Sophia Bush and Ex-Husband Grant Hughes’ Relationship Timeline

Sophia Bush and Grant Hughes had a short-lived marriage, but their relationship was years in the making.

The actress met the entrepreneur nearly a decade before things between them turned romantic.

“We became fast friends but only saw each other a few times a year because both of us were traveling all of the time for work,” Bush recalled to Vogue during her and Hughes’ wedding spread, published in July 2022.

Their friendship eventually developed into something romantic, and by May 2020, Bush and Hughes made their first public outing together. The couple announced their engagement in August 2021.

Sophia Bush’s Dating History

“Grant booked us a sightseeing tour on a classic Riva boat and popped the question during golden hour,” Bush said of the proposal. “We shared the news publicly a few days later because we’d been spotted in Puglia by a group of very sweet Gen Z girls, and I watched them clock the ring on my finger.”

They tied the knot nearly one year later in June 2022, with Bush later revealing that she almost called off the entire ceremony.

“In April of 2022 I was close to calling off my wedding,” she wrote in a Glamour cover story published two years later. “Instead of running away, I doubled down on being a model wife.”

In August 2023, Bush filed for divorce after just 13 months of marriage. Keep scrolling to look back at Bush and Hughes’ relationship timeline:

May 2020

After Bush was spotted with someone dubbed as a “mystery man” at the time, Us Weekly confirmed that it was Hughes.

August 2021

Bush announced her engagement to Hughes on Instagram.

“So it turns out that being your favorite person’s favorite person is the actual best feeling on planet Earth