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What Happened to ‘The Bachelor’ Star Charlie O’Connell? Inside His Life Today
Before 2005, Charlie O’Connell was best known as Jerry O’Connell‘s brother. He was also an actor, with roles in television shows including Sliders and Crossing Jordan, and films such as Cruel Intentions and Dude, Where’s My Car? Then, he was thrust into the spotlight in a major way as the lead for Season 7 of The Bachelor.
O’Connell picked Sarah Brice as his final lady at the last rose ceremony. Although they didn’t get engaged, they left the show in a relationship. Scroll down for updates on what happened to them and what O’Connell is up to now.
Are Charlie O’Connell and Sarah Brice still together?
No, O’Connell and Brice broke up. They were together on-and-off for five years before splitting for good in 2010.
“I think it was a mutual breakup,” he told People. “The thing is that we dated for five years and were just arguing over the same things and stuff like that. And then eventually you’ve got to go your separate ways.”
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The two had previously split in 2007 before reconciling and giving their relationship another shot, but it simply didn’t work out.
What is Charlie O’Connell doing now?
O’Connell mostly lives his life out of the public eye these days. His last television role was in 2014’s The Haunted Hathaways, and his last film was 2019’s Staged Killer.
Is Charlie O’Connell married?
Yes, O’Connell has found love again. In 2018, he tied the knot with Playboy Playmate Anna Sophia Berglund, who is 11 years his junior. The couple got married in May 2018, just two months after they confirmed their engagement. They wed in Montauk, New York.
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O’Connell and Breglund reportedly met at a party in 2010.
Does Charlie O’Connell have children?
Yes, O’Connell and Berglund have one child. Their daughter, Quinn, was born in 2020.
“My favorite part of 2020 was welcoming my daughter into the world,” Berglund wrote on Instagram at the end of that year.
O’Connell is also an uncle to his brother and Rebecca Romijn‘s twins. In 2018, O’Connell’s brother opened up about the former Bachelor lead’s experience on the show. “It did get pretty stressful toward the end, I could tell, for my brother. It definitely peaks into a stressful situation,” Charlie told People.
