Anna Daniels
It took eight years for flirtatious workaholic Morgan to find a steady girlfriend. As Moore put it to TV Guide, “you never saw… the off-the-clock side, where he lets his hair down, dates, has drinks and has somebody in his life.” In the first episode of season nine, the character finally mentioned a girlfriend — but it took another eight episodes to meet the lucky lady, Savannah, a doctor at Bethesda General Hospital.
Moore can relate to his character’s overdue love life. In fact, that’s one reason he gave for stepping away from the role. A few months after his last episode aired, he told TV Guide that he said goodbye to Criminal Minds “so I could pursue other avenues of my life. I want to get married, I want to have kids, I want to travel.”
A few years on, and it appears that unlike Morgan, Moore has yet to find the person he wants to settle down with. He’s been romantically linked to several famous women since leaving Criminal Minds, including soccer player Shawna Gordon, whom he dated from 2014 to 2015, and actress Anabelle Acosta. In 2018, he told Steve Harvey that he and Acosta were taking things slow, while also emphasizing that he was looking for a long-term partner (via Extra). “I’ve done everything I could do by myself, and now I need that somebody… I need that partner in crime to do the rest of what I want to do,” he said. Unfortunately, Acosta was not that partner: the pair split in 2019, and Moore’s mission to find love continues.
Written by: Looper
