Jannik Sinner may be a poster boy for Gucci, but the Italian has proven on the tennis court that he has the substance to back up the style.

The 22-year-old ended Novak Djokovic's Australian Open dominance with a stunning semi-final victory on Friday and is now within touching distance of his first Grand Slam.

Sinner inflicted the all-conquering Djokovic's first defeat in Melbourne since 2018, proving that the rising tennis generation actually has the game and the bottle to beat the old guard.

A win in Sunday's final would take the multi-talented Sinner to a whole new level, with many years ahead of him to cement his place in tennis history.

Sinner combines tennis skills and looks that have earned him collaborations with the luxury fashion house Gucci and the iconic Italian car brand Ferrari.

He is in a relationship with stunning model and influencer Maria Braccini, but chooses to keep their relationship very private.

She has a closed Instagram profile and Sinner rarely posts photos of them together, both preferring private life, something that may be tested as his face grows.

Despite his young years, Sinner already has an estimated new value of $12 million [£9.46m] and this weekend's Australian Open success will earn him another $2.1 million [£1.65m] in prize money.

The victory will also delight Sinner's devoted fan base, known as the 'Carota Boys' or 'Carrot Boys' after his red hair.

Born in August 2001 in San Candido, a small town in northern Italy near the Austrian border, Sinner grew up in modest surroundings with parents Hanspeter and Siglinde, and was a ski champion as a boy.

He has a brother, Mark, but details about the family are scarce. They are rarely seen during his matches and his social media is dominated by endorsement deals and professional images from the field.

Sinner shared a rare photo of him and his brother in 2019, but fans find the family's dynamics mysterious, even though they are widely seen as hard-working people with strong moral values.

Sinner, who now lives in Monte Carlo, has a similar private relationship with his girlfriend Braccini.

The model, who has 103,000 followers on her private Instagram page, has been described as 'introverted' and 'fiercely private', often keeping a low profile around the bright lights of Sinner's burgeoning career.

Braccini watched him at Wimbledon, but managed to avoid the cameras, something Sinner seems happy about.

But back to Sinner's early life, and things could have turned out so differently if patience had been applied to his skiing career.

'Skiing is a very common sport to practice where I am. There are a lot of ski slopes literally right outside my front door,” Sinner once told ATPtour.com.

'I remember the first time I went skiing. My brother had some lessons and I saw him and I wanted to go, but my mother told me, “Not today.”

“I kept crying to her and asking, and then she said, 'Okay, let's do this.' They expected me to go one day and then I would go home. But I stayed all day until they closed the slopes. After that I went every day and loved it.”

Sinner was a natural talent, far superior to many children his age, and he soon became one of the best junior skiers in Italy.

Skiing was number 1. Football was number 2. Tennis was number 3.

Trophies soon came rolling in, competition after competition, but at the age of 13, Sinner, who had dropped football at the time, began to feel physically inferior on the slopes.

“One year I won a lot of trophies skiing, but the next year I felt the others were so much stronger physically,” he added.

'I went out twice and didn't feel comfortable anymore. I really loved tennis because everything came from my side. I had my head under control, which is very difficult when skiing.'

One of his early ski coaches praised his “mountain mentality,” which he has since been able to apply to tennis. But now he was all about tennis.

Sinner, wise beyond his years, chose to leave home at the age of 13 to really make a success of tennis. He left friends and family behind and left, determined to turn pro.

'When I left home at the age of thirteen, I dreamed of becoming a professional. Seven years later I am in the top ten,” he reflected in 2021.

Riccardo Piatti's academy in Bordighera, Italy, was where Sinner would end up and their relationship was almost paternal in nature.

Claudio Pistolesi, the 1985 world number 1 junior, once told ATPTour.com that Sinner's unconventional route to the Tour, via the ski slopes, helped – not hindered him.

“Like Lorenzo Sonego, who played football until he was 14, he broke all the rules you follow from an academy perspective because he played another sport at a good level,” Pistolesi said.

“He brings some lateral skills to tennis by skiing his movements around the court, and he automatically steps into the ball.”

His rise continued to where the Association of Tennis Professionals named him Newcomer of the Year in 2019, before becoming the first player born in the 2000s to break the top 10 in 2021.

Last year he reached his first Slam semi-final at Wimbledon, but was defeated by Djokovic in straight sets.

The player nicknamed 'The Fox' caused a stir at SW19 by walking onto the pitch with a personalized Gucci bag.

In addition to posing for Gucci photo shoots, Sinner has lucrative collaborations with Nike, Head, Rolex, Gucci, Lavazza, Alfa Romeo, Technogym and Parmigiano Reggiano.

Continuing the theme of Italian cool, Sinner recently got behind the wheel of sleek Ferrari sports cars during a visit to the brand's famous base in Maranello.

Since he speaks Italian, German and English, it's no wonder brands consider him highly marketable.

This time, however, the tables were turned for Djokovic as Sinner triumphed in four thrilling sets and even managed to overcome the disappointment of a missed match point in the third.

Now the immensely talented Sinner has a first Slam success within reach.

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Published: 11:29 EST, January 24, 2024 | Updated: 12:19 EST, January 24, 2024

By Matt Demarco for Daily Mail Australia

Published: 00:41 EST, January 24, 2024 | Updated: 00:48 EST, January 24, 2024

Taylor Swift had long since turned Gillette Stadium upside down Travis Kelce joined the NFL.

As the 34-year-old Kansas City Chiefs walked through a tunnel at Gillette Stadium prior to his game on Sunday, December 17, he passed posters of several sports figures – and one of his girlfriend.

Kelce stared at the poster of Swift, 34, hanging on the wall, featuring the pop singer of one of her 1989 Tour performances at the stadium, according to a video posted X (formerly Twitter). Swift has played thirteen shows at the venue since 2010, most recently as part of the Eras tour in May.

While Kelce caught a glimpse of Swift through the poster prior to his match, the “Lover” singer was also spotted as the Chiefs took on the New England Patriots on Sunday.

Swift wore a black peacoat, a gray Chiefs sweatshirt and a white knit hat with a red stripe alongside her father. Scott Swiftbackground singer Melanie Nyemastylist Ashley Avignone and musician Alana Haim.

Before his match, Kelce arrived at the venue in what some fans thought was a… Reputation-coded outfit consisting of a black jacket, matching pants and oversized sunglasses. (Swift’s 2017 album is known to feature darker colors.)

This marks the seventh time Swift has attended one of Kelce’s games since the two were first linked over the summer. Swift made her NFL debut in September when the Chiefs faced the Chicago Bears.

The Grammy Award winner later revealed that their relationship began before her first public appearance. In July, Kelce failed to give Swift a friendship bracelet with his phone number on it while he was with her Eras tour in Kansas City – which he later shared with him and his brother Jason Kelce‘New Heights’ podcast.

“[Our relationship] it all started when Travis adorably confused me on his podcast, which I thought was metal as hell,” Swift shared in her TIME Person of the Year profile released earlier this month. “We actually had a significant amount of time that no one knew, which I’m grateful for because we got to know each other.”

Since going public, Kelce has been spotted supporting Swift’s Eras Tour in Argentina, where she famously changed the lyrics to her hit song “Karma” to reference her new boyfriend. Instead of singing the original lyrics, “Karma is the man on the screen,” Swift sang “Karma is the man on the Chiefs.”

Kelce blushed at the lyric swap, according to footage shared by fans on social media, and initially said he “had no idea” what Swift was planning.

“Well, I might have had a little idea,” he said on a November episode of the “New Heights” podcast. “But definitely, when I heard it come out of her mouth, it still shocked me. I thought, ‘Oh… she really just said that.'”

Prince Harry tore a poster of his late grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, off a wall during a “wild party” years ago, TV presenter Paddy McGuinness has claimed.

The 50-year-old Top Gear star said he was on a night out with the Duke of Sussex, One Direction bandmates and a group of footballers when he claimed he saw the royal family remove the photo from a wall because he didn’t want to . his grandmother to see his parties

Speaking on the Restless Natives podcast, McGuinness said the group was in an ‘underground’ club in Chelsea, London, where ‘all sorts of things were going on’.

He claimed the royal family “took off my T-shirt, was kissing and kissing me” and then “torn a picture of the Queen off the wall and said, ‘I can’t let her look at me while I’m am busy. this”.’

He did not reveal when this might have happened, but told podcast hosts Gordon Smart and Martin Compston that the club had a “secret door” for famous faces to use, which was surrounded by security cameras.

He said: ‘I get a tap on the shoulder and it’s Prince Harry… I thought that was crazy.’

‘He kept appearing and disappearing. I spoke to one of the security guys at the end [Harry] ripped off my T-shirt, and then he ****** rips a picture of the queen off the wall and says, “I can’t let her see me do this.”

He said he asked the prince’s guard, “What’s going to happen here?” and said the Metropolitan Police officer replied: ‘They will [the video taken on the security cameras] never see the light of day. This is one of the clubs where the royals go and let off steam.’

FEMAIL contacted police for comment.

McGuinness’ claim comes after Harry and Meghan’s Archewell Foundation suffered an £8.7 million drop in donations, according to its annual report.

Donations to the charity have fallen by $11 million (8.7 million euros) in the past year, pushing the figures into the red. The couple’s boss and right-hand man, James Holt, has been given a huge 280% pay rise, it was revealed today.

A US income tax return filed today showed that donations in 2022 had fallen to just over $2 million (£1.6 million) – down from $12.9 million (£10.3 million) in 2021, a astonishing drop of $11 million (£8.7 million). .

And its $9 million profit in 2021 has evaporated due to a lack of donations. The Archewell Foundation made a loss of $674,485 (£536,357) last year, as revenues were $2 million but costs were $2.67 million.

Last year there were only two major donors who each gave around $1 million (£795,210). The year before, an unknown wealthy donor gave them $10 million, but there was no repeat in 2022.

It follows a tumultuous year for the couple, which saw Harry’s vitriolic memoir, Spare, top the bestseller lists but their personal popularity ratings plummet.

They were also the subject of ridicule by popular television shows such as South Park and Family Guy, criticized after claims of a reportedly ‘near-catastrophic’ car chase in New York and lost their lucrative podcast deal with Spotify, where a senior executive labeled them ‘ ******* scammers’.

The couple founded their Archewell Foundation after leaving the royal family and say it is an “impact-driven global non-profit organization that puts compassion into action” that is “dedicated to a simple yet profound mission: show, do good.”

The Foundation employed five people, with salaries totaling $640,441 (£509,285) for the year. Harry and Meghan received no salary.

But executive director James Holt, considered the Sussexes’ right-hand man since Megxit, was paid $227,405 a year (£180,835), including a $20,000 (£15,904) bonus. This was a pay increase of around $170,000 (£133,000), compared to his starting salary of $59,846 (£47,641) the year before.

Holt’s 2021 salary did not reflect the full 12 months of work as he joined mid-year, it is understood.

Despite the 2022 loss, it appears the foundation, described as a ‘not-for-profit’ organisation, still has around $8.3m (£6.6m) in cash and assets.

Joey Graziadei is ready to hand out roses.

We weekly can exclusively debut the poster for season 28 of The Bachelor, including Joey’s catchphrase: “Game. Set. Agreement.”

The tennis coach, 29, appeared on season 20 of The bachelorettecompete for Charity Lawson‘s heart earlier this year. Joey finished second, with Charity accepting a proposal Dotun Olubeko. Joey commented After the last rose in August that he will always have “love” for Charity.

“It’s something I can’t even explain to anyone else. This was your story and like I said that day, I was lucky to be a part of it, so thank you for everything,” he told her at the time. “And you know I wish only the best for you, and whatever happens next.”

Jesse Palmer then announced that Joey is the next franchise leader.

“[It’s] Absolutely surreal,” he said. “It’s sinking in very slowly, but I’m doing my best to stay present and enjoy it. But it’s crazy. I’ll be the first to say it. I never expected this at all. [I] Little did I know this was what my life turned into. Crazy stuff! … I put [looking for The One on] put on the back burner for a while, [but] I’m ready to prioritize it again.”

Weeks later, production on Joey’s season began and wrapped at the end of last month. During the final of The golden bachelor on Monday, November 30, Bachelor Nation got a sneak peek at Joey’s season.

“I’m just a normal guy who was looking for my person,” his voiceover begins in the teaser.

As the journey comes to an end, you see Joey become emotional. “I just thought we’d have more time,” he says.

He continues to express his fears and hints that his frontrunner may not be all in.

“I’m ready to find my wife, but I’m afraid that someone I really start to express how I feel to won’t feel the same way,” Joey says. “I want to let go, I want to fully immerse myself in it and I try, but I notice that I’m holding myself back. The last time it was taken away, I don’t want to feel like that again.

The Bachelor Season 28 premieres on ABC Monday, January 22 at 8pm ET.

In the new poster of Singham Again, Ajay Devgn roars like a lion, but with Lord Ram in the background. Have you watched it yet?

Singham New poster again: Rohit Shetty shared a brand new poster of his next film on Tuesday – Singham again. The third film in India’s first police franchise Ajay Devgn in his most iconic role – Bajirao Singham. However, this time the film gets the divine intervention as Lord Ram appears in the background of the poster with Ajay in the front roaring like a lion.

The poster was also shared by the actor on his social media handles. On X (formerly Twitter), Ajay posted an interesting post and wrote, “He is powerful
He is Power
He is danger
He is Power
Singham will roar again! (sic)”

He is powerful
He is Power
He is danger
He is Power
Singham will roar again!#SinghamAgain @ADFFilms @RSPicturez @jiostudios @RelianceEnt #Cinergy pic.twitter.com/VnmlN0TsT3

— Ajay Devgn (@ajaydevgn) November 21, 2023

Ajay will be joined by many stars in the fifth film from Rohit’s cop verse. He has reunited with Kareena Kapoor Khan, who starred opposite him in the 2014 film ‘Singham Returns’. Akshay Kumar And Ranveer Singh also made special appearances in the film as police officers Sooryavanshi And Simbarespectively from the other cop films directed by Shetty. Singham returns also reportedly marks the entry of Deepika Padukone and Tiger Shroff as new agents in the universe.

The film will hit the screens as the big release on Independence Day next year. This is Ajay’s 14th on-screen appearance with Rohit Shetty. The duo has delivered successful films such as The Golmaal series, All the best, Sunday And Zameen among other things.

Meanwhile, as the new poster of Singham again went viral on Tuesday, with several fans taking to social media to highlight that the story may include a mention of Lord Ram in the film. One fan appreciated the actor’s look and wrote: “Looks menacing!!! Can’t wait to see one of our country’s most versatile actors #AjayDevgn reprise the character of #SinghamAgain. Bring it on!!! (sic),” said another, “Singham like shree ram (sic).”

Singham again is expected to open massively at the Box Office in August 2024. All the films in the police franchise were blockbusters at the box office. It will be interesting to see how this one goes one step further. Watch this space for the latest Box Office updates Singham again!

A Gen Z influencer who became the poster girl for TikTokers and enthusiastically shared Osama Bin Laden’s ‘Letter to America’ is a champagne socialist who quit her job at Amazon to make influencer videos, it has been revealed.

Lynette Adkins was one of many social media users to post their reactions to the letter, which the al-Qaeda leader wrote in an attempt to stop the September 11 attacks in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, which killed nearly 3,000 people. came to justify.

Videographers appeared to equate the terror leader’s views on Palestine with showing solidarity with the Palestinian people amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas, with some responding to his comments by saying: “My eyes have been opened.”

Adkins, from Austin, Texas, was one of the first and most prominent TikTokers to share the letter on her account, which had more than 177,000 followers but appears to have been deleted today.

The viral trend then gained momentum when American journalist Yashar Ali posted a compilation video of TikTokers’ reactions, including Adkins’s.

The supercut has been viewed more than 32 million times, more than 16 times the total views of the original TikToks that used the hashtag #lettertoamerica. The app has now removed this hashtag.

Nevertheless, Gen Z’s fascination with the letter appears to have been organic, as one influencer explains Rolling stone she had already seen clips encouraging people to read the document a week ago, before eventually appearing ‘all over’ her For You page.

Adkins told viewers, “I want everyone to stop doing what they’re doing right now and read ‘Letter to America.’ I feel like I’m going through an existential crisis right now.”

The content creator, who also has more than 36,000 followers on Instagram, became a social media star after using her platforms to bitch about working in a corporate job for Amazon.

After less than a year in the role, she quit to become a full-time influencer – documenting the process for all to see – and made almost $9,000 (£7,200) in one month alone from her videos and brand sponsorships.

Before she made a lot of money on social media, she started working in San Antonio at age 15 in an effort to ease the financial burden on her father, a real estate agent, and her mother, who works for an insurance company .

Many of her videos satirize corporate culture, and other users who picked up the Letter to America after she shared it appear to equate bin Laden with an anti-capitalist freedom fighter.

In an example of her champagne socialism, Adkins said, “The reason there is so much inequality in this country is not because there aren’t enough resources.

“It’s because there are plenty of resources, but the people at the top, like the 1%, have kept most of the world’s resources for themselves. And that made me realize that we can have everything, but that change has to happen.’

The ‘Letter to America’, dating from 2002, a year after the atrocities of September 11, was published in its entirety on the Guardian’s website, based on a translation it had obtained, under a link entitled ‘ Read bin Laden’s letter in full.

But the newspaper has now removed it after people started sharing it in the context of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

TikTok said it is “proactively and aggressively” removing the content and has launched an investigation into how it appeared on the social media site.

Bin Laden – who was killed by US forces in May 2011 during an operation in Pakistan – espoused deeply anti-Semitic views and conspiracy theories in the letter, saying the US military was “shamelessly helping the Jews in the fight against us.”

He also tried to justify the indiscriminate slaughter of American citizens because they indirectly finance the American military efforts through the payment of taxes.

He wrote: “The American people are the ones who pay the taxes that finance the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that attack and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies that occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets that occupy and destroy our homes. ensure the blockade of Iraq.

“These tax dollars are given to Israel so that it can continue to attack us and invade our country. So it is the American people who are funding the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the spending of this money however they want, through their elected candidates.”

Countdown mathematician Rachel Riley, who is Jewish, said on

She concluded with a “baffling” emoji, adding, “No, Osama Bin Laden is not misunderstood.”

Writer Frances Weetman, however, had a different view, claiming that the Guardian’s version of bin Laden’s extremist letter had been “sanitized” to remove the most extreme anti-Semitic elements.

She wrote: “The real question is not why idiotic leftist kids indoctrinated on Tiktok agree with Osama Bin Laden, but why the guardian originally published a sanitized version of his words that deletes the references to Jewish world power/capital. ‘

Some TikTok users have shared their discomfort over sharing the views of a notorious terrorist leader.

One user commented on a video: “There are literally so many ways to further Palestinian liberation other than encouraging bin Laden.”

A TikTok spokesperson said: “Content promoting this letter clearly violates our rules against supporting any form of terrorism. We are proactively and aggressively removing this content and investigating how it ended up on our platform.

“The number of videos on TikTok is small and reports that they are popular on our platform are inaccurate. This is not unique to TikTok and has appeared on multiple platforms and in the media.”

In the 2002 article accompanying the letter, The Guardian said the text was published in Arabic on a Saudi Arabian website used by al-Qaeda to spread messages to followers, and was sent to British extremists via email sent.

Visiting the page on which the letter was published now displays the following message: ‘This page previously contained a document containing, in translation, the full text of Osama bin Laden’s ‘letter to the American people’, as reported in the Observer on Sunday, November 24 2002.

“The document, which was published here the same day, was removed on November 15, 2023.”

The Guardian said in a statement about the letter’s removal: ‘The transcript published on our website twenty years ago has been shared widely on social media without full context.

“We therefore decided to remove it and direct readers to the news article in which it was originally contextualized.”

In 2016, Milo was celebrated in the MTV documentary Transformation, at the beginning of her gender transition from female to male, when she tried on Hawaiian shirts and said she felt “invincible.”

Seven years later, and Milo is back on screen, as a woman again, with a YouTube post about bitter regret over a transition that left her scarred, hairy and most likely barren.

“It turned out to be a big mistake,” says Milo in the video that went online on Wednesday.

“I keep thinking about how if I ever want to be seen as a woman by society, I now have to go through vocal training and need laser to get rid of my facial hair. But I’m just so tired.’

DailyMail.com is unable to verify Milo’s account, but her story echoes the story of the growing number of teens who quickly make ill-considered decisions to change gender and later experience regret and medical problems.

When Milo appeared in the MTV documentary, she became a poster child for a transgender movement that was new to most Americans at the time and not the hot-button political issue it is today.

At age 16, she was one of six trans and non-binary young people from Los Angeles to pose for the camera and get a wardrobe and style makeover.

Milo had started getting weekly testosterone injections and had changed her gender on official papers.

“I can’t imagine living my life as a woman,” Milo said on the show, wearing a plaid shirt.

Milo described the “amazing sense of relief I get when I think I’ll never have to do anything female for the rest of my life.”

Sitting next to him, Milo’s supportive mother, Kristin, described the “horror stories” she had heard about trans children committing suicide.

In hindsight, those comments from Milo and Kristin were red flags.

Today, many parents complain that doctors and therapists bully them into confirming their child’s decision to switch by suggesting that without support they would likely commit suicide.

Now Milo says she is “ashamed” of the documentary and “can’t bear to watch it.”

Months after it was filmed, Milo underwent “top surgery,” the surgical removal of her C-cup breasts.

Doctors gradually increased her dose of testosterone. Over the years, it caused her vagina to atrophy — a common symptom of female-to-male transitions, who suffer from dryness, irritation, and bleeding.

Because of the discomfort, she underwent a hysterectomy last year, at the age of 21.

“I just didn’t care about my reproductive organs,” she said in the video post.

“In my head I thought, ‘I don’t need these organs because I’m a man.’

Eight months later, she was back at the doctor.

Her ovaries weren’t removed during the hysterectomy, but one of them was twisted, ruptured and “died,” she said.

The other ovary “could be healthy,” she added.

Amid these mounting medical issues, Milo stopped taking testosterone this month.

She complains of mood swings, her receding hairline, deepening voice, chubby features and hairy belly that needs regular shaving.

“I’m a lot fatter and uglier than I used to be,” she said.

Milo looks back and explains her teenage mistake.

She says she was vulnerable, autistic, shy and socially awkward – all characteristics of teenage girls coming out as transgender.

“I had huge breasts,” she said.

“I just hated how I was seen. I didn’t like how guys looked at me. It made me very self-conscious.’

She discovered a radical gender ideology online and came to believe that her boyishness was actually gender dysphoria.

Doctors and therapists confirmed the change with hormones “quickly” and “easy,” she said.

“What I’ve done with my looks and my body has almost been a survival tactic or a form of protection from unwanted male attention,” she said.

The number of young Americans experiencing gender dysphoria and seeking puberty blockers, hormones, and even surgery has skyrocketed in recent years.

Prescriptions for puberty-suppressing drugs among under-18s have doubled between 2017 and 2021, while prescriptions for hormone therapies have seen a similar increase, health insurance reports show.

The increase is much stronger among girls. The number of top surgeries performed on girls under 18 has increased tenfold in the past decade, says a California study.

Proponents of gender-affirming care, as it’s known, say the rise is due to increased awareness of gender dysphoria and support among clinicians.

But some pundits, conservatives and parents warn of an ideologically driven fad.

Republicans this year passed laws against child sex reassignment care in 20 states.

Many have been taken to court. A federal judge on Tuesday declared the Arkansas law unconstitutional in a landmark ruling.

It’s not known exactly how many people change their minds and move out of transition, but estimates range from 1 to 25 percent of transgender people.

The transition Subreddit, a popular online forum, has about 48,100 followers.

Against this backdrop, Milo says she doesn’t want her “story to be politicized.”

“I believe that transgender people clearly exist. And there are hundreds, thousands or millions of transgender people who have transitioned and felt like this was the solution, and now they are much happier,” she said.

“It wasn’t the solution for me.”

Standing by their love story. Aaron Taylor Johnson And Sam Taylor Johnson have defended their relationship — and their age difference — over the years.

The couple originally met when Aaron auditioned for Sam’s directorial debut, Nowhere boy. According to the native of England, her now-husband did not have much availability due to his Super awesome movie schedule, so he auditioned at her house.

“It was so inconvenient,” said Sam, who was going through a divorce Jay Jopling at the time, recalled during a 2017 interview with The Sunday TimesUK. “In the end I thought, ‘Okay, he’s going to have to come to my house.’ I opened my door to John Lennon and I knew right away he was the man.”

The director noted that she shared a “connection” with Aaron as they worked on the project together, saying, “He was very intense and absolutely made up. [about us dating].”

In 2009, the couple announced they were engaged and expanded their family with two daughters. (Sam, for her part, was already a mother of two with Jopling.)

“I knew right away that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with this person,” says de Anna Karenina star told The British Telegraph in 2017. “I knew I wanted a family with her, I knew I wanted kids, and a month later she was pregnant with our first child.”

Shortly after their marriage in 2012, Aaron and Sam changed their surname to the joint Taylor-Johnson variation. The Marvel star said it was important to him to see his new name in the credits of his upcoming movies.

“Actually, I wanted it on Savages too, but they told me the posters were already out the door. Then they said, “Look, we hired Aaron Johnson,” he said The protector in 2015, adding that he fought to see the change with other projects. “I said, ‘I want it to change! This is important.’ It felt beautiful. It felt good.”

Over the years, Aaron and Sam have hit back at criticism over their 10-year age difference. In 2017, the Godzilla actor slammed the “pushy” response when he and Sam first made their relationship public.

“But because I dealt with that early in my career, I’ve probably gotten to a place where I’m more likely to just go, ‘Oh, f—k it’ instead of wanting to rip someone’s head off for asking questions that I don’t like,” he shared during an interview with New York magazine.

The photographer, meanwhile, praised the bond she had formed with Aaron. “I literally found my soul mate,” she said in 2017. “I feel so blessed: every day I wake up happy. We spend every minute of the day together.”

Sam continued: “My friends call him Benjamin Button because – on the outside – he has such a youth, and on the inside he is so wise and settled. He doesn’t like parties. He enjoys being at home and cooking for the family. He likes to walk the dogs. He loves his chickens – he collects the eggs and makes breakfast for everyone. He’s a great man.”

The Solos executive producer said she was not bothered by the age difference between her and Aaron due to their long-term union.

“We’ve been together for over a decade now, so I feel like it’s less of a conversation for people,” she shared The everyday beast in 2019. “It doesn’t worry me, and it’s not something that’s hard to talk about because it’s such a positive story, that ten years later we’re together and working together and building a strong family together. That can be a positive message for people out there.”

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