Luke Gulbranson Height, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography

Some Lesser Known Facts About Luke Gulbranson

• Luke Gulbranson grew up in the small town of Eveleth, on the Iron Range of northern Minnesota.

• His great grandfather was a foreman at the Oliver mine, and the family has strong roots in the area.

• His father Lyle was an operating engineers local 49 and his mother Cindy was a nurse caregiver.

• In Eveleth, there is the United States Hockey Hall of fame and Gulbranson started skating when he was two years old.

• The family experienced a financial crisis when it was still growing up. They resorted to food assistance, Medicaid and community support occasionally.

• Notification of electricity shutoff and rough winters became a part of life during those years. He has four year old sister, Alli.

• These two became very close just like when they experienced their childhood.

• Through hockey he was kept down to earth during those years and he had learned discipline and teamwork as early as in his childhood.

• His career in hockey was prematurely stopped at the age of 19 in 2002.

• The actor and modeller transitioned to New York City, his new home, to sustain himself and spent more than 20 years in places such as Williamsburg, East Village, Midtown East, Soho, Hudson Yards and Flatiron.

• In the tradition of his entertainment career, he also became licensed as a real estate salesperson under the name Lucas Gulbranson and sold property in New York City, primarily of downtown locations.

• It was also during these years that he got involved in singing, songwriting and furniture building and volunteered in organizations to help animal shelters and Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

• During his stay at Summer House, he was associated with cast members Hannah Berner and Ciara Miller.

• In November 2017, he founded Bone Ridge LLC in Delaware and started to work as a producer.

• He started R Co., the designer of handcrafted original brass jewellery and clothing based in Brentford in December 2017, under the name of R Co.

• In 2020-2022, Gulbranson was a cast member on the Bravo reality series Summer House. In an episode of Summer House, he talked about his attachment with his sister Alli.

• He replied, “And me and my sister confide in each other a lot. I’m lucky to have Alli on my side.”

• He also had posts on Instagram wherein he teaches his nieces how to play ice hockey, terming himself a proud uncle.

• Gulbranson went back to Eveleth during the pandemic. He constructed the home he now lives in on his own and he relaxed in the community which brought him up.

• He began Luke’s Maple Syrup in March 2021, making pure maple syrup out of north woods Minnesota.

• On January 2022, he opened Happy Dog Lager. He also resorted to work as a youth hockey coach to the locality.

• In the fall of 2022, Gulbranson started dating Ashley Boalch Darby of The Real Housewives of Potomac.

• Andy Cohen helped to introduce the two to each other at BravoCon. Their affair lasted but a short time. In January 2023 they parted ways.

• As Darby made her appearance on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen shortly after the breakup she indicated that complications by her long time divorce with Michael Darby helped lead to the break-up.

• In March 2023, dating news of Gulbranson and former Bachelorette winner Tayshia Adams emerged, with celebrity gossips account DeuxMoi posting two separate sightings of the two together.

• Lindsay Hubbard, his former Summer House costar, posted a since- deleted photo of the duo celebrating Easter together, one month later.

• The two even spent time at some publicly visible events together such as at the Eras Tour by Taylor Swift, at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards, and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade of 2023.

• Andy Cohen posted an Instagram Story of the two sitting very intimate to each other at the parade.

• The couple initially met in late winter 2022 and were very happy together was revealed by a source to People magazine.

• People magazine authenticated that Adams and Gulbranson parted ways five months ago in April 2025, two years after they were dating.

• A source believed that the two were never in touch anymore.

• On 15 April 2026 Gulbranson announced his campaign in a campaign advertisement on running in Minnesota in the 8th Congressional District, which is currently represented by Republican Representative Pete Stauber.

• He is a Democrat candidate.

• In the advert, Gulbranson mentioned that he had spent his reality TV days as drama but Washington, he said, was the place of real drama with real consequences.

• He disparaged Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents whose attitude he termed disruption to communities.

• His other criticisms were against Congress that voted to cut the healthcare access and those who spent 200 billion dollars to war rather than domestic demands.

• He claimed to defend land, promote unionization and take care of families with fixed incomes.

• He can now drive within a short distance of his parents who have to take care of the household requirements on a given limited income.

• His family has been coping with cancer and physical disability and increasing healthcare and prescription medication expenses.

• Gulbranson is not the first reality TV star who tries to get elected to office.

• Sean Duffy was a former adolescent cast member in the Real World on MTV and later on became a congressman in Wisconsin and also became Transportation Secretary.

• Bravo’s Heavenly Kimes declared her candidacy to run in a Democratic primary with Representative David Scott of Georgia.

• Spencer Pratt, an ex-MTV the Hills star is a candidate that is running to be mayor of LA.