
FILE – On this Sept. 13, 2016 file photograph, actress Shailene Woodley attends the premiere of “Snowden” in New York. Woodley was arrested throughout a protest of the four-state Dakota Entry pipeline in southern North Dakota. Morton County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Rob Keller says the “Divergent” star was arrested Monday, Oct. 10, for legal trespass and interesting in a riot throughout a protest at a building web site that concerned about 300 individuals. (Picture by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)
A “numb” Aaron Rodgers stated he would “take a while away” to consider his future, following the Inexperienced Bay Packers’ beautiful loss to the 49ers in Saturday night time’s NFC divisional playoff sport.
Even when that “time away” contains his film star fiancée, Shailene Woodley, it’s exhausting to think about that the couple would generate the extent of pleasure and good will they loved final 12 months, after they stunned followers with information of their secret engagement and delighted them with their Instagram video about Rodgers guest-hosting “Jeopardy!” or the various photographs shared of their travels to Mexico, Disney World, the Kentucky Derby and Maui.
📸 | Extra photographs of Shailene Woodley, Aaron Rodgers, Miles Teller and Keleigh Sperry in Hawaii. https://t.co/WNwHYqXOs3pic.twitter.com/wPpTDj05vV
— Shailene Woodley Updates (@PlanetShailene) Might 26, 2021
Truthful or not, Rodgers’ fall from grace over his incendiary anti-vaccination feedback and the Packers’ beautiful loss to the 49ers Saturday night time is more likely to renew questions on his relationship with Woodley.
After the once-well-regarded NFL quarterback, 38, and the “Huge Little Lies” star, 30, revealed final winter that they'd begun relationship in July 2020, in the course of the pandemic lockdown, they emerged as America’s favourite new superstar tremendous couple. They got here throughout as fun-loving, adventurous and never that desperate to take themselves too severely.
Take a look at this episode of Walt Disney World Minute to listen to @shailenewoodley and @AaronRodgers12 chat about their love of Star Wars, favourite Disney songs and flicks, and extra throughout a latest go to to Walt Disney World Resort: https://t.co/6Jg6uHxdJS ✨
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— Walt Disney World (@WaltDisneyWorld) April 18, 2021
That glow across the couple disappeared after Rodgers turned the butt of jokes, or a lot worse, due to his COVID feedback. He was accused of disseminating misinformation a couple of international pandemic and being an conceited, narcissistic crackpot with a persecution advanced who rails concerning the “woke mob” and being “canceled.” Woodley turned caught up in Rodgers’ controversy as a result of she has lengthy been an advocate for various medicines and pure, natural treatments.
In the meantime, there additionally has been a rising realization that the Chico-reared former Cal participant has been performing like a “diva” in regard to enjoying for Inexperienced Bay, and has in any other case emerged as “a really unusual man,” stated “The Ringer” CEO Invoice Simmons.
Following the top-seeded Packers’ dramatic 13-10 loss to San Francisco on the ultimate play of Saturday night time’s sport, Rodgers was the topic of “unparalleled” roasting by sports activities analysts and folks on social media, as Simmons stated on his podcast Sunday night time. Critics questioned whether or not he deserves to win a second-straight NFL Most Invaluable Participant award, saying he shares accountability for Saturday night time’s loss and has in all probability been overrated all alongside as a result of he has failed for the previous 12 years to get his crew again to the Tremendous Bowl.
Does anybody else have completely no sympathy for Aaron Rodgers? pic.twitter.com/qvHo2SaNHv
— Tim O'Brien (@TimOBrien) January 23, 2022
However Woodley additionally was swept up by all of the schadenfreude.
Time to go away, Shailene. Solely gonna worsen from right here.
— Jim (@EclecTweetz) January 24, 2022
A fan account, Shailene Woodley Updates, retweeted a submit saying it was “sexism” to “drag” Woodley due to the Packers’ playoff loss, however the account additionally stated: “Shailene sweetie now's the time to announce you dumped him months in the past.”
Shailene sweetie now's the time to announce you dumped him months in the past
— Shailene Woodley Updates (@PlanetShailene) January 23, 2022
The couple’s relationship has turn out to be the topic of rumors and hypothesis over the previous few months, provided that they stopped being seen in public final spring and stopped sharing any information about one another in interviews or on social media by the beginning of the NFL season. Rodgers made no point out of even having a fiancée in his prolonged, “unfiltered” interview with ESPN final week, though he stated he preferred “maintaining a separation of personal life and (skilled) life.”
However he wasn’t so personal when he was quoted in early September, saying that it could “be an excellent factor” for him and Woodley to spend time time aside, whereas he targeted on the season and he or she targeted on TV and movie initiatives.
Woodley additionally by no means positioned herself because the form of girlfriend who would recurrently be seen within the luxurious field, cheering her man on. When she talked about their engagement throughout a February 2021 interview on “The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon,” she revealed that she had by no means watched a soccer sport earlier than relationship Rodgers. Woodley additionally stated she nonetheless not seen Rodgers play in particular person.
📸 | Shailene Woodley carrying her engagement ring throughout an interview with Jimmy Fallon, the place she additionally confirmed her engagement to Aaron Rodgers. pic.twitter.com/KQtthcPtXa
— Shailene Woodley Updates (@PlanetShailene) February 23, 2021
“Once we met, additionally, like I knew he was a soccer man, however I didn’t know like what sort of a soccer man he was,” she stated. “As a result of I don’t know him as a soccer man. I do know him as just like the nerd who desires to host ‘Jeopardy!’ You realize, that’s the dude I do know.”
In early December, Folks quoted a supply near Woodley who insisted that she and Rodgers are “nonetheless collectively” however had been making the connection work “on their phrases.” Which means, for instance, that she wasn’t going to want him a contented birthday publicly when he turned 38, the supply stated.
“They've a distinct, non-traditional relationship,” the supply stated. “It’s not odd they don’t submit about one another on their birthdays in that sense, and are very personal about issues.”
Nevertheless, Woodley wasn’t very personal when she boasted about Rodgers’ bodily attributes on social media in early November, after he examined optimistic for COVID-19 and delivered the primary of his anti-vaccination statements on the “The Pat McAfee” present.
Woodley took to social media to slam a Day by day Mail report that misidentified Rodgers in photographs. The Day by day Mail falsely reported that Rodgers broke his 10-day quarantine after testing optimistic for COVID. It additionally revealed a photograph of a bearded man in a masks, which Woodley denied was Rodgers, writing, “Actually, y’all have to calm the (expletive) down.”
Woodley continued her expletive-laced grievance towards the “expletive” media by saying, “I do know Aaron’s physique very properly.” She joked that Rodgers has “greater toes than the person within the photograph,” possible referring to a different, extra intimate a part of his anatomy. She additionally stated, “It’s no secret that he has hairiest palms on the (expletive) planet.”
Woodley confronted fierce criticism for her submit, which publicly shamed the person within the Day by day Mail photographs. Her feedback additionally appeared to ignore many individuals’s public well being considerations about Rodgers’ anti-vaccination feedback or how he misled reporters about his vaccination standing and subsequently confirmed disregard for different individuals’s security.
Woodley moreover got here throughout as oblivious to the way in which that her fame within the movie and TV trade was being affected by her affiliation together with her anti-vaccine fiancé. Folks on social media questioned whether or not she had influenced his desirous about well being points, or whether or not she was adhering to any vaccine protocols on the units of initiatives she was engaged on.
Woodley and Rodgers’ good good friend, Miles Teller, additionally had been on the heart of a fierce Hollywood debate concerning the monetary and public well being prices of performers who resist getting vaccinated. In keeping with a Day by day Mail report, Teller brought about complications on the set of his new TV collection by refusing to be vaccinated. Two weeks after Rodgers’ controversy erupted, Teller lastly issued an announcement on the problem, saying he had been vaccinated “for some time.”
Teller and his spouse, mannequin Keleigh Sperry, had been Woodley and Rodgers’ well-known touring companions final spring. The foursome appeared to get pleasure from a detailed bond, as Sperry shared a number of pictures of the 2 couples having fun with lavish, fun-filled journeys to the Kentucky Derby in April and to Maui in Might. Rodgers and Teller’s controversies solid these holidays in a brand new mild, simply as Rodgers and Woodley’s relationship is more likely to face new scrutiny within the coming weeks.