Southern Charm’s Craig Conover Recalls Sofia Vergara Dating Whitney Sudler-Smith’s Cousin Nick Loeb
24.07.2023 - 22:43
/ usmagazine.com
How’s this for random AF: Craig Conover once spent Easter Sunday with Sofia Vergara — because his Southern Charm costar Whitney Sudler-Smith is related to her ex-fiancé Nick Loeb.
Conover, 34, revealed the surprising tidbit while talking about Vergara’s split from Joe Manganiello on a recent episode of his and Austen Kroll’s “Pillows and Beer” podcast. (Us Weekly confirmed that Manganiello, 46, filed for legal separation from the Modern Family alum, 51, on Wednesday, July 19, listing the date of their separation as July 2.)
“The Sofia Vergara thing, which I don’t understand — I just remember when she used to date Whitney’s cousin and we all had Easter at Whitney’s house,” Conover told Kroll, 36.
Though Conover didn’t mention “Whitney’s cousin” by name, he was referring to Loeb, 47, who popped the question to Vergara in 2012 after two years of dating. (Per FITS News, the Easter outing took place in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2013.)
Though Loeb and Vergara called it quits in 2014, they were locked in a messy legal battle for years over the custody rights of their frozen pre-embryos, which were created when they underwent in-vitro fertilization in 2013. Seven years after their split, in 2021, Vergara — who is the mother of adult son Manolo —won the case, which blocked Loeb from using the pre-embryos to create a child. At the time, Vergara had been married to Manganiello for six years.
When speaking about Vergara and Manganiello’s split on “Pillows and Beer,” Kroll said he was “saddened” by the couple’s decision to split.
“They just seemed super cute, like, super good … and then you fast-forward and they’re getting [divorced]. And I’m like, is anybody safe? Is anybody safe out there?” Kroll said. “I just thought they were just