TV star Eddie Cibrian got his big break in 1994 when he landed a role on legendary soap
opera The Young and the Restless, and he started climbing the small screen ladder thanks to
shows like Baywatch Nights and Sunset Beach.
He's since continued his work with appearances in Ugly Betty and Rosewood, but Cibrian's
star status seems to have faded in recent years.
Instead of being known for his on-screen work, Cibrian makes more headlines for his off-screen
life.
Here's why.
Tabloid target
In March 2009, Eddie Cibrian was accused of cheating on his wife, future Real Housewives
of Beverly Hills star Brandi Glanville, with whom he shares two children.
He and married country singer-turned-actress LeAnn Rimes were caught canoodling on camera
while shooting their lifetime film Northern Lights together, and the two eventually split
from their spouses and got married to each other.
What made matters worse was the couple seemed to play the victim card about all the attention
their connection received from outsiders.
Cibrian said, "I don't know how people perceive me.
What I do know is when you reach a certain point in your career you're placed in this
unfair fishbowl.
Things unfortunately get magnified.
We are all human, we are all not perfect.
I love my family dearly, and I'm a great father.
It just saddens me that this is hurtful and being played out publicly."
If Cibrian wanted the tryst to stay out of the tabloids, though, he and Rimes should've
thought about the ones left behind because their exes simply refused to be silenced amid
the spectacle.
Exes and ohs
Brandi Glanville has spent many years dragging Eddie Cibrian and Leann Rimes' names through
the mud.
In fact, she's made an entire career as a reality star and author out of being jilted,
which keeps this testy love triangle squarely in the spotlight.
"I'm drinking wine and noone can say a damn thing."
And while Rimes' ex, Dean Sheremet, is less apt to capitalize on the unfortunate situation,
he's also spilled a few key details about the split that don't exactly bolster Cibrian's
reputation.
Speaking in 2015, Sheremet remembered his very first meeting with Cibrian, declaring:
"I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw this f---ing table.
He just felt like one of those guys from the beginning.
A total schmoozer.
Very Hollywood.
I never bought his shtick."
If that wasn't enough already, in 2017, Sheremet teamed up with Glanville to appear on the
reality show My Kitchen Rules to make sure their exes wouldn't ever live down the dirt.
Reality rejects
Given the amount of tabloid attention Cibrian and Rimes' relationship has received over
the years, you'd think the public would be itching for a peek inside the drama.
So, the two gave the reality scene their own shake by signing up to do a reality show called
LeAnn and Eddie in 2014.
To be fair to the couple, the show gave them an opportunity to finally come clean about
the truth of their relationship in a refreshingly honest way.
"Our relationship didn't quite start off like we had planned."
"We were both married to other people."
But viewers weren't interested in the whole truth.
The show premiered to "soft" ratings and eight episodes later, VH1 officially pulled the
plug on the show.
Although the reality flop might've been unexpected, it was actually pretty par for the course
of Cibrian's screen career.
Ratings roast
In recent years, much of Cibrian's resume has mostly involved bit parts or recurring
roles on various television shows, as well as corny TV movies.
One reason behind that may have to do with a string of high-profile letdowns, some of
which were canceled abruptly or never made it to air in the first place.
The most notable, of course, happened in the fall of 2011 when his NBC drama The Playboy
Club premiered to high controversy but incredibly low ratings.
After three disastrous episodes, the network unceremoniously pulled the plug on the series,
making it the first new network show of the season to get canceled.
He also saw another would-be NBC show prove to be dead on arrival in 2015 after the network
decided against picking up a sitcom which would've starred himself alongside Monica
Potter.
Cibrian did seem to get some new wind in his sails in 2016, when he landed a role in the
Fox crime drama Rosewood, but even that part only came about after Brian Austin Green walked
away from it, and the show was ultimately cancelled due to declining viewership.
All of these major misses might be due to circumstances beyond Eddie Cibrian's control,
but he does seem to be the lowest common denominator for a lot of unsuccessful shows.
Which means producers might consider him bad luck for their next projects and steer clear
of casting him in anything new.
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