Does anyone care about Jesse Metcalfe & Cara Santana’s messy breakup?

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I have been doing this job for a long time and I obviously follow celebrity gossip pretty closely, so trust me when I say this: I had no idea that anyone – literally ANYONE – cared about Jesse Metcalfe and Cara Santana. I know who he is, vaguely – he used to be on Desperate Housewives and the Dallas reboot, and now he gets consistent work on budget TV movies and that kind of stuff. He was a “hot guy” a decade ago, basically? But do people actually care about him at this point? And do people care about his relationship? For what it’s worth, if Jesse and Cara were actually gossip-worthy, I’m sure this story would be bigger. Apparently, Cara and Jesse were together for thirteen years and they were engaged for much of that time. Then he was seen getting friendly with some other women this week, then HE dumped HER. And she was blind-sided. And yet everyone knew he was a cheater. It’s like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel, only no one cares.

Olivia Culpo has a message for Jesse Metcalfe. And no, it’s not “Jesse Metcalfe Must Die” … but it’s pretty close. On Wednesday afternoon, hearts were crushed after learning that the 41-year-old actor and his fiancée, Cara Santana, called it quits after 13 years together. As if that weren’t tragic enough, the John Tucker Must Die alum was photographed getting cozy with two women on separate occasions right before the breakup occurred.

“Cara is heartbroken and has completely shut down and not talking to many people,” a source previously told E! News about their split. “Cara was completely blindsided by the photos of him with other women.” According to the insider, Jesse has not moved out of the house yet, however, they are arranging it.

So how does Oliva play into this? Upon learning about the breakup news, the 27-year-old model took to Instagram Stories to call out the Desperate Housewives star. “Don’t cheat… nobody likes a cheater,” one message read on Culpo’s post, which was a meme that featured Mean Girls’ Regina George. “When someone upsets my best friend… @carasantana,” another caption read, alongside a photo of the Home Alone scene where Kevin McCallister holds a gun.

At this time both Jesse and Cara have yet to speak out about their split. As our insider put it, “Jesse and Cara have been together for a decade, and have had their fair share of ups and downs. They truly have been on and off several times throughout the duration of their relationship. Recently, they hit a breaking point and have been having issues. It has been very rocky starting the end of last year and especially the last couple of weeks. They haven’t been very vocal or open about what they are going through as they are trying to work it out, but they are just not getting along.”

According to our source, the fact that Jesse was photographed with two women didn’t help the situation. It’s something that Cara was “completely blindsided” by.

“She knew they were having issues but didn’t think he would betray her on this level and its truly embarrassing for her,” the source explained.

[From E! News]

People Magazine also has a story (at the top of their front page) about how Cara had “no idea” that Jesse was dumping her and “She was wearing her ring yesterday…She had no idea things weren’t fine until she saw the photos online today. I promise they never broke up until today.” I mean…I am not trying to sound like a heartless bitch (I am one though) but I hope Cara changes this narrative quickly, because she looks kind of pathetic? I mean, it’s Jesse Metcalfe not Michael B. Jordan! You don’t actually have to hang around for 13 years, waiting and turning a blind eye to his cheating and then running around to People and E! News to talk about how you were blind-sided. Girl, it’s a bad look. But hey, they got the headlines so that’s something.

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30 Responses to “Does anyone care about Jesse Metcalfe & Cara Santana’s messy breakup?”

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  1. MeghanNotMarkle says:

    Who?

    • Astrid says:

      +1

    • TQB says:

      Olivia Culpo is a person that I can never remember anything about why she’s a thing, so this was a triple “Who?” for me.

      • holly hobby says:

        I think she dated one Jonas bro for one hot minute but I can’t remember which one. As for the other two, who?

      • Maddie says:

        Olivia Culpo is a veteran beard. I thought Jesse was gay tbh, but whatevs

    • a reader says:

      +2

    • Nannie says:

      Do you listen to who weekly? They’ve explained Olivia Culpo a million times and I still don’t know her.

    • MeghanNotMarkle says:

      I don’t pay much attention to any kind of gossip except here on CB. And we only have Netflix and Hulu so I’m not with it on a lot of current programming. I watched maybe a whole season of DH when it first aired but that was so long ago that I definitely forgot about those with minor roles in the show. I couldn’t tell you the first thing about this Cara girl. *shrug*

  2. Abby says:

    I’m confused,if she is 27 now,that puts her at 14 when they started dating.either that or my math teacher is going to be terribly wretched

  3. klutzy_girl says:

    LOL, I’ve been watching entertainment sites Tweet about this all weekend and wondered if anyone truly cared because neither of them *are* that famous. And the fact that they were engaged for so long and never married always seemed weird.

  4. Stefanie says:

    If she is 27 now and they were together for 13 years, she was 14 when they started dating??

  5. Kea says:

    So she’s only 27-years-old and has been with him for 13…?🤔

  6. Bishg says:

    He’ll always be sexy teenage gardener from Desperate Housewives to me. I don’t know her at all but I remember seeing pics of them together years ago and she had a completely different face. She messed it up HARD.

  7. LadyLou says:

    I believe her when she says that she was blindsided and wouldn’t call her pathetic. He is simply a pig and I am glad she got out. He did her a favor by being this sloppy. Count your losses and find a real man.

  8. Esp.Lumiere says:

    I knew of her, not of him. She’s an insta “influencer.”

    I feel bad for her if she really didn’t know. That said, good riddance now that she knows.

  9. TheOriginalMia says:

    13 years and they still hadn’t made it down the aisle? Nah…he was just stringing her along. He sucks.

    I had literally forgotten the Dallas reboot existed until his new Hallmark Mysteries show premiered and they mentioned it. Then it was…ah, yeah, that crap that I wasted time watching.

  10. Claire says:

    Miguel + Charity = Forever

  11. Severine says:

    13 years! Foolish.

  12. Meg says:

    The article I saw on daily mail had pictures of him with the women in public and a source said ‘hes about to start filming a movie with Bruce Willis’ wow so you’re using this to bring up your next work?
    But then I remembered didn’t he go to rehab years ago and in the announcement his publicist referred to him as ‘the desperate housewives and John Tucker must die star…’ IN HIS ANNOUNCEMENT HE WAS IN REHAB. How Lindsay lohan of him. He’s that desperate for attention

  13. jules says:

    I have no idea who either one is!

  14. ferdinand says:

    I somewhat follow the “Go to bed with me” from I think, Harper’s Bazaar and they did an episode last year. It was so cringy to watch. They both tried to out do each other and to steal screen time as much as possible. Now I guess they’re getting the attention they need if only people cared about them.

  15. Viv says:

    Turns out I like being reminded of people I had forgotten existed! Bummer for her though.

  16. Rebecca Siegel says:

    I vaguely remember him going to rehab shortly after he left DH and then I never saw him again.