Ryan Seacrest’s standing as a long-term bachelor has led to loads of headlines through the years as he’s navigated relationship, household life and stress to calm down.
The American Idol host has had a sequence of high-profile romances, even whereas attempting to maintain a lot of his private life personal. He dated mannequin Shana Wall from 2003 to 2005 and spent three years with Julianne Hough. Seacrest has additionally been romantically linked to Shayna Taylor, Renée Corridor, Aubrey Paige and extra through the years.
Whereas he’s by no means really been married, he’s had some shut calls through the years — and contemplated his personal future alongside the way in which.
Preserve scrolling to be taught what Seacrest has stated about marriage, having a household and the whole lot in between.
Media royalty. Ryan Seacrest has dominated the leisure trade for greater than 20 years — each in entrance of and behind the digicam. Born in Atlanta in 1974, the Emmy-winning producer started his first radio internship whereas nonetheless in highschool. After graduating, he studied journalism on the College of Georgia, however he dropped out […]
Being Single
American Idol host Ryan Seacrest Kevork Djansezian/Getty Pictures
Seacrest cracked a joke about being single throughout season 23 of American Idol, reacting to a efficiency by contestant Thunderstorm Artis.
“Nicely completed,” he stated on the Might 2025 episode. “It’s a lovely music with lovely lyrics. I simply printed them out backstage. ‘Your inexperienced eyes are tender just like the summer time and your contact can put out the embers of my burning coronary heart from that grey December.’ I’ve by no means been extra depressed to be single than proper now on this second.”
Artis carried out the music “Out of the Blue” as a Mom’s Day tribute to his spouse, Religion.
Having Youngsters
Seacrest defined in a 2021 interview with the Wall Road Journal that he finally desires children — however for now, he’s targeted on dwelling within the current.
“I haven’t even gone down that path, which is nuts at my age,” he stated. “I believe within the final 12 months, it’s turn out to be clear to me that sure, I do wish to do this. … I wish to be accessible and current.”
Ryan Seacrest has been notoriously personal about his relationships, however he let down his partitions slightly with ex-girlfriend Aubrey Paige. Us Weekly solely confirmed the American Idol host’s romance with the mannequin, whose full title is Aubrey Paige Petcosky, in June 2021. “[They are] very glad collectively and doing nice,” an insider informed Us […]
In the meantime, Seacrest stays shut along with his household, which incorporates his sister, Meredith, and mom, Constance Marie Zullinger. He stated in 2022 that the relationships he already has are sufficient.
“I’m glad. I’m glad within the current second,” he informed Lisa Rinna throughout an episode of Dwell With Kelly and Ryan. “I don’t take into consideration the rest. Why push it? I believe having children on the proper time could be nice. I’ve a incredible household, a really small household. I’ve a niece, [my sister] Meredith has a daughter. My mother and father have been married 52 and a half years, in order that’s a excessive bar. In order that’s in my head.”
He added that his mother has “given up” on wanting grandchildren from him.
Nonetheless Time to Get Married
Ryan Seacrest internet hosting Dick Clark New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve Jeff Neira / ©ABC
Seacrest mentioned the inevitable proposals that he would see within the crowd in Instances Sq. on New 12 months’s Eve throughout a December 2024 look on Good Morning America.
“There’s nonetheless time for me,” he joked of an eventual journey down the marriage aisle.
ABC correspondent Will Reeve replied, “You’ve acquired this, Ryan. We received’t rush you, although.”
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‘How Do I Do That?’
Seacrest informed listeners to his radio present, On Air With Ryan Seacrest, in October 2020 that watching his buddies’ children get excited for Halloween helped him resolve that he desires to be a dad someday.
“It was bizarre as a result of Halloween modified me,” he stated. “I stated just a few weeks in the past, ‘I’m not so into it,’ after which I noticed a few of my buddies’ children get enthusiastic about it. Then I see my niece, and she or he’s so lovely. Then I see you [Sisanie] with twins, and I see how glad you might be, and I might by no means in one million years — really should you requested me once I was 40 just a few years in the past ‘Would you like children?’ [I’d say], ‘I don’t know’ — and now, swiftly, all I can take into consideration is, ‘Wow, how do I do this? I’m getting older. What are the choices?’”
Nearly Getting Engaged
Kelly Ripa and Ryan Seacrest on the set of Dwell With Kelly and Ryan Jeff Neira / ©ABC
Cohost Kelly Ripa requested Seacrest on a Might 2017 episode of Dwell With Kelly and Ryan whether or not he has ever been engaged. Whereas the Wheel of Fortune host stated he had not, he revealed he as soon as got here shut.
“I did get shut and I didn’t do it and it was the suitable transfer,” he defined. “However I really like the concept — and I do know you’re going to ask me — of marriage as a result of my mother and father have been married for 47 years, and so I’ve this factor — and also you’ve been married 21.”
Following His Dad and mom’ Instance
If Seacrest does resolve to calm down, he has already set some fairly excessive requirements for himself within the romance division. He defined that he views his personal mother and father and their marriage for instance to comply with, and the years he has spent trying as much as them has set “a excessive bar.”
“My mother and father [have] been married for 47 years, and so I’ve this factor …” He defined to Ripa in Might 2017. “The reality is, I’ve this factor that I don’t wish to screw it up and quite a lot of occasions, they get screwed up and so I determine, the longer I wait, the older I’ll be, the nearer to loss of life I’m, so I can get it in, and never screw it up.”