Nia Vardalos, 62, from My Big Fat Greek Wedding is doing great with her new boyfriend.
The two were seen side by side at the 2024 Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles on Saturday night in a rare red carpet move.
The two walk the red carpet together only once a year.
Her boyfriend, who was secret for over a year, is Spiros Katsagans, a resident of Athens, Greece. They met in 2022 at an outdoor restaurant when she was finishing filming My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
This comes six years after she separated from her husband of more than 20 years, actor Ian Gomez, with whom she has a teenage daughter.
Nia Vardalos from My Big Fat Greek Wedding is going strong with her new boyfriend. The two were seen side by side at the 2024 Academy Museum Gala at the Academy of Motion Picture Museum in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
Her boyfriend, who was secret for over a year, is Spiros Katsagans, a resident of Athens, Greece. They met in 2022 at an outdoor restaurant when she was finishing filming My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
DailyMail.com reached out to Nia’s rep for more information about her boyfriend.
The comedian, actress and producer smiled radiantly next to her man.
The movie icon wore a gold/yellow satin dress and added yellow gold jewelry. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white shirt.
However, this is not her first red carpet.
They were next to each other at the 3rd Annual Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 3, 2023 in Los Angeles, but they were not affectionate and he seemed to be more of a “friend” than an interest. loving.
In September 2023, she told People that she was in a relationship and lives in Athens, Greece.
They met “in the most romantic way possible” in 2022, he told the site.
‘We met on a full moon night in an open-air restaurant in Greece. “It’s like I wrote a movie and then I went into it,” the Hollywood veteran said.
He was in Greece after finishing filming My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3.
The comedian, actress and producer smiled radiantly next to her man. The movie icon wore a gold/yellow satin dress while adding yellow gold jewelry. He was wearing a black tuxedo with a white shirt.
They were last seen on a carpet at The Hollywood Reporter’s Women In Entertainment Gala at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills in December 2023.
And the timing was excellent because I was already done with the work.
“I think when you’re filming you have to be like a Barbie doll, just soft down there,” she joked.
‘You don’t have any sexuality. No.
‘When you’re shooting a movie, you’re just going through it, you’re just doing your job. There is no crying. That’s why I don’t believe in relationships during the filming of a movie,” he added.
At that time she did not want to name him.
“I’ve learned to keep things private,” he offered.
“The relationship I have now, I’m trying to keep it as private as possible to preserve its special character.”
They were side by side at the third annual Academy Museum Gala at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on December 3, 2023 in Los Angeles.
She separated from her husband, actor Ian Gomez, in 2018 after more than two decades of marriage.
They share their teenage daughter Ilaria with their ex.
After the split, she took some time off from dating.
‘So I tried not to think of myself that way, because no teenager wants to hear or know what their mother is doing. I think a teenager should be self-centered and spend his life thinking only about himself,’ Vardalos said.
The former Gómez de Vardalos, who played in the first two films, did not want to return.
She was not hurt but rather “perplexed,” she said.