18-7-2023 (LOS ANGELES) Hollywood power couple Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello are set to divorce after seven years of marriage. The Modern Family actress, 51, and Joe, 46, tied the knot in a star-studded ceremony in Palm Beach in 2015, but have now confirmed the “difficult” decision to part ways. The couple released a statement that read, “We have made the difficult decision to divorce. As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.”
Sofia, who has a son named Manolo with her first husband Joe Gonzalez, is currently celebrating her 51st birthday in Italy with friends, without Joe or her wedding ring, according to Page Six. A source revealed that the couple had been “growing apart for a while now and are taking some distance from each other to contemplate their future.”
The couple was last seen together last month in Hoboken, New Jersey, where Sofia visited Joe on the set of his new project Nonnas. Sofia has since posted a series of selfies online as she lives it up on her extended birthday bash.
Their wedding was attended by a host of A-listers, including Sofia’s Modern Family co-stars Ariel Winter, Ed O’Neill, Eric Stonestreet, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Julie Bowen, Sarah Hyland, and Ty Burrell, as well as Joe’s True Blood co-stars Anna Paquin and Stephen Moyer. Reese Witherspoon and Channing Tatum were also in attendance.
The couple met in 2014 at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner through Sofia’s former co-star Jesse Tyler. At the time, Sofia was engaged to businessman Nick Loeb but broke off the engagement shortly after meeting Joe. The couple fell in love quickly and tied the knot in a grand ceremony the following year.
Joe once said of his wife, “I knew pretty quickly that I could trust her, and she knew pretty quickly that she could trust me. Once you have that, you don’t let go of it.”
