Five Things You Didnt Know About Eddie Cibrian

Publish date: 2024-06-17

Eddie Cibrian at Fashion's Night Out at Bloomingdale's

Eddie Cibrian has been acting for more than two decades. He has appeared in several television shows and films, including a starring role in the crime themed series, CSI: Miami. However, thanks to a string of highly publicized relationships, his acting career has become somewhat overshadowed by his reality TV career. Now 41 years-old, Cibrian’s failed relationship with Brandi Glanville thrust him into the spotlight after Glanville signed on to be a main cast member of Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Due to his behavior, which has often be labeled disrespectful, Cibrian has become somewhat of a villain, and many Real Housewives of Beverly Hills fans have written him off as a jerk. However, Cibrian has taken the criticism in stride and has not seemed to let negative public opinions affect his life. Here are five things you didn’t know about Eddie Cibrian.

5. Eddie Cibrian was married to Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, Brandi Glanville.

In 2001, Eddie Cibrian married former model, Brandi Glanville. In 2011, the couple’s marriage, and subsequent divorce, were brought to light when Glanville became one of the main cast members on Bravo’s Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. The couple ended their relationship after Cibrian’s affair with country singer LeAnn Rimes was made public. Since their divorce Glanville and Cibrian (now married to Rimes) have had several very public feuds. In 2010, Cibrian made a statement requesting that his ex-wife stop bringing up his affair. He told reporters: “I can’t change the past and I’m truly sorry that people got hurt along the way but not everything reported in the media is reality and continuing to rehash things publicly only makes it more difficult for everyone to heal. I hope for the sake of our children we can all move forward and heal privately. I wish their mother nothing but the best.” During an interview in 2014, Glanville expressed that her, Rimes, and Cibrian had made somewhat of a mends. However, she stated: “I see [LeAnn Rimes] all the time. I drop the kids off at their house; we’re always around each other. I really am at peace with it. It’s been five years; my kids really love her. … I don’t care. [I still believe, though] once a cheater, always a cheater.” However, Rimes seems unbothered by all of the negative remarks made about her husband. In 2014, the couple was given their own reality show on VH1 called LeAnn and Eddie.

4. Eddie Cibrian was the member of a band.

Although Cibrian is best known for his acting (and his relationships with Glanville and Rimes) he was also part of soul-pop band called 3Deep. The band, which was formed in 1998, comprised of three members. 3Deep released two albums before disbanded in 2001, and although they were relatively unknown in the United States, they were became very popular in Canada. During an interview in 2013, Cibrian’s wife, LeAnn Rimes, spilled the beans on his musical past. Cibrian chimed in and stated: “It was in the late ’90s. I was the dude who didn’t sing. You know the one: I was the dude that was the talker. Like the rapper in Boyz II Men.” Hopefully by now he has learned that there was never a rapper in Boyz II Men.

3. Eddie Cibrian had his first TV role in Saved by the Bell: The College Years.

in 1993, Cibrian made his first on-screen appearance during an episode of Saved by the Bell: The College Years. The show, a spin-off of the original series, follow several of the main characters as they entered college. Although Cibrian only had a minor role in the episode, his appearance helped him earn a recurring role in the soap opera, The Young and the Restless.

2. Eddie Cibrian once dated actress Scheana Marie.

During his marriage to Brandi Glanville, Cibrian’s affair with LeAnn Rimes was not his first transgression. Actress and cast member of Bravo’s Vanderpump Rules, Scheana Marie, claims that she was having an affair with Cibrian while he was married to Glanville, and while he was dating Rimes. During an interview, Scheana Marie opened up about her situation with Cibrian and stated: “Seven years ago I met Eddie, and six or eight months go by and I find out that he’s married and I call him out. He lied at first about it and then he admitted it. So I stopped talking to him for a long time,” she tells Us. “Then I run into him one night at my work. He comes by and wants to explain himself and ask me out for drinks. He says he’s now separated from his wife…and I’m like, ‘Okay, whatever, I’ll go with it.’ But come to find out shortly after the encounter that we had, there’s a story posted the next day saying that he was with LeAnn and he was still married…It was just a mess. I ended things there, I stopped talking to him, and I’ve never talked to him again…”

1. Eddie Cibrian is of Cuban descent.

Eddie Cibrian has Cuban ancestry on both sides of his family. The California native has shared that he is fluent in Spanish, and during an interview he said that LeAnn Rimes “loves” when he speaks Spanish to her.

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