Joe Manganiello and fiancé Caitlin O’Connor have traded their lives in Los Angeles for someplace close to and pricey to their hearts.
“I imply, L.A. has been each of our houses for over 20 years,” O’Connor, 36, mentioned of her and Manganiello, 48, in an interview with Individuals revealed on Thursday, December 4. “I used to be born in L.A., however raised in Pittsburgh, so we’re each from the identical hometown.”
O’Connor confirmed that she and the Magic Mike actor not too long ago relocated from Los Angeles to the suburbs of Pittsburgh. O’Connor defined that she and Manganiello have been excited to be nearer to their roots.
“That’s what we actually join on, you understand, we share the identical upbringing, the identical hometown information. And that’s what actually connects us as a pair,” she defined. “So it’s stunning to be again house collectively.”
O’Connor added that the choice to maneuver was not a “sudden” one for the couple.
“We have been serious about it for some time,” she defined.
The actress additionally gushed about her and Manganiello’s neighborhood, evaluating it to a “postcard.”
“I’ve by no means been in a extra stunning neighborhood in Pittsburgh,” she mentioned. “It’s simply idyllic.”
O’Connor mirrored on how she and Manganiello have tailored to the change and surroundings particularly throughout the colder months.
“I imply, I watched Joe shovel snow in our driveway for two-and-a-half hours yesterday. And it was the most popular factor I’ve ever seen,” she quipped.
Manganiello and O’Connor linked in September 2023 after assembly at a post-premiere occasion for her HBO sequence Profitable Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty. Their assembly got here two months after Manganiello cut up from ex-wife Sofia Vergara.
“We now have made the troublesome resolution to divorce,” Manganiello and Vergara, 52, wrote in a joint assertion through Instagram on the time. “As two people who love and take care of each other very a lot, we politely ask for respect of our privateness presently as we navigate this new section of our lives.”
Us Weekly confirmed Manganiello and Vergara’s divorce was finalized in April 2024.
Three months after their preliminary assembly, Manganiello and O’Connor made their official purple carpet debut as a pair on the Youngsters of Armenia Fund (COAF) gala in December 2023.
“Joe and Caitlin are each so easygoing that they work very well collectively,” a supply completely advised Us of the couple’s connection on the time, whereas including that O’Connor just isn’t a “high-maintenance” particular person. “She’s not an enormous drinker or a celebration lady.”
Earlier this 12 months, a further insider teased to Us that wedding ceremony bells could possibly be in Manganiello and O’Connor’s future. The supply defined that the twosome are “very sturdy collectively and severe a few future.”
“They wish to have a household,” the supply advised Us in July. “She needs to be a mother, and he’s open to being a father.”
In October, the pair introduced that they have been engaged after two years of courting.
“💍 June twenty fourth, 2025 💍,” Manganiello and O’Connor wrote in a joint Instagram submit on the time that featured them with their chihuahua, Bubbles, and O’Connor’s ring on show.
