United Kingdom, Oct. 14 -- Joe Manganiello's friend offered to abduct Sofia Vergara's former boyfriend.

The True Blood actor's unnamed pal suggested he arrange to have Nick Loeb "snatched off the street", driven to a remote area and given a savage beating in response to the businessman taking legal action against Joe's then-wife for custody of the embryos they had had frozen during their four-year relationship, which ended in 2014.

Joe - who was married to the Modern Family actress from 2015 to 2023 - wrote in his new memoir Bloodlines: "At one point a very close friend of mine who happens to have top-level contacts in the private security world offered me the opportunity, no questions asked, to have this guy snatched off the street, bl...