The cause of death of Aryna Sabalenka’s boyfriend has been revealed, with Miami police reporting an ‘apparent suicide’.

Konstantin Koltsov, who played hockey for the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins, was declared dead by his former club Salavat Yulaev Ufa on social messaging site Telegram on Tuesday after the coach had a three-year relationship with Australian Open champion Sabalenka, 25 .

Sabalenka is in Miami preparing for the upcoming Miami Open, where she is seeded second, and Koltsov is said to have joined her in Florida before his shock wore off.

“It is with deep sadness that we inform you that Salavat Yulaev’s coach, Konstantin Koltsov, has passed away,” the Russian club’s statement read.

‘He was a strong and cheerful person, he was loved and respected by players, colleagues and fans. Konstantin wrote himself into the history of our club forever.

‘Koltsov won the Russian Championship and the Gagarin Cup as part of Salavat Yulaev and did a great job in the team’s technical staff.

“May his memory burn brightly.”

In a statement released Tuesday, Miami-Dade police confirmed that Bal Harbor police and firefighters were dispatched to the St Regis Bal Harbor Resort early Monday morning.

“The Miami-Dade Police Department, Homicide Bureau, responded and has taken over the investigation into the apparent suicide of Mr. Konstantin Koltsov. No foul play is suspected,” the statement concluded.

Earlier on Tuesday, Belarusian media outlets reported Telegraph reported that Koltsov died of “a dislodged blood clot.”

The death of the world number two’s partner comes just five years after the player lost her father Sergey following his sudden death at the age of 43.

Like Koltsov, Sabalenka’s father had also played professional hockey, and the Belarusian athlete has often spoken about the motivation her father gave her in her tennis playing.

After winning her second Australian Open title in January, Sabalenka achieved a feat she previously discussed in an episode of Netflix’s tennis docu-series Break Point.

“We had one dream: that I would win a few Grand Slams before I was 25,” said the then 24-year-old.

“Now I’m 24 and there’s zero in my pocket.”

Sabalenka and Koltsov are believed to have been dating for three years after they were first linked in June 2021 and the world number two has regularly posted photos of them together on her Instagram account.

“I love you @koltsov2021,” she wrote in a message with hearts and other emojis.

“Happy birthday my love. You are my dearest person, my best friend and my strongest support. Peace be with you, strength, patience and health.

‘I hope we get everything we planned. I love you.’

On International Women’s Day, Koltsov shared a photo gallery of Sabalenka, dedicated to the tennis star, with the caption: “Happy holidays, my dear, I love you dearly.”

Two months ago, Koltsov personally supported Sabalenka in Melbourne and watched her lift the Daphne Akhurst Memorial Cup for the second year in a row.

Koltsov is said to have three sons from his previous relationship with his ex-wife Yulia, named Daniel, Alexander and Stefan.

In the wake of the tragedy, fellow WTA tour member Sloane Stephens appeared to respond to the news on Twitter, writing: “That moment when you can actually feel the pain in your chest when you hear or see something that breaks your heart (broken heart ). emoji).’

The former world number three did not refer directly to Sabalenka, but many fans on social media site X believe her post was written in light of the news in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

Sabalenka lost to Emma Navarro in the last 16 at Indian Wells last week after knocking out former US Open champion Emma Raducanu, and is scheduled to play her first match at the Miami Open on Friday March 2022.

Known for his speed on the ice, Koltsov won the 2008 Russian Super League title with Salavat Yulaev and recently returned to the club as an assistant coach.

Koltsov was previously part of the technical staff of Dinamo Minsk and Spartak Moscow, and was also head coach at Brest and Dinamo Maladzyechna.

Jennifer Lopez And am Affleck had a date night at court with his son Samuel by their side.

The trio watched the Los Angeles Lakers take on the Golden State Warriors at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday, March 16. Lopez, 54, and Affleck, 51, who married in 2022, held hands as they watched the match in one photo.

Lopez wore a multi-colored jacket with jeans and gold hoop earrings, while Affleck donned a navy blue jacket and a red and blue flannel jacket with navy pants and a navy blue baseball cap. Samuel, 12, wore a blue Warriors hoodie with Steph Curry on the front side.

Affleck shares son Samuel and daughters Violet (18) and Seraphina (15) with ex-wife Jennifer Garner. For her part, Lopez welcomed twins Emme and Max with ex-husband Marc Anthony in February 2008. (Lopez and Anthony, 55, announced their divorce in July 2011 after seven years of marriage.)

Lopez’s kids have bonded with Affleck and Garner’s kids, and the three co-parents are constantly working to make sure they all spend time together.

“Jennifer, Jen and Ben have had a great relationship for quite some time,” a source exclusively shared We weekly in January. “They know that they will often all be attending the same events together, whether that be school performances, sports, etc.”

The insider shared that the trio “communicates quite often when it comes to their kids, making plans, etc.”

“They know that the ones who benefit most are the children and that’s all they care about,” the source said. “They have mutual respect for each other as parents and know how well all their children get along. They want to nurture and cherish those relationships and will do whatever it takes to show their support.”

The insider noted that there is no tension between Affleck and Garner, 51, adding that “everything that has happened in the past is water under the bridge at this point.” “It’s really a copacetic situation all around,” they said.

Affleck and Lopez initially started dating in 2002, and he popped the question later that year. The duo called off their engagement in 2004.

Affleck tied the knot with Garner in June 2005. The pair announced their separation in June 2015 and finalized their divorce in 2018.

After Affleck rekindled his romance with Lopez in 2021, a source exclusively shared Us that the couple had “Garner’s seal of approval.” The insider noted that Garner thinks Lopez is “a kind and wonderful person and a great mother.”

So you think you can dance right Maks Chmerkovskiy is a parenting professional, just like him and his wife Peta Murgatroyd get ready to welcome baby no. 3, and he shares his best-kept hacks with Us.

“Screen time is important because it is his time. I think [in] 2024, you can fight this, but you’re going to lose because he’s going to do that [learn] what we want him to do, which is socialization,” 44-year-old Chmerkovskiy said recently We weekly while we are talking about the eldest son Shai. “So he has a huge schedule after school, we kind of look back at it and say, ‘We need to adjust for next year because his play dates are the minimum.’ It’s because it’s this class, it’s that class. We take you there, so it means you do this, this and that. So we try to balance it. So when he gets home he says, ‘Do I now my time? Have I earned it?’ I said, ‘Yes, you did. Just do it.'”

Chmerkovskiy and Murgatroyd, 37, share sons Shai, 7, and Rio, 7 months. Murgatroyd is also currently pregnant with the couple’s third baby. Because Shai has reached different milestones than his siblings, there are certain rules that only apply to him for now, especially regarding screen time.

“My deal, though, is that it has to be informative and he has to learn something new,” Chmerkovskiy noted, adding that Shai gets to play Minecraft. “At first I thought, ‘I’m not sure about that.’ But then my friend, who also has young children, said, “This is the best way to program.” I was like, ‘Done. Here we go.’ You know what I mean? Because when I was seven, I didn’t know how to operate a screen, open it, close it, [say], ‘Dad, I’m trying to use WiFi.’ He’s seven. I didn’t know he could read all that.’

The professional dancer continued, “I didn’t know anything about this. So how am I going to look at it and say, ‘It’s to his detriment, he should be playing in the field and planting trees?’ Frankly, we are entering VR, or have already entered it [and] flying situations. I can’t take it back to tractor days. You know what I mean? You can’t avoid it. That’s how I treat it.”

While Chmerkovskiy sees the value in allowing Shai (and eventually Rio and baby No. 3) to use electronic devices, running their own social media pages is out of the question.

“I manage that. I mean, I want to have an account, [and] we are the type of family he can definitely benefit from,” Chmerkovskiy said Us. “So the accounts we have now are Shai and Rio’s… and I’m going to publish it. The only reason I do this is because for me it is a low maintenance approach so he can have it early on.”

Chmerkovskiy noted that when his boys “come of age,” he will transfer the accounts so they don’t have to “start all over again” and build a profile.

“That has value in my opinion,” he noted. “If I’m wrong, it’s very easy to delete it. It’s just two clicks and it’s out. What I’m absolutely against is him having a phone with all that on it. …I know he’s smart enough to get a device that we can learn to use both ways, but it won’t be [a] device that TikTok will be on, that’s for sure.”

Watch the video above for more of Chmerkovskiy’s best parenting tips and tricks.

With reporting by Christina Garibaldi

The state of Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over the death of Adrian Jones, who was murdered by his father and fed to pigs.

The lawsuit, filed in 2017 by the child’s mother and relatives, said the state child protection agency took him from an abusive home before starving and torturing him.

Police found the 7-year-old’s remains in a pigsty on the property of his father and stepmother Michael and Heather Jones in November 2015.

Both are serving 25 years to life sentences for his murder, after beating Adrian and locking him in a shower stall and watching him deteriorate on surveillance camera.

Gov. Laura Kelly and top leaders of the Kansas Legislature approved the settlement Tuesday during a brief public meeting.

The Kansas Department for Children and Families received reports that Adrian was being abused several years before his death.

Their last physical contact with him was nearly four years before his death, according to more than 2,000 pages of documents released by the agency in 2017.

The records showed that all three moved regularly between communities in Kansas and Missouri.

The lawsuit argued that the state and social workers “could have intervened at any time and saved Adrian,” but “chose to act as disinterested bystanders.”

The Kansas agency argued that frequent moves made it difficult to monitor the boy.

Senate Minority Leader Dinah Sykes, one of the lawmakers who approved the settlement, said she believes the state bears “a lot of responsibility” for what happened.

Kelly said the problem wasn’t the potential harm in a lawsuit, but the lawsuit distracting from “the mission at hand” to improve the child welfare system.

“It really had to do with us wanting to get that settled and not spend time litigating in court for months, maybe even years,” she said.

Matt Birch, a lawyer representing the family, said: “This has been a long journey for Adrian’s family.

“The most important thing for the family was to hopefully make a change and make sure this is less likely to happen in the future.”

Police had responded to the home in 2015 for a domestic violence call, with Heather Jones accusing Michael Jones of beating and choking her.

Once there, she blurted out that the boy’s father had fed him to their six feeder pigs two months earlier, in late September.

The investigation into her claims revealed harrowing evidence of years of abuse with Heather, sickeningly proud of the way she tortured her stepson and captured it in photographs.

He was locked behind a plywood door in a shower, forced to stand in standing water up to his neck for hours, chained, tied up, starved and beaten.

His stepmother called him “the boy” instead of using his first name. While she and Adrian’s father cared for their six girls, he was accused of abuse of the worst kind.

The injuries photographed included deep cuts to his face and lips, suffered while trying to fight his way out of the cardboard cell his parents had created for him in a shower stall.

He was also photographed with a cutting board tube taped to his chest and strapped to an inversion table.

The pair were arrested in 2015. Heather pleaded guilty to murder in November 2016 and was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 25 years.

In May 2017, Michael Jones received the same sentence after also pleading guilty in March that year.

In 2013, Adrian told a staff member at the Children’s Department in Missouri, where the family lived at the time, that his father kept hitting him in the head.

“My dad keeps hitting me on the head and punching me in the stomach and my mom keeps pulling on my ears and it really hurts.

‘Mom and dad lock me in my room alone. Mommy and daddy can’t feed me,” he said during the interview, which was promoted by an anonymous phone call raising concerns about Adrian’s well-being.

Shockingly, he was allowed to continue living with the couple and shortly thereafter they moved to Kansas City, Kansas.

When he died, Adrian was a little bag of bones and his last months were hell.

Instead of a proper burial, the child was fed to pigs that his father had bought specifically to get rid of his emaciated body.

The boy’s death was followed by a multi-year overhaul of child welfare system laws.

In 2021, “Adrian’s Law” required officers and case workers to visually observe children suspected of being victims of abuse or neglect.

The state has also taken steps to improve training for doctors to recognize abuse and provide “wraparound” services to struggling families.

Birch said he and the family hope that with the lawsuit and the 2021 law, “more eyes will be on these children.”

Adrian’s relatives also filed a lawsuit in 2017 in Jackson County, Missouri, also in the Kansas City area, against officials in that state.

The case was settled in 2020, but details were not immediately available and Birch said he could not comment.

The moment the doorbell rang, Claire Throssell knew the worst had happened. Hands trembling as she opened the door, she saw a police officer on the doorstep.

Frozen to the spot, she begged him: ‘What has he done?’ The look in the policeman’s eyes confirmed her worst fears.

Claire’s abusive ex-husband, whom she had finally plucked up the courage to leave six months earlier, had done exactly what she had warned the family court he would do if given unsupervised access to their sons. He had taken their lives, and his own, to get back at her for leaving him.

It is a tale of such unspeakable horror that, at times, Claire is too overcome with emotion to speak.

Having lured their sons, Jack, 12, and Paul, nine, into the loft to play with a train set he’d bought that day, Darren Sykes had set 14 petrol-fuelled fires around the family home, blocking the exits with padlocks and furniture, before locking the hatch behind them.

Despite the boys’ brave attempts to escape, all three had suffered fatal injuries by the time the fire brigade managed to break down the door. Claire, thanks to a mercy dash to hospital, got to hold her sons as they died.

‘There is no more wonderful feeling in the world than holding your babies when they’re born, and no worse one than cradling them as they take their last breaths,’ says Claire.

‘I felt this searing pain in my heart and honestly thought I was going to die too. I wanted to. I had nothing left to live for.’

As well as unending grief, however, Claire felt searing anger that still burns to this day. Not only towards Sykes, but to the authorities that allowed him unsupervised access to her precious sons — despite years of abuse.

‘I warned social workers and the family court that he was evil enough to kill our sons,’ she says, tears filling her eyes. ‘But no one listened and he was granted five hours’ unsupervised weekly access.

‘I said, “What about the rights of the child? They don’t want to see him.”

‘The judge who signed that court order signed their death warrant.’

Claire says her sons were terrified of their father and would spray themselves with her perfume before visiting him so they’d have her scent with them as a form of comfort.

‘My children were so scared of him that they’d beg me not to make them see him. But I had no choice, the court had ordered it. It broke my heart.’

This sense of injustice has propelled Claire, now 52, to campaign tirelessly to stop unsafe child contact with dangerous perpetrators of domestic abuse.

This year marks the tenth anniversary of her sons’ deaths, and Claire, who received an MBE in 2020 for campaigning on domestic abuse, is determined to bring about a law to ensure children’s safety is at the heart of any parental contact decisions.

This would include a review of the ‘presumption of parental involvement’ in children’s lives in the family courts. This presumption assumes that the involvement of a parent in a child’s life will further the child’s welfare, and was designed so that one parent was not able to exclude their ex-partner from their child’s life.

Part of the Children Act 1989, this presumption is supposed to exclude cases where involvement with a parent would put the child at risk of harm. However, campaigners such as Claire have long believed that the family courts’ ‘pro-contact culture’ means the criteria are not being enforced nearly rigorously enough — and children including Jack and Paul are paying the price.

Claire, together with the charity Women’s Aid, is calling on the Government to make a commitment to child safety, saying the family courts must not allow known abusers access to their children.

Claire’s Child First petition to bring this before Parliament currently has 80,577 of the 100,000 signatures needed.

Frustratingly, her first petition got as far as the House of Lords — but when Boris Johnson resigned as prime minister in 2022, her campaign went with him, meaning Claire had to re-start it from scratch.

‘I live with an open wound that never heals, never stops bleeding. There are times — Mother’s Day, their birthdays, anniversaries — when that wound gets deeper,’ she says.

‘What keeps me going is a determination to help create a change in the law that gives hope to other women and children. I don’t want this to happen to anyone else.’

Claire’s first fateful meeting with Darren Sykes was when she was 25 and they were working for the same company — she as a bookkeeper and him a carpet estimator.

‘He asked me out and, when I turned him down, he sent me a red rose every day for three weeks until I agreed to go on a date,’ says Claire, grimacing at the memory. ‘Now I know that’s love-bombing, typically narcissistic behaviour, but back then I had no such understanding.

 ‘I fell for it, thinking: “He really must care about me.” In fact he was conditioning me to think nobody else could love me like he did.’

After a two-year courtship, they married. Claire says that, although he was possessive and seemed insecure, it wasn’t until their eldest son was born that his ‘nasty’ side truly emerged. ‘The mask just came off,’ she says. ‘He’d say: “You’re not interested in me now, you’ve got what you want.” He couldn’t bear no longer being the centre of attention.’

Paul came along three years later. When the boys grew, as well as directing his rages at Claire — throwing remote controls at her head, or plates of food that didn’t meet his ‘standards’ — Sykes turned on them, too.

After Claire left Sykes, the court deemed that Claire’s evidence — that he forced Paul, daily, to eat every scrap of food on his plate, leading to frequent vomiting at the dinner table; hit the boys on the back of the head if they didn’t obey his orders quickly enough; and threw their clothes onto the outside patio when they left them on their bedroom floors — was not serious enough to warrant him being denied unsupervised access.

Nor did the judge think that her reason for finally plucking up the courage to leave was grounds for keeping Sykes from his sons. Claire left after she stepped in to prevent Sykes punching Jack in the face, and he had then hit her instead, spinning her round and knocking her down a flight of stairs.

She had told the boys, who had hurtled downstairs to check she was OK, to run to the car, Sykes’s words: ‘Look what you made me do’, ringing in their ears. Bruised from her fall, Claire then drove the three of them to her mother’s, where they lived for the next six months.

Claire had a ‘gut instinct’ that Sykes, whom she refused to let see the boys for the first three months, would harm their children and was ‘deeply frustrated’ that no one believed her.

‘At the access hearing in the July, he was told he wasn’t allowed to have them overnight or at mealtimes — as he would force Paul to eat until he was sick — so they knew he was a threat to them,’ she says. ‘And yet they didn’t stop him seeing my boys during the day.’

Having contravened the terms of the court-ordered visitation agreement — which allowed him to have the boys for two hours on Wednesdays and three on Sundays — by bringing them back late on several occasions, Sykes feared he would lose access at the next court hearing.

So on Wednesday, October 22, 2014, two weeks after Claire had divorced him for ‘unreasonable behaviour’, he sent messages to the boys telling them he had bought a £600 train set and ‘all I need now are two engine drivers’. He later picked them up from their grandmother’s house while Claire was at work and took them to the family home.

While they were in the attic, innocently playing with the train set, Sykes set fires all around the house before pulling up the loft hatch and locking them in.

From there, Sykes sent messages to six friends saying he was ‘going to be at peace’.

Claire cannot bear to contemplate the terror her sons must have felt in the minutes that followed. Brave little Jack made a valiant effort to escape, opening the hatch and pulling his younger brother Paul with him. However, he fell onto the landing below, leaving Paul suspended from the opening to the loft, which is where a fireman found him.

‘Jack told the fireman: “My dad did this and he did it on purpose”,’ says Claire. ‘He said the same to a policeman, and later to a consultant at the hospital.

‘He wanted to make sure that those who refused to believe what his dad was capable of knew exactly what he’d done.’

The police officer who broke the news to Claire that she must go with him to Sheffield Children’s Hospital must have known that the boys’ injuries were life-threatening. However, he focused on getting her there quickly, leaving doctors to break the terrible news. The smoke inhalation had been too severe for Paul’s nine-year-old lungs to survive.

‘When I walked in, a doctor asked, “Are you their mum?” and, when I told him, “Yes”, he replied, “I’m very sorry but we’re going to let Paul go now, in your arms.”

‘Confused, I asked what he meant by “go”. He explained there was nothing more they could do,’ recalls Claire, closing her eyes. ‘I just scooped him up in my arms and said: “Come on Paul, you can’t leave. Please stay.”

‘Then I watched his beautiful blue eyes turn grey as the life went out of him, rocking him in my arms and sobbing so much his hair was soaked with my tears.

‘They gave us a moment and then said I had to leave him as my little boy was “a crime scene”.’

Claire mourned Paul’s death as she kept a round-the-clock vigil at the bedside of Jack, 12, sedated after suffering burns over 56 per cent of his body.

News reached her that Sykes had also died from his injuries, meaning, to her fury, he would not face the consequences of his ‘evil’ actions.

Incredibly, Claire was asked if she would like ‘to take responsibility’ for her ex-husband’s body — an offer she declined in no uncertain terms.

Claire had been advised by doctors to speak to Jack as if his little brother, whom he had done his best to rescue, was still alive, in the hope this would give him an incentive to fight for survival.

However, his burns were so extensive his vital organs were failing and, five days after the blaze, after several surgeries, doctors delivered the devastating news that there was nothing more they could do.

‘I held him in my arms as they switched off the machines. I will never forget the noise of the monitor at the end, that continual sound, knowing he was gone,’ says Claire.

‘It’s a moment that haunts me to this day.’

It’s thanks to her own mum, now 83, who forced Claire out of bed and insisted she eat, that she kept going in those early months, which she spent wrapped in her sons’ blankets on her mother’s sofa.

Claire found it particularly hard to bear that her sons’ death certificates state they were ‘unlawfully killed’, rather than murdered, because Sykes never stood trial.

But this was very much a premeditated act. In the weeks after the fire, it emerged that Sykes had cancelled the house insurance in June, written to his bank stating Claire would have sole responsibility for the outstanding £50,000 mortgage and transferred thousands of pounds of joint assets into the account of a new girlfriend he’d met online.

‘Taking my precious sons was not enough for him, he wanted to make sure I was homeless and penniless too,’ says Claire.

The three-bedroom semi-detached house in South Yorkshire was razed to the ground but, in an act of generosity that still makes Claire emotional to recall, her local community rallied round, raising £50,000 for materials, while local tradespeople donated their time to rebuild it.

Claire was able to sell it, pay off the outstanding mortgage and buy a small flat, enabling her to stay in her village, Penistone.

‘Jack and Paul were laid to rest here, with my father, and I never want to be far from them,’ she says. ‘I don’t know how I’d have survived without the support of the wonderful people in my village.’

She believes that the much-vaunted issue of parental alienation, in which one parent turns a child against another, is clouding the judgment of social workers, the Child and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (CAFCASS), and the courts, meaning children’s safety is no longer the priority it should be when access arrangements are being made.

There were 19 child homicides, including Jack and Paul, at the hands of parents who were known abusers between 2004 and 2014. Although there are no records, Claire believes there have been a further 30 in the decade since.

A revision of the legislation, which would have put the onus on the parent with a history of abuse to prove that their children were safe to have unsupervised access, was passed through the House of Commons in 2021 — but then blocked in the Lords.

Claire says she won’t stop until her petition gets the 100,000 signatures it needs for this to go back before Parliament for reconsideration.

‘Holding my sons in my arms, as they took their last breaths, I promised I wouldn’t let what they’d been through happen to any more children,’ says Claire. ‘I believe this is the reason I’m still here, a mother without children.

‘And I will keep on trying until the day I can go and put my hand on their stone, where they sleep, and say, “We’ve done it”.’

MARK WILLIAMS’ son has been tipped for success after an impressive performance in a junior tournament.

A video of Joel, 11, at the European Championships in Sarajevo went viral for his hoarding skills.

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Despite his young age, he played in the under-16 category, which includes players up to the age of 16.

Joel narrowly lost to opponent Jenson Schmid that day, despite Schmid being older than the young potter.

The video, which was uploaded to

One fan made an eerily accurate prediction in the comments: “Joel will win his first pro title in 2029. Mark my words.”

Another fan said: “So proud of Mark Williams’ son! Continue to shine in the U16 Euro Championship! ”

A third wrote: “So proud of his talent! Go Mark Williams Jr! ”

While a fourth wrote: “Left handed, similar bridge, this takes me back to watching his old man from over 30 years ago. Beautiful stuff.”

Williams Sr, 48, is a snooker legend who has been active on the professional circuit since 1992.

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He is a three-time world champion, with his most recent World Championship win coming in 2018.

His most successful season came in 2002-03, when he won the illustrious ‘Triple Crown’ consisting of the British Championship, the Masters and the World Championship.

‘The Welsh Potting Machine’ is still an active player on the circuit, and there could be a chance that his son will one day become a professional along with him if this clip is anything to go by.

Cristiano Ronaldo made Paris Fashion Week a family affair by bringing his children to support their mother, Georgina Rodriguez.

On Friday, March 1, the model walked the runway at the Vetements Womenswear Fall/Winter 2024-2025 show as her family proudly watched from the front row.

Ronaldo, 39, and son Cristiano Jr13 (whose mother has never been publicly identified), daughter Alana5, and twins Eva Marie And Mateo, 6, sat together and admired Rodriguez, 30, as she walked the runway with a sleek ponytail, wearing a red floor-length dress with white trim that trailed behind her. (Daughter Bellawho turns 2 in April was not present.)

The influencer’s sporty dress paid tribute to Ronaldo and featured the number 7 on the front, which he wore while playing for Manchester United, with the footballer’s surname above it.

When Rodriguez turned around, it was revealed that Ronaldo had signed the back of it and written a sweet love note. “For the love of my life Gio x Vetements. Cristiano Ronaldo,” the message said.

Ahead of their family’s trip abroad (they are currently based in Saudi Arabia amid Ronaldo’s contract to play in the Saudi Professional Football League), Rodriguez hinted to her social media followers that they were all traveling to a mysterious location by share some photos on her Instagram.

“A un lugar de fantasía con mis bebés,” the Argentina native captioned her post, which translates in English to “On my way to a fantasy place with my babies.”

Her caption also included several emojis, including a heart, a carousel horse, a Ferris wheel and a roller coaster.

In the first image, Rodriguez was photographed posing in front of a private plane while holding a Chanel bag while wearing a gray fur coat and sweatpants. In the second photo, the couple’s children, dressed in colorful loungewear, walked past several planes on their way to their own plane.

She then gave viewers a glimpse into the family’s flight by revealing photos of playing cards and an adorable drawing one of her children made as they flew in the clouds.

Rodriguez and Ronaldo have been dating since 2016. The couple met at a Gucci store where she was a sales assistant at the time and have been together ever since.

In 2022, they were seen together in a reality show on Netflix, I’m Georgina. During the first season, they opened up and described what their relationship was like when they first got together.

“A lot of times he would come after work,” Rodriguez recalled in one episode. “He was going to come, I remember once, in a Bugatti. My colleagues went crazy. They come there by bus and I would leave in a Bugatti. I mean, people couldn’t believe it.”

Adam Sandler is easily a favorite when it comes to laughs, but when it comes to fatherhood, the actor takes his role quite seriously.

Sandler shares daughters Sadie Madison And Sunny Madeline with wife Jackie Sandler (née Titone), whom he met on the 1999 set Big daddy. Adam popped the question in 2002 and the couple married a year later.

The pair expanded their family three years later when they welcomed Sadie. Sunny was born in 2008.

Since becoming a dad, Adam hasn’t shied away from sharing his experiences, including how fatherhood has changed him in his new and relatable perspective on a wild night as a dad. He has also said that they aim to follow in his footsteps – and they have already started to do so.

Sadie and Sunny starred in projects like 2023 You’re so not invited to my Bat Mitzvah, where they played Adam’s daughters on screen, and performed in 2010 Adults and 2020 Hubie Halloween. They recently played children’s roles (Sadie as Jayda and Sunny as Summer) in Netflix Lionwhere Adam played the title character, a lizard trying to escape his life as a classroom pet.

Adam comes along to watch Sadie and Sunny grow up. Keep scrolling for some of Adam’s most unforgettable quotes about fatherhood over the years:

2004

Before welcoming Sunny and Sadie, Adam dreamed of one day becoming a father. “I only recently started trying and doing my best,” he said news reporter Paul Fischer before the 2004 release Spangels. “It feels good to try, but playing a dad makes me a little older. I now see that I take it more seriously and I want that lifestyle and I also want children.”

July 2007

During an interview with Jay LenoAdam said his outlook on life changed after he welcomed Sadie. “I always wanted to live, now I want to live even more,” he noted. “My pursuit of life is that I just behaved differently now.”

He continued, “I want to be there for my child when my child is older. When I have shots of Southern Comfort and such, I always take a multivitamin right after. I recently had fifteen multivitamins and the next morning it was the healthiest crap I’ve ever taken in my life.

June 2010

As a celebrity dad, it can be tempting to give your children what you never had growing up. But Adam is determined to keep his daughters grounded. He told the Boston Herald, “The idea of ​​my children being spoiled, I go to sleep thinking about it and I wake up thinking about it. I’m trying to do the right thing. With the amount of money I have, it is difficult to raise children the way I was raised, as the son of an electrician.”

True to form, he continued with a joke, “I took the west and north wings of those guys’ house. So they are not allowed in there.”

June 2014

“My children give me the most joy, but there are life adjustments. I don’t go out with anyone after 9:30 at night,” Adam said KnowMore.tv. “I eat at six or seven o’clock. If someone makes me stay out until half past ten at night, I’m angry the whole next day because I’m exhausted.”

Adam shared a sweet story, adding: “This is wild. Last night my wife and I fell asleep at eight o’clock and we said, ‘No, we will not give in to this sleep. Maybe we should watch a movie after the kids fall asleep.’ Well, the kids didn’t fall. I’m in a room and I say, “Twenty minutes until they fall asleep.” Before I know it, I walk out of the room and my wife and my other daughter are curled up and sleeping. I’m up half the night with the other one. Welcome to parenthood.”

June 2014

“Honestly, I’m like Santa Claus at school,” Adam said KnowMore.tv. “The children love me and flock around me. It doesn’t make me cool. I’m just a man with a lot of children around him.”

He joked that he also loads them with In-N-Out burgers, “With extra ketchup.”

April 2017

Although they have appeared in a handful of films with their father, Sadie and Sunny don’t consider watching his family-friendly films to be a fun time.

He known person they “beg” to see his R-rated films, but when it comes to PG-13, “Every time, after about 20 minutes, I see them drop out.” Then I hear them, they’re nervous to say, but: ‘Can we watch something else?’

They also want an inside joke of fans shouting lines from movies like Big daddy And Happy Gilmore against him on the street.

“Those people are always shouting things at you on the street and I don’t know what they’re talking about,” Adam told him. Still, he gushed, “I love them more than anything.”

November 2023

Adam said during an appearance that his daughters made their mark in Hollywood The Jennifer Hudson Show, saying, “They both like it, they both talk about it.”

Adam added: “I just want them to be happy and this is the case [the] kind of things they talk about. My eldest daughter wants to go to university for it and they are both very good. They both think about it a lot and work hard on it, so we’ll see what happens.”

Sadie, Sunny and Jackie also appeared alongside Adam Adults, adults 2 And Pixels.

February 2024

Even though Sadie and Sunny lent their voices Lion, they are still typical teenage daughters. “They still don’t talk to you. They’re going to do their thing,” he says said at the premiere of his film Spaceman.

He continued, “They do their best, and then they go about their lives. I stand to the side and say, ‘I love you.’ I often say ‘I love you’ to them.”

Dwayne Johnson regrets not making things right with his late WWE wrestler father Rocky ‘Soulman’ Johnsonbefore his sudden death in 2020.

The Black Adam actor, 51, took to Instagram on Friday, March 1, to share a throwback video about himself as a child and how his father raised a title belt in the air after a wrestling match.

“Just delivering flowers to heaven to my old man, Rocky ‘Soulman’ Johnson,” Dwayne captioned the post. “My father, along with ‘Mr USA’ Tony Atlas, made professional wrestling history by becoming the first ever Black Heavyweight Tag Team Champions for the @WWE.”

He continued: “He came the hard way and was groundbreaking for all of us men of color – in every sport and level of entertainment. But it was also very important to him to pave the way for all men, regardless of skin color – it didn’t matter. I regret in this life that I never had the chance to say goodbye to him because he died suddenly. I regret not being able to reconcile our complicated father/son relationship before I lost him. Raised me with tough fatherly love and an even tougher hand. The more I live, the more grateful I am for it.”

Dwayne concluded his post by saying, “See you down the road, Soulman .”

Fans shared their condolences and memories of Dwayne’s father in the comments section. “WOW! Your dad was definitely an inspiration,” one user wrote. A second added, “I saw your dad wrestle in WCCW in Dallas when I was a kid.”

The Rock has spoken out about his father, who died of a heart attack in January 2020, often expressing regret for not putting their differences aside. The two were not on speaking terms at the time of Rocky’s death.

In August 2023, Dwayne shared an Instagram video of himself speaking to an audience for his father’s birthday.

“I wish I had one more chance,” he said in the video, holding back tears. “I wish I had one more chance to say ‘goodbye,’ to say ‘I love you,’ to say ‘thank you,’ to say ‘I respect you.’ But I have the feeling he’s watching. He listens.”

He continued, “My father taught me that ‘respect is given when it’s earned, so go out and earn it.’ Basically he’d say, ‘So go out there and earn it.’ He made sure I was in the gym, even when I was five he kicked me on the wrestling mats.

Shortly after his father’s death, Dwayne shared a throwback video of his father’s wrestling.

“I love you,” he captioned the Instagram post. “You broke the color barriers, became a ring legend and blazed a trail through the ring [sic] this world. I was the boy who sat on the chairs and watched you and adored you, my hero from a distance.”

Rocky began his professional wrestling career in the mid-1960s and retired in 1991. The father-son duo were once close, with Dwayne gifting his father a new home in March 2019, noting that it “felt good” to give him something so special to give.

A month earlier, Dwayne called his father to tell him he wanted to ‘do something for’ [him]’ by buying him a house. The Jungle cruise star shared how the conversation unfolded with his father in a Instagram video.

“It’s a big weekend, he’s going to look at properties,” Dwayne said of his father in the clip. “He’s a Florida guy, so he goes to North Florida and looks and he’s like, ‘I’m so excited.’ I’m so nervous too.’ My father is an old-fashioned, tough guy.”

Adam Sandler may be one of the most beloved actors in Hollywood, but that doesn’t mean he’s cool, calm and collected with every celebrity who crosses his path – especially when it Taylor Swift.

Sandler, 57, revealed that the pop star, 34, is a star that makes him nervous as he appears on SiriusXM’s Monday, Feb. 26 episode Conan O’Brien needs a friend.

“[It’s] because of what she means to my children,” he explained, referring to daughters Sadie And Sunnywhich he shares with his wife Jackie Sandler. “I get a little nervous just because I don’t want to ruin it for my kids. So I’m kind of like, ‘Taylor Taylor,’ I’m talking a little too loud or something. I don’t act as cool as I can.”

Conan O’Brien agreed with Adam’s assessment, noting that Swift was on “a whole different level.”

The Spaceman The star further praised Swift, telling O’Brien, 60, that he is simply in awe of everything she does.

“People talk about The Beatles and her. I mean, man, so many big hits. There is not a word my children don’t know,” he said before confessing that he could recite all the lyrics to her songs.

‘I know them too, by the way,’ Adam continued… ‘But [my kids] know them inside and out. It’s just, remember The Beatles… every song on the record, you knew, that’s Taylor Swift too. There simply isn’t a song you can skip. You say, ‘Oh, that’s damn cool.’

The Happy Gilmore The star’s family’s Swiftie status is by no means a secret. In 2019, Sadie, 17, and Sunny, 15, performed their own rendition of Swift’s “Lover” for a charity event. Adam and Sunny also revived the film coverage in 2023 during the comedian’s stop in Oklahoma City on his I’ve missed you tour.

In October 2023, Adam took his wife and kids to the red carpet premiere of the Grammy winner’s concert film. In a clip shared via X, Swift could be seen running up and greeting them with hugs before they headed inside for the event.

Swift is currently overseas, having just wrapped up her Australian concerts worldwide Eras tour. Her next stop is Singapore for the Southeast Asian leg. She is expected to sing all her hits for six sold-out shows at the National Stadium, starting March 2, over the course of two weekends.