A Semi Professional Background Check On Demi’s ‘Secret Lives’ Husband, Bret Engemann

“She is an icon, she is a legend and she is the moment” – the entire internet talking to the state of Utah rn. The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is the full glam clusterfuck of LDS culture that keeps on giving (I can only imagine how much more I’d love it if I was watching with laughing gas). In this MomTok clique, it’s not just the ladies bringing Mount Peale-sized mountain ranges of shade. The husbands of the Mormon Wives are just as jaw-droppingly complicated on screen. One husband, in particular, is no stranger to the C-list limelight: Bret Engemann is looking familiar to fans of Bravo’s RHOSLC. What is Demi’s husband’s connection to the Salt Lake Housewives franchise? Spoiler alert: it has to do with Angie (not the Princess of Greece, the other one). Here’s everything to know about Demi’s Mormon Wives husband Bret Engemann.

When was Bret Engemann married to Angie H. from RHOSLC?

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Bret Engemann got married to his second wife, Angie Harrington from The Real Housewives of Lake City, after meeting in college around 1999. Angie and Bret had two children, Cole and Rome, before divorcing long ahead of Angie’s appearance as a friend on season 3 of Salt Lake City. Angie said breaking up with the “golden boy” of Provo put her under a tough microscope, but she remarried to Chris Harrington (her husband on RHOSLC) in 2017. Bret’s current wife Demi has mentioned that Bret was also allegedly married to “this other girl” six years after his first marriage for only “six months.” Demi describes their break up as “more like an annulment.”

What is the age gap between Demi and Bret?

Demi has confirmed she and her husband are 16 years apart. When she was nine, he was already married with children.

How did Demi and Bret get together?

Demi says she heard Bret’s name “a lot” growing up through mutuals because Bret was a BYU quarterback and his dad was a “celebrity” record producer which made him a low-key celeb in town. Her childhood best friend’s dad was close with Bret, so Demi suspects she and Bret spent time at his house at the same time, but neither of them remembers given the massive age gap. When Demi turned 18, Bret followed her on Instagram. She happened to be on a break with her then-boyfriend Blake, who would become her husband, but since she had heard “bad boy” rumors about Bret she did nothing about it. She and Blake reconnected with Bret after she had her daughter Maude when her husband made friends with Bret at the gym, and Bret offered to help with Maude’s modeling. Demi and Blake even submitted Bret for The Bachelorette, which didn’t end up working out because of Covid.

After Demi’s post-partum experience led to her and Blake “go[ing] their separate ways,” Bret and Demi went on a date gone haywire when Demi claims that TMZ dropped pictures exposing she was dating outside of her marriage before her friends and family even knew she was separated. A few months later, after the dust settled, Demi and Bret started dating again in spring 2020. By September 2020, they launched their love on main, and they were quickly married by March of 2021.