Does Justin Saliman have wife? All about Sofia Vergara’s boyfriend

‘Modern Family’ alum Sofia Vergara and surgeon Justin Saliman were first linked in October 2023

Sofia Vergara has a new beau.

The Colombian actress and orthopedic surgeon Justin Saliman first sparked dating rumors in October 2023, after which a source told PEOPLE that Vergara was “dating and having fun.”

The Modern Family alum may be keeping busy between judging on America’s Got Talent and launching a coffee line, but while speaking to PEOPLE in April 2024, she revealed she was ready to find love again after her July 2023 divorce from fellow actor Joe Manganiello.

“It doesn’t even have to be a husband. A partner,” she told PEOPLE a few months earlier. And although Vergara was coy about her new relationship, she was clear about some of the qualities she was looking for in a new boyfriend. “Health. Money. Fun. With kids. That’s it,” the Emmy nominee said.

“I mean, it’s already hard for a fiftysomething-year-old woman to find someone,” she said after being asked if she would date someone in the industry again. “I’m not going to be now picky about, ‘Oh, he can only be a doctor. Oh, he can only be an astronaut.’ ”

After a few Instagram “soft launches,” she made her “luv” for Saliman public in April 2024 on her Instagram Stories.

So, who is Sofia Vergara’s boyfriend? Here is everything to know about Justin Saliman and his relationship with the actress.

He is originally from Denver

Although Saliman now calls Los Angeles home, he was born and raised in Denver. As the grandson of one of the lead engineers for the Hoover Dam, he grew up with an innate curiosity about the intricacies of how things were built, he told Forbes in December 2019.

According to Saliman’s LinkedIn, he received his medical degree from the University of Colorado and went on to do his Orthopedic Residency at Mount Sinai in New York City, before completing a fellowship at Stanford University.

Saliman is an orthopedic surgeon

Saliman is a Beverly Hills-based orthopedic surgeon. He previously worked with the San Francisco 49ers along with several university athletic teams as part of a sports medicine fellowship at Stanford University.

The medical professional is also the founder of Ceterix Orthopaedics and the NovoStitch Pro Meniscal Repair System.

“I can have more of an impact on humanity by solving a need in the medtech space than I ever could treating individual patients,” Saliman told Forbes. “If I didn’t do your knee surgery, then someone else would, but if I didn’t build Ceterix, I didn’t believe anyone else would.”

He was previously married to Grimm actress Bree Turner

Despite not being in the industry, Saliman’s relationship with Vergara isn’t his first time being romantically linked to a Hollywood star. He married Grimm actress Bree Turner in 2008.

But after a decade of marriage, she filed for divorce in 2018, citing “irreconcilable differences.”