Joe Manganiello and Sofia Vergara are dating. Photos: David Gabber / PRPhotos.com; Marco Sagliocco / PRPhotos.com
By Laura Seaman
True Blood actor Joe Manganiello and Modern Family star Sofia Vergara are the hottest new celebrity couple. The two met at the White House Correspondents Dinner while Vergara’s engagement to Nick Loeb was still on. “It’s very, very new,” an insider tells UsMagazine.com. “They’re having fun and getting to know each other.” The famous couple made celebrity news after being spotted at a diner in Louisiana in May kissing and taking pictures with fans.
How do you know when you’re ready to move on to a new relationship and love?
Audra Marie and Joe Manganiello. Photo: Tommaso Boddi / PR Photos
Joe Manganiello and fiancé Audra Marie won’t be leaving anyone out of their wedding festivities, including the entire cast of True Blood, according to People. Manganiello, who plays a werewolf on HBO’s hit vampire series, is engaged to model/actress Audra Marie. After announcing his intentions to invite each True Blood cast member at the PGA Awards in Beverly Hills, he said, “I love them. They’re like my family.” He also credits the show for making the wedding proposal possible, as he used his first check as a series regular to purchase a ring for his lovely bride-to-be. With vampires and werewolves in the same room, this should be an interesting wedding.
Audra Marie and Joe Manganiello. Photo: Tommaso Boddi / PR Photos
True love has found True Blood star Joe Manganiello. According to People, the actor proposed to actress/model Audra Marie while on vacation in Italy. But this couple’s romance didn’t start off easily. “She wouldn’t go out with me for six months,” Manganiello told People in September. “We started dating a few months before I got cast [on True Blood].” Now the couple are anything but coy, confessing exactly what attracts them to each other. Manganiello says, “She’s sweet … nice. And she makes crazy English breakfasts,” while Marie loves Maganiello’s “sense of humor, his work ethic and how humble he is with everything that has gone on.”
Audra Marie and Joe Manganiello. Photo: Izumi Hasegawa / PR Photos
True Blood star Joe Manganiello, who plays a hunky werewolf on HBO’s hit vampire series, jokingly announced that he sometimes brings his beastly role home with him to his girlfriend, Audra Marie. “I sniff you a lot. And I growl a lot when you ask me to do things, like clean up,” Manganiello said to Marie at the preview of Boardwalk Empire. Marie doesn’t seem to mind, according People, although she does draw the line at her beau coming home from the set in full werewolf makeup. How can you make your career a positive part of your relationship?