Who Is Leah Remini’s Husband? What She’s Shared About Angelo Pagan

For 21 years, Leah Remini and Angelo Pagán have been an on-and-off-screen pair. Married since 2003, they’ve typically shared the display screen in a number of of her sitcoms and a TLC actuality TV sequence.

Remini and Pagán introduced in a joint Instagram put up on Aug. 29 that they have been splitting up.

“This determination got here after loads of thought and care, and as exhausting as divorce is, we’re approaching this with a constructive outlook as a result of we all know it’s what’s finest for us,” the couple wrote alongside two then-and-now footage of themselves collectively.

As their relationship strikes into a brand new part, let’s look again at what we find out about Remini’s soon-to-be ex.

Angelo Pagán and Leah Remini shared the display screen

They weren’t fairly co-stars, however the husband-and-wife duo have been typically on set collectively.

Like Remini, Pagán has been a performer for many of his life: The pair met when he was performing on the Cuban membership/restaurant El Floridita in Los Angeles in 1996, one thing Remini advised Redbook journal in 2010 was “love at first sight.”

As soon as he and Remini linked, there all the time gave the impression to be a visitor function for him on her exhibits. Through the years, he appeared sporadically on CBS’ “The King of Queens,” “Kevin Can Wait” and “Fired Up” along with his spouse.

Additionally they filmed two seasons of TLC’s actuality present “Leah Remini: It’s All Relative,” which ran from 2014 to 2015.

After they met initially, he was a singer and he nonetheless performs now, co-hosting exhibits round Los Angeles. Pagán’s Instagram profile at present lists his occupations as “actor, singer, producer and entrepreneur” and “the worlds biggest dad!”

Through the years, Pagán has appeared on sequence like “Bosch: Legacy,” “Shameless,” “The Final Ship,” in addition to in films like “Garlic & Gunpowder” (2017) and “seventh and Union” (2021).

He is additionally in enterprise with the household

Pagán co-owns a restaurant in Studio Metropolis, California, known as Vivian’s Millennium Café, with Remini’s mom and stepfather. The café was featured on the household’s TLC present.

On the web site, Pagán’s bio reads, “When he’s not performing your favourite salsa music or {golfing} along with your favourite celebrities, you will discover him right here at Vivian’s consuming the two+2+2 Combo!”

What was his function on ‘King of Queens’?

Showing in a complete of six episodes, Pagán performed a number of characters on “The King of Queens”: as a buyer in Season 1; then as Rico, a co-worker of  Doug’s (Kevin James) at IPS in Season 3 and 4; as Dr. Garcia in Season 6; and Hector in Seasons 7 and 9.

Angelo has kids from 2 relationships

Born and raised within the Bronx, Pagán’s household hails from Puerto Rico. He a has a daughter — Sofia Bella, born in 2004 — with Remini.

Pagán posted an Instagram video from Sofia’s promenade celebration in 2022, tearful at her shifting on to the following stage of her life. “So happy with my lovely little candy angel @sofiaapagann ,” he wrote within the caption. “(M)ama killed it with the festivities ! No person throws a celebration like @leahremini ! #off2college“

He additionally has three full-grown sons from an earlier relationship, per his Instagram: Angelo Jr., Alex and Nico.

They’d a ‘exhausting time’ firstly of their relationship

In her 2015 memoir “Troublemaker: Surviving Hollywood and Scientology,” Remini known as Pagán a “serial cheater.”

“In 1996 the universe supplied me with Angelo Pagán. A person with a historical past of dishonest, and three youngsters. Good. Now, I’ll preface this by saying this isn’t a love story. I imply, it’s a narrative about love — simply not the sort that you simply hope to inform your youngsters in the future,” she wrote in her memoir.

However she known as the connection “immediate magic,” and mentioned she fell “head over heels.”

Then, Remini realized Pagán was married. Remini recalled what occurred subsequent in her memoir. On the urging of the Church of Scientology, of which she was then a member, Remini requested Pagán to reconcile along with his spouse and get counseling. Remini additionally needed to meet along with his spouse and come clean with her actions.

Due to counseling, Pagán mentioned he realized he was “residing a lie.”

“He had already advised his spouse he was leaving,” the memoir reads. After, Pagán and Remini obtained collectively and married six years later. Remini parted from the Church of Scientology in 2013.

She mirrored on that point of their marriage in interviews, too.

“We did have a tough time firstly,” Remini mentioned on “RuPaul” in 2019. “We didn’t meet underneath the perfect of circumstances. We obtained counseling, and it was not a straightforward highway … however the reality of the matter is, he’s my rock.”