Lightning may rarely strike twice, but if Mike White's current season of The White Lotus is anything to go by, it may well have struck a hat-trick.
While we dissect, debate and hypothesise over each characters' every move and motive — just what is going on with the Ratliff siblings? — there is, luckily for us, just as much to pore over in the actors' real lives too.
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We might not fully believe the status of Gary's (sorry, Greg's) arrangement with model Chloe, or Timothy and Victoria's mediocre marriage (anybody else all too conscious of how checked out he is?), but the stars of The White Lotus season three really do have real-life love lives to rival the characters they play. Well, almost.
Patrick Schwarzenegger — Saxon Ratliff
Patrick Schwarzenegger, who plays the bombastic eldest son of the Ratliff clan, has in real-life been engaged to his partner of over a decade, model Abby Champion, since 2023.
In February 2025, Schwarzenegger told PEOPLE he knew Champion was the one for him when he saw 'how much she values family and how similar our core values are.'
'Over the course of the years, I just continuously fell in love with her more and more, with the kind of human that she was becoming and [what] the relationship was becoming,' he said.
The pair started dating in September 2015, following his split from Miley Cyrus.
Parker Posey — Victoria Ratliff
The Dazed & Confused actor — and the veritable star of this season of The White Lotus — is believed to be currently single, although she is understood to have dated fellow industry veterans during her time in Hollywood. Keanu Reeves, Ryan Adams (who was married to Mandy Moore) and Stuart Townsend are among the names to have been floated in association with Posey.
Jason Isaacs — Timothy Ratliff
He may be be Lucius Malfoy to many, but Jason Isaacs is proving that his Southern Charm-inspired character in The White Lotus, Timothy Ratliff, really is as malevolent as his wizarding predecessor. In real-life though — unlike Timothy, whose story unravels as The White Lotus goes on — Isaacs is a true family man. He has been married to his wife, Emma Hewitt, since 2001, after the pair met while studying at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. The couple also share two daughters, Lily and Ruby.
Sam Nivola — Lochlan Ratliff
With roles in The White Lotus and Netflix's The Perfect Couple under his belt, we can all expect to see a lot more of Sam Nivola on our screens — and his girlfriend, Iris Apatow, too, who he's been dating for two years.
'I’m so in love, and she’s so amazing,' Nivola told Teen Vogue in February 2025 of his relationship with Apatow. 'I think the thing about moving in with someone is that when you’re this young, it’s always like, "Oh my God, you’re going to get sick of them." You’re going to spend all day, every day together, and then it’s going to be routine, and you’re going to feel like you’ve been in a marriage for 30 years. I don’t think that would happen with her anyway, just because we’re so in love.'
For the uninitiated, Apatow is also the daughter of Hollywood heavyweights Judd Apatow and Leslie Mann and younger sister of Euphoria's Maude Apatow.
Sarah Catherine Hook — Piper Ratliff
While Cruel Intentions star Sarah Catherine Hook takes to Instagram regularly to share images of her friends and family, she's yet to share details — or photographic evidence — of a romantic partner.
Walton Goggins — Rick
The increasingly elusive and oh-so grumpy Rick in The White Lotus season three is played by Walton Goggins, who in reality has been happily married to filmmaker Nadia Conners for over a decade. The pair initially met on a blind date in 2005, dating for approximately six years before marrying in 2011.
Goggins was previously married to a dog trainer, Leanne Kaun. She and Goggins had decided to end their marriage in 2004 when Leanne then tragically died. In a 2019 interview with The Daily Beast, Goggins spoke about how he dealt with her passing. 'I drifted for upwards of three years after that. It took me a really long time to come back from it,' the actor said. 'If it weren’t for the people in my life that cared about me, that stepped in and helped me understand that life goes on, I don’t know what would have happened.'
Aimee Lou Wood — Chelsea
Fast becoming a national treasure, Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood, is currently understood to be single, after her and her co-star Connor Swindells (who played Adam Groff in the Netflix series), who began dating in 2018, ended their relationship in 2020.
In true Chelsea fashion though, Wood has posited some sage words of advice for eager singletons. 'Don’t look at how they’re treating you, look at how they’re treating the waiter,' she wisely said to Bustle, before listing her 'icks' as 'rudeness, not saying thank you, and being impolite.'
Michelle Monaghan — Jaclyn
American actor Michelle Monaghan met her now-husband at a party in 2000 and, after five years of dating, were married three months after getting engaged. She even recently shared a photo of the couple's first Valentine’s Day in 2001. The pair, who live in Los Angeles, also share two children: a daughter, Willow, born in 2008, and a son, Tommy, born in 2013.
Leslie Bibb — Kate
She may play uptight Nashville housewife Kate in the current season of The White Lotus, but Leslie Bibb's real-life love story is far more rock and roll. She's been dating Oscar-winning actor Sam Rockwell, who you may recognise from Charlie’s Angels or Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, since 2007 after the pair met on the set of Frost/Nixon.
On her and Rockwell’s 16th anniversary, Bibb shared an old photo of her partner napping on her. 'Sweet sixteen sammy …was this from the first year, maybe the second, who knows we were babies and all the time is flying by and blurring into one helluva a ride with you,' she wrote. 'I feel very lucky to get to love this human and even luckier to be loved by him…give someone you [love] a squeeze today and look them in the eye and tell them how you feel about them…it does the body good…'
Carrie Coon — Laurie
Another Hollywood heavyweight pairing is Carrie Coon and her Pulitzer Prize-winning husband, Tracy Letts, the critically acclaimed playwright of August Osage County, for which he won the honour.
The pair met at a play in 2012 and married a year later at a hospital after Letts received emergency gall bladder surgery, and the couple share two children: a son, born in 2018, and a daughter, born in 2021. Letts has starred in multiple recent hits, including Greta Gerwig’s Ladybird and Little Women.
Lalisa Manobal — Mook
Making her acting debut in the most recent season of The White Lotus, BLACKPINK's Lalisa Manobal has proved that she really is a triple threat. The star has reportedly been in a quiet relationship with fashion businessman Frédéric Arnault, the CEO of Tag Heuer and fourth son of LVMH Founder, Bernard Arnault, since 2023.
Although neither has spoken about a romance, rumours of their dalliance started gaining momentum in July 2023, and the pair have been seen on dates in New York and Tokyo. In 2024, Lisa was also photographed on holiday with the Arnault family in Italy.
There have also been hints in Lisa’s music, with her recently released song, ‘Moonlit Floor’ containing the lyrics, 'Green-eyed French boy got me trippin’,' which fans believed to be a nod to Arnault.
BLACKPINK members have spoken previously about their K-Pop band’s record label, YG Entertainment, having a 'dating ban', which prohibited the members from having partners.
Natasha Rothwell — Belinda
While there are rumours she once dated Idris Elba, not much is known about actor and returning star to The White Lotus, Natasha Rothwell, who is understood to be currently single.
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Naomi May is a seasoned culture journalist and editor with over ten years’ worth of experience in shaping stories and building digital communities. After graduating with a First Class Honours from City University's prestigious Journalism course, Naomi joined the Evening Standard, where she worked across both the newspaper and website. She is now the Digital Editor at ELLE Magazine and has written features for the likes of The Guardian, Vogue, Vice and Refinery29, among many others. Naomi is also the host of the ELLE Collective book club.
