The A-listers were spotted smiling and chatting during lunch with a group of friends and everyone is jumping to the same conclusion.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/01\/imago420138517-scaled.jpg” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”CA: 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party Sofia Vergara walking on the red carpet at the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party held at the” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] Only three weeks into 2025 and, for a minute at least, it looked like we had our first surprise celebrity couple of the year. Racing driver Lewis Hamilton and Modern Family<\/em> star Sofia Vergara were spotted out for \u2018a two hour\u2019 lunch with a group of friends and, as per usual, the internet has gone up in flames with theories.<\/p>\n The paparazzi got so close to the window of the restaurant they were eating in that they might as well have pulled up a chair. Hamilton and Vergara were then spotted smiling outside the restaurant, Hamilton in a furry bucket hat and Vergara in dark sunglasses, before getting in their respective cars. In optimistic internet speak, this was translated into them \u2018looking smitten\u2019.<\/p>\n It makes sense that this new friendship would pique interest as, given their respective career choices, it\u2019s unlikely they were grabbing lunch to talk about work. Nor have they been known to hang out in the past. Unless, of course, Hamilton is looking to pivot into film or Vergara sees a future for herself at Formula 1.<\/p>\n However, a \u2018source\u2019 has since reminded us all not to believe everything we read online and told Us Weekly that the meet up was \u2018merely a casual lunch with a big group of friends in a group setting\u2019 and \u2018by no means a date\u2019.<\/p>\n Whatever it was, the outing has put a new prospective couple on our 2025 bingo card \u2013 even if they are just friends for now. Vergara has been largely single sine her divorce in July 2023 from her husband of seven years, Joe Manganiello.<\/p>\n \u2018We have made the difficult decision to divorce,\u2019 they said in a joint statement at the time. \u2018As two people that love and care for one another very much, we politely ask for respect of our privacy at this time as we navigate this new phase of our lives.\u2019<\/p>\n According to a source at the time, the former couple were no longer on the same page when it came to their relationship. \u2018She would rather go out with friends, and he would rather stay home, so they wouldn\u2019t spend a lot of time together,\u2019 the insider explained.<\/p>\n However, in January 2024 Vergara offered her own take on the separation. \u2018I\u2019m newly divorced from my second husband, who I was with for 10 years,\u2019 she told the Spanish newspaper El Pais<\/em>. \u2018He wanted to have kids, and I didn\u2019t want to be an old mom.\u2019<\/p>\n Vergara already has a son, aged 33, from her first marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Joe Gonzalez. She was 18 when they got married and it lasted two years. \u2018I feel it\u2019s not fair to the baby,\u2019 she continued. \u2018I respect whoever does it, but that\u2019s not for me anymore. I had a son at 19, who is now 32, and I\u2019m ready to be a grandmother, not a mother.\u2019<\/p>\n Manganiello, on the other hand, has already moved on and is dating the 35-year-old actress Caitlin O\u2019Connor. They have spoken openly about their plans to have children in the near future.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] It\u2019s clear that whoever Vergara ends up with next will need to be on the same page as her when it comes to having more children. \u2018If love comes along, he has to come with [his own] children. I\u2019m almost in menopause,\u2019 she added. \u2018When my son becomes a dad, let him bring the baby to me for a while and then I\u2019ll give it back to him and go on with my life.\u2019 A respectable attitude, indeed.<\/p>\n As for Vergara\u2019s post-divorce dating history, in October 2023 she was linked to the Beverly Hills-based orthopaedic surgeon, Justin Saliman, but the relationship did not last long. Last year, she told Us Weekly she was \u2018kind of single\u2019 at the moment. Most recently at the Golden Globes, Vergara told Access Hollywood<\/em> she was manifesting \u2018health, money, a boyfriend, or a lover, maybe\u2019 in 2025.<\/p>\n Speaking of potential lovers, Hamilton is currently single having famously dated Nicole Scherzinger on and off for seven years before splitting in 2015. He has also been linked to Rihanna and Shakira.<\/p>\n While they might be compatible in that department, it doesn\u2019t sound like Vergara and Hamilton would make a perfect match long term. In September 2024, Hamilton told The Sunday Times<\/em>, \u2018One day [I want kids]. I wouldn\u2019t be able to do what I do to the level that I do it today with that. One of my best friends has just had a kid and I\u2019m seeing how manic it is \u2013 and my nieces and nephew are a handful.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018There will be a time and a place for it, and I can\u2019t wait for that part. But right now I have some work to do.\u2019 Hamilton is still very much in the throes of his career, having won the 2024 British Grand Prix just last summer, so it doesn\u2019t sound like he wants to start a family immediately, but he might once his career starts to slow down.<\/p>\n Meanwhile Vergara is full speed ahead. Last year, she played notorious drug lord Griselda Blanco in the hit Netflix series, and she is reportedly working on a pitch for a new Miami-based series with the Griselda<\/em> creative team too.<\/p>\n Alas, perhaps it was just a friendly lunch after all. \u00a0<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: IMAGO<\/b><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is Sofia Vergara gearing up to become a Formula 1 WAG? 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