Tom Brady’s week has gone from bad to worse – and it’s only Monday.
The NFL legend found himself going from the target of online comments to the butt of the joke within hours on Monday.
The retired quarterback’s ex-wife announced she is pregnant and expecting her first child with jiu-jitsu pro partner Joaquim Valente.
The supermodel, 44, has been dating Valente, 35, since June 2023 – shortly after her split from Brad, 47, and this will be her third child and his first. She is reportedly “five or six months” pregnant.
It was the second blow of the day for the seven-time Super Bowl winner after being embroiled in a storm of controversy.
Tom Brady had a rough week amid his NFL scandal and his ex-wife’s pregnancy news
Gisele Bundchen is pregnant and expecting her first child with jiu-jitsu pro partner Joaquim Valente, People has confirmed – pictured in June 2024
He returned to the airwaves on Sunday for the eighth week of his broadcasting career, as he the Buffalo Bills‘ dominant 31-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks.
Brady, who is in the first season of his 10-year, $375 million deal with Fox Sports,as heard using a slur to describe Bills quarterback Josh Allen.
‘Sometimes he played like a rocket, like a high school student on a sugar high, but now he has the chaos under control. He’s like a storm coming into town and you don’t want that storm coming into this town,” Brady said while discussing the signal caller’s NFL journey toward the end of the first quarter.
“Spaz” is a slang term that is an abbreviation of the word “sp*stic,” an offensive term often used against someone who is clumsy or clumsy. It is considered an offensive slur.
Brady’s use of the derogatory term sparked backlash from NFL fans on social media, with many expressing bafflement and disbelief at the former quarterback’s use of the slur.
Many fans apparently couldn’t believe Brady said the term live on TV as they took to social media to wonder if their ears had deceived them.
“Did you hear Tom Brady call Josh Allen a ‘spaz’ in the first half of Bill’s game today? Very insulting to physically challenged people and their loved ones,” a shocked social media user posted on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I think he said Josh Allen ‘just shouldn’t play like a spaz,’ which somehow seems even worse to me. Sickening that that word is even in his vocabulary,” another commented.
Brady (R) sparked criticism when he used a shocking slur to describe Josh Allen (L).
The seven-time Super Bowl winner detailed Allen’s NFL journey live on Fox Sunday
“Thankful for the mute button,” a third said in response to a video of the controversial moment.
Another chimed in and expressed his disgust, writing, “Brady actually just said a player was playing “like a spaz” Ew.”
“The ONLY thing worse about watching your team suck the entire game is having to listen to the cold, boring, three day old dishwater @tombrady announce the game. #ShutUpDude,” another began, also addressing Brady touting skills. ‘ps: The comment ‘spaz’ was not necessary.’
Just hours later, Brady was again targeted by social media users when his ex-wife’s happy news broke.
The pregnancy joy comes two years after Bundchen and Brady split after 13 years of marriage.
Brady and Bundchen — who share two children together, son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11 — divorced on October 28, 2022.
The divorce filings found that the marriage had “irretrievably broken down.”
At the time, it was rumored that their split stemmed from the supermodel’s anger over Brady’s decision to retire earlier that year and return to the NFL for one more season.
Tom and Gisele confirmed they were divorcing in October 2022 after 13 years of marriage
Brady and Bundchen are parents to son Benjamin, 14, and daughter Vivian, 11, from her marriage to NFL GOAT Tom Brady – pictured together in 2018
Although Bundchen has vehemently denied the claims and insisted that the reason behind their split was much more innocent, claiming that the couple simply “grew apart” and realized they wanted “different things,” NFL fans still mock Brady for a football return in the light. from his ex’s family life.
“Come back to the Bucs and win another one,” one person joked in response to the announcement.
“Tom Brady really pumped up his family for ONE more season in the NFL. Like you might as well have tried for another five at that point,” said another.
“All because Tom Brady wouldn’t retire.. Damn,” a third joked.
Joaquim, a Brazilian jiu-jitsu instructor, owns a jiu-jitsu studio in Miami with his brothers Pedro and Gui Valente.
They started dating in June 2023, after first meeting in December 2021, when she sought jiu-jitsu training for her son and subsequently decided to take classes as well.
The duo sparked romance rumors when they were spotted together in Costa Rica in November 2022, two weeks after her divorce from Tom Brady was finalized.
Gisele denied they were in a relationship.
The model is pictured with Brady, their children, and Brady’s son with ex-partner Bridget Moynahan: Jack, 17
They started dating in June 2023, after first meeting in December 2021, when she sought jiu-jitsu training for her son and then decided to take classes as well.
Despite the questionable timeline of their relationship, Bundchen has denied cheating on her husband of 13 years.
“That’s a lie,” she told the New York Times in late March, explaining that she “doesn’t want to turn my life into a tabloid.”
“This is something that happens to many women who are blamed for having the courage to leave an unhealthy relationship and labeled as unfaithful,” Bundchen explains.
After months of romance, Bundchen confirmed her new relationship earlier this year, although she did not mention Valente.
Meanwhile, Brady was romantically linked to model Irina Shayk, but it is believed they have called it quits.
Earlier this year, Brady and Bundchen’s divorce, as well as her romance with Valente, provided fodder for much of the brutal material performed during the NFL icon’s Netflix roast.
And Brady admitted the cheeky jokes didn’t go over so well at home, as he revealed some of the pranks “affected” his kids during an episode of “The Pivot” with Fred Taylor, Ryan Clark and Channing Crowder.
‘I liked it when the jokes were about me. “I liked them so much,” he said. “I didn’t like how they affected my children.
“It was that bittersweet aspect of when you do something that you think is going in a certain direction, and then you realize that I wouldn’t do that again because of the way it affects the people in the world I care about most.” give, has influenced.
Brady and Bundchen’s divorce, as well as her romance with Valente, provided brutal material for Netflix’s roast of the NFL icon
The former quarterback revealed that some of the jokes ‘affected’ his children – Vivian, 11, Benjamin, 14, and Jack, 16 (L-R)
“It makes you a better parent in some ways when you go through it, because sometimes you’re naive.”
The former quarterback’s children weren’t the only ones upset about the roast, with Bundchen reportedly furious that they were the source of the relentless taunting.
According to People, Bundchen remained outraged by the jokes about her and Brady’s former marriage during the special, saying she was “deeply disappointed by the disrespectful portrayal of her family during Sunday night’s roast show.”
‘As always, [Bundchen’s] “The priority is to support her children who have been affected by the irresponsible content that was broadcast,” the insider continued.