Professional athletes are usually the most famous people in any room,
but these former jocks weren't even the most famous person in their own bedrooms.
Cole Tucker is relatively new to Major League Baseball. He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Pirates
in 2019 and spent four years in a part time role there before the team released him in June.
He’s now in the Arizona Diamondbacks minor league system,
but with a career batting average barely above .200,
he might be making more headlines in the world of entertainment than he is in the sports section.
Tucker and actor Vanessa Hudgens went Instagram official on Valentine's Day in 2021, when the
"High School Musical" actor shared a photo of the two kissing. The Daily Mail says their romance
began back in November 2020, just 10 months after Hudgens split from "Elvis" actor Austin Butler.
Since putting their love on display,
Hudgens has posted pictures with Tucker regularly on her social media,
including of the two celebrating their one year anniversary and the actor attending his games.
She told Entertainment Tonight's Katie Krause about the odd way they met, reminiscing:
"Me and Cole met on a Zoom meditation group. What? Very random."
The two are still going strong, and Tucker attended the premiere of Hudgens' movie,
"Tick, Tick, Boom!" in November 2021 and appeared by her side at the SAG Awards in February 2022.
Mike Caussin's name might ring a bell for country music fans.
The former NFL tight end was married to Jana Kramer from 2015
until 2021, and their relationship made headlines for his many infidelities.
Caussin had a short-lived career in the NFL. He was an
undrafted free agent when he was picked up by the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2010.
He didn’t play in a game until 2011, when he made six appearances for the Buffalo Bills.
He was waived by the Bills in 2013 and had brief stints with Minnesota
and Washington before retiring from football the following year.
Caussin and Kramer got married in May 2015, but by August 2016 the couple announced
their separation after Caussin admitted to cheating and went to rehab for sex addiction.
Kramer and Caussin managed to work through their issues and renewed their vows in
December 2017 — but it was all over again by April 2021. Kramer told US Weekly that
Caussin's constant cheating made her feel unsettled throughout the relationship:
"Repeated infidelity is very tough, so, umm,
any time there's infidelity there's gaslighting and there's manipulation."
Jessica Simpson and Eric Johnson got married in 2014 after having been engaged for four
years. Simpson fans are well aware of her marriage to former boy band star
Nick Lachey. That marriage ended in 2006, but luckily, the singer got a second chance at love.
Johnson is a former NFL player who spent most of his career with the San Francisco 49ers
and ended his time in the league with the New Orleans Saints after the 2007 season.
Johnson wasn't Simpson's first NFL beau, though, as she dated former Dallas Cowboys quarterback
Tony Romo from 2007 until 2009. But Johnson seemed to be the perfect match for Simpson, and the "Open
Book" author celebrated being together with her husband for 10 years, sharing on Instagram,
"He knocked on my dreamy cottage door (sigh), I let him in and never let him leave."
Before they wed, the couple welcomed two kids, a daughter, Maxwell, and a son, Ace. In 2019, the
couple introduced their third child, a daughter named Birdie. In 2020 Simpson told US Weekly:
"In terms of my marriage to Eric, I have never felt more myself or
more free. Eric and I have a true mind, body [and] soul connection."
Danny Amendola bounced around as a wide receiver in the NFL
before retiring in July of 2022, playing for four different teams
since 2017. He began his career with the Dallas Cowboys in 2008 but has also
been a member of the Los Angeles Rams, Miami Dolphins, Detroit Lions, and Houston Texans.
Although he does have two Super Bowl wins under his belt with the Tom Brady-led Patriots,
he's made more headlines for having dated model and influencer Olivia Culpo.
Amendola was playing for New England when he began dating the former Miss Universe in early
2016. However, the couple would be on-again, off-again for two years. One of their first
breakups occurred around March 2018, when Amendola signed with the Dolphins. According to Us Weekly,
Culpo was not in any rush to move to Miami, but by June 2018, the two seemed to have
rekindled their relationship. In October 2018, things seemed to hit a rough patch
when Amendola was seen with another woman, but by December, he and Culpo were back on.
Things finally ended for good in April 2019, when Amendola confirmed he was single on
Instagram and blasted his ex's lifestyle. In a since-deleted post quoted by US Weekly he wrote,
"Olivia chooses and wants to be noticed on the internet and in Hollywood to make money.
Where as [sic] the cost of fame in the world doesn't appeal to me."
Their not-so-nice split didn't seem to turn Culpo off from dating NFL
players – lately she's been spending time with the Carolina Panthers' Christian McCaffrey.
Kris Humphries' career in the NBA was tarnished when he famously
married — and quickly split from — Kim Kardashian in August 2011.
After their televised marriage ended, Humphries bounced around the league,
playing for four different teams in four years.
In March 2019, after being waived by the Philadelphia 76ers,
Humphries announced his retirement. In an interview with The Players Tribune,
the former NBA star admitted that his romance with Kardashian was tough on his career.
"I was getting booed so hard in Philly, and I thought ... 'Why exactly are they booing me,
though? Is it because I'm That Guy from TV? ... Is it because they think I disrespected the game of
basketball?' The last one killed me, because all I've ever wanted to be known for was basketball."
After 72 days of marriage, Kardashian filed for divorce,
though Humphries took it a step further, filing for an annulment on grounds that the
marriage was a total fraud. Both Kris and Kim took heat for the short-lived union,
and she told Oprah Winfrey she knew right away it wasn't going to work out:
"You know when you just have that feeling, when you're like, 'He's the one?'
Once we moved in, I knew that he was NOT the one."
He has since moved on from both basketball and his
infamous failed marriage and has moved back to his home state of Minnesota.
Scotty McKnight was a star wide receiver at the University of Colorado
and was drafted in 2011 by the New York Jets, though he was waived a year later.
Although his career as an NFL player was cut short, he still made headlines for
dating "Nashville" actor Hayden Panettierre at the time. She told Us Weekly in October 2011,
"I've always been that girl who has a lot of dude friends. I'm into sports,
so Scotty and I have a lot in common."
But, just like his football career,
his relationship with Panettierre would be short-lived. The couple called it quits in
December 2012 after dating for more than a year. Their relationship began just one
month after Panettierre split with Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko.
Panettierre and Klitchko had a long term on-and-off-relationship. The actor and
fighter were first linked in 2009, but split in 2011. They later reconciled in 2013,
got engaged, and welcomed a daughter, Kaya, in 2014.
However, they called it quits again in August 2018, per Us Weekly.
As for McKnight, he is currently in a relationship with wellness founder
Tayla Burke and the couple welcomed a daughter named Aspen in March 2022.
Kroy Biermann was an outside linebacker for the Atlanta Falcons for seven years
before hanging up his helmet in 2016. During his time with the team, he met his now-wife,
Kim Zolciak-Biermann, who starred in Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta."
The pair first met in August 2010 at a charity event. The former athlete appeared to take a
liking to Zolciak-Biermann, and by January 2011 they were engaged. They married in
November 2011 and are still going strong. In fact, Zolciak-Biermann's two daughters from a
previous relationship, Brielle and Ariana, were adopted by Biermann and took on his last name.
Biermann and Zolciak-Biermann got their own reality show,
"Don't Be Tardy," which first aired in 2012 and ran for eight seasons.
They welcomed sons KJ in 2011 and Kash in 2012, and twins Kaia and Kane in 2013.
The couple celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in 2021.
Zolciak-Biermann celebrated with a sweet post on Instagram, saying:
"My ride or die, my best friend,
the only person I could smother with a pillow one second then snuggle the next!"
Cutter Dykstra followed in his father's footsteps to become a professional baseball player.
His dad, Lenny, played for the New York Mets and the Philadelphia Phillies in
the '80s and was a three-time All Star and member of the Mets' 1986 championship team.
Cutter never made it out of the minors, and while he may have zero major league home runs,
Cutter did score big when he wed "The Sopranos" actor
Jamie-Lynn Sigler in 2016. The couple had welcomed a son, Beau, two years prior,
and he took part in his parents' wedding, per People. In 2018 they had another son, Jack.
While from the outside, their life might seem perfect, Sigler has been living
with multiple sclerosis since she was 20. She spoke to Glamour about
how it affects her romantic time with her husband.
"You don't want to lose feeling sexy, and I can feel that sometimes,
where I'll say, 'I don't feel sexy. I don't feel good today.' Like, I feel dumpy. My husband is
wonderful and great at making me feel good about myself — or trying to at least!"