After a tumultuous career in the public eye, Danny Cipriani’s name is back in the headlines. But this time, instead of being for his rollercoaster relationships and apparent wandering eye, he’s being praised for his sweet support of co-star Shirley Ballas on Celebrity Bear Hunt – after he helped the Strictly Come Dancing judge conquer her fear of heights.
Aside from his rugby playing, it was always Cipriani’s romantic relationships that saw him a regular feature in the tabloids back in the day. And never more so than when he dated presenter and model Kelly Brook from 2008-2010.
The pair’s rocky romance became and object of fixation for the public and the pair’s respective memoirs following their split only heightened the intrigue.
But Kelly Brook isn’t Danny Cipriani’s only famous ex. In fact, there have been quite a few over the years.
Who is Danny Cipriani currently dating?
Like his Celebrity Bear Hunt co-star Una Healy - who he was spotted leaving the Celebrity Bear Hunt launch party with - Cipriani is currently single.
After it was reported earlier this month that the former England rugby player had split from actress AnnaLynne McCord, Cipriani confirmed the news at the Celebrity Bear Hunt Leicester Square screening on Tuesday.
He shared, ‘We're not together right now, but she really enjoyed [watching] it. We were just talking about it and she really enjoyed it. She was so positive.
‘There was one time I phoned her during it and I was thinking about how I'm going to get out of here. She was like, “Look, I'm down, I'm going.” She was awesome.’
AnnaLynne McCord, 37 – who you may recognise from shows such as Nip/Tuck – and Cipriani began dating back in early 2024 after meeting on celebrity dating app Raya eight years prior. They reportedly split after their long-distance relationship became too difficult.
Is Danny Cipriani married?
Technically Cipriani is still married to Victoria Rose, but the mental health campaigner actually filed for divorce in August 2024 – nine months after the pair separated in November 2023 – after discovering a series of intimate messages with other women on his phone.
Rose, 42, revealed, ‘I was shocked, heartbroken. They weren't sexts but they were telling women they were beautiful, and about the connections he felt to them. Not the kind of thing you want to read your husband sending.’
Cipriani has however denied Rose’s allegations and instead claims that he had separated from her.
In an interview with The Sun he said, ‘When I look back now, I realise how much she hoodwinked me. But I really wanted to believe her.
‘I feel like I don’t know who she is. I don’t think I ever did because I have no idea what is the truth.’
Cipriani and Rose originally met through a mutual friend in 2019 and eventually tied the knot in 2021. During their time together Rose discovered that she was pregnant but the couple tragically lost their son River at 23 weeks in June 2020.
Who has Danny Cipriani previously dated?
Cipriani’s first public relationship was with Cheeky Girl singer Monica Irimia in 2007, but the pair split within the year when the rugby star cheated on her with glamour model Larissa Summers.
Cipriani then went on to date presenter Kelly Brook for two years from 2008-2010 but their relationship ended when Brook – now married to Jeremy Parisi after tying the knot in 2022 – reportedly caught Cipriani giving his number to a Las Vegas stripper. Following their official break-up in 2010 however, the pair attempted to rekindle their relationship multiple times, but it never worked out.
In her memoir Close Up Brook opened up about their relationship calling Cipriani ‘a serial cheat’ and a ‘man-child’ as well as opening up about his poor hygiene and toilet habits. Unhappy about the allegations Brook made in her book, Cipriani apparently threatened to sue the model.
For his part, Cipriani also opened up about their relationship in his own memoir Who Am I? claiming that he struggled to deal with Brook dating his England rugby teammate Thom Evans and alleged that Brook had subsequently cheated on Evans with Cipriani – something Brook denies.
Following their relationship Cipriani was linked to a host of women including Lindsay Lohan, Katie Price – who nicknamed him Danny Chipolata in her autobiography Love, Lipstick and Lies, Australian model Lara Bingle and sports presenter Kirsty Gallacher.
In 2019, Cipriani briefly dated presenter Caroline Flack and following her death in February 2020 he sweetly revealed, ‘The gift she gave me was having to dive into my emotions in a way I hadn’t before. I hadn’t really cried or felt visceral feelings before.’
Daisy Hall is a News and Entertainment writer on Grazia