Chad Michael Murray was everyone's teen crush in the 2000s. This is his life now.

Chad Michael Murray may have been a teen heartthrob, but in 2024 he's the leading man in multiple cheesy rom-coms.

Playing the handsome leading man was the obvious next step for the star, who appeared in Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill and A Cinderella Story in his younger years. Now, he's starring as a sexy stripper in the Netflix Christmas movie, The Merry Gentlemen.

"Not your Grandma's Christmas movie… but if it is, good for her!" he wrote on Instagram when the first-look photos were released.

And he's leaning all the way into this hilarious concept, even posing for a sexy 2025 calendar.

Watch Chad Michael Murray unveil his calendar. Story continues below.

Off-screen, the actor is living his best life alongside his family, in a minivan.

At least, that's what the actor joked after announcing that he and his wife Sarah Roemer were expecting their third child together.

He and his family, including a son born in 2015 and daughter born in 2017, whose names they have never shared publicly, were travelling the world — with Roemer's bump growing as they traverse from the Eiffel Tower to Thailand.

"We travel this world as a little wolf pack – this baby's been everywhere already and she's not even on the outside yet," he wrote alongside a video of their travels.

He also shared a photo of Roemer on Instagram.

"Third little one on the way. Gonna need a bigger car... Minivan time," he wrote on his Story.

Image: Instagram/@rooeemer.

Murray, 42, and Roemer, 39, began dating after meeting on the set of the action-thriller series Chosen.

They are notoriously private, becoming married in a secret wedding ceremony in January 2015 that was not announced until after the fact.

They welcomed their first child, a son, four months later and their second child, a daughter, was born in March 2017. Their third child, a daughter, was born in August 2023.

"So blessed and feeling so very grateful. We've added to our pack with our new little girl," the actor wrote on Instagram at the time.

Roemer often indulges her followers – many of whom joke about her living out everyone's teenage dreams – online, readily acknowledging her husband's history as a heartthrob.

Image: Instagram/@rooeemer.

Millions of teenagers had a crush on the actor after he was catapulted to international fame on the American drama series, One Tree Hill, where he played a high school basketball player.

Before then, he had also gained recognition for his roles in Gilmore Girls and Dawson's Creek. And in 2004, he played the lead male role alongside Hilary Duff in A Cinderella Story.

In May 2004, the actor became engaged to his One Tree Hill co-star Sophia Bush, who played Brooke Davis. But after just five months together, their marriage ended.

Bush opened up about the marriage in a 2018 radio interview, saying: "Everybody’s been 22 and stupid."

"[The marriage] was not a thing I actually really wanted to do," the actress admitted. "Because how do you let everybody down... when you have bosses telling you that you’re the only person who gets a person to work on time, and 200 people either get to see their kids at night or they don’t because our days start on time?

"People won’t let it go," Bush continued. "Can you imagine if the idiot you dated when you were a senior in high school — if people still would not stop talking to you about it?"

Murray refuted the inference the marriage was a publicity stunt, saying he "would never marry for any reason but love."

Later that year, months prior to his divorce being finalised, Murray became engaged to Kenzie Dalton, an extra on One Tree Hill.

After a seven-year engagement, they broke up in 2013.

Chad Michael Murray and his then-fiancee Kenzie Dalton in 2006. Image: Getty.

Chad Michael Murray dipped in and out of the acting pool after One Tree Hill finished up. He has appeared in TV shows like Chosen, Agent Carter and Scream Queens and films like To Write Love on Her Arms.

In 2018, the 37-year-old debuted on Netflix's Riverdale as the leader of a cult, Edgar Evernever. He also turned to Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas films, starring in half a dozen since 2018.

Much like his character on One Tree Hill, Murray also dabbled in some writing.

In 2011, he released a novel titled Everlast. In November 2016, Murray announced a second novel, American Drifter: An Exhilarating Tale of Love and Murder, which was released in 2017. The latter was a fiction thriller, that followed the story of an army veteran and a journalist who are being chased by drug lords in Brazil.

He currently stars as the lead in Canadian drama series Sullivan's Crossing, which you can watch on Stan.

Chad Michael Murray stars in Sullivan's Crossing, which has been renewed for a third season. Image: Stan.

In 2018, the actor revealed what his daily life with his family of five looks like.

"Do u know what I do every morning?" he wrote on Twitter. Wake in my loving family's embrace, make coffee & breakfast 4 the kiddos with my wife. Read 1-2 chapters in the Bible 2 start the day off right. Then we plan how 2 fill the day with love 4 my family & brethren. It's so simple yet so fulfilling."

In September 2024, the actor celebrate 10 years of marriage.

"We've jammed more into this 10 years than I ever could've imagined," he wrote on Instagram. "It's truly astounding. It's been the best decade of my life by far — sharing each and every moment with you.

"We've grown this little pack together and seen so much of the world as a family. I'm so grateful for you Sarah. Every day is a better and much brighter day with you in it.

"I hope and pray for at least 50 more anniversaries with you. Till we're old and gray… new hips, new knees, our elbow skin will be touching the ground, all the kids will think we're senile but really we're just f-ing with them… coz that's what you do when you're old and together."

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This article was originally published on July 12, 2020 and has been updated.

Feature image: Getty.

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