Shailene Woodley confirms engagement to NFL star Aaron Rodgers
Shailene Woodley has discovered the proper catch.
The “Big Little Lies” actress, 29, confirmed she’s engaged to Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers throughout an look on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” Monday.
“Yes, we are engaged,” Woodley confirmed after Jimmy Fallon requested if congratulations have been so as. “But for us, it’s not new news, you know? So it’s kind of funny. Everybody right now is freaking out over it and we’re like, ‘Yeah, we’ve been engaged for a while.'”
Woodley referred to as her fiance a “wonderful” and “incredible human being,” though she mentioned the NFL star is not the kind of man she ever noticed herself marrying.
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“I never thought I’d be engaged with somebody who threw balls for a living,” she mentioned. “Like, I never thought as a little girl, I was like, ‘Yeah, when I grow up, I’m gonna marry someone who throws balls! Yeah!’ But he’s really just so good at it.”
That’s an understatement. Rodgers was named the NFL’s most valuable player in 2020 after throwing 48 landing passes for the No. 1 seed within the NFC. During his acceptance speech, Rodgers gave a particular nod to his fiancee, with out figuring out her.
“It’s an honor to win this award for the third time,” Rodgers said on Feb. 6. “2020 was positively a loopy 12 months, full of a lot of change, progress, some wonderful, memorable moments, 180 straight days of getting my nostril hairs scraped, enjoying for little or no followers or no followers the whole season, I acquired engaged, and I performed a number of the finest soccer of my profession.”
Despite all of her fiancee’s success on the field, Woodley revealed she’s never been to a football game in person and only started watching games on TV after meeting Rodgers.
“We met throughout this whacky, whacky time and all of the stadiums have been closed that he was enjoying in, so I’ve but to go to a soccer recreation,” she said. “I did not actually develop up with sports activities, particularly American sports activities. It was by no means actually on my radar. When we met, additionally, I knew he was a soccer man, however I did not know like what sort of a soccer man he was. And I’m nonetheless always studying.”
She continued: “I do not know him as a soccer man. I do know him as, like, the nerd who needs to host ‘Jeopardy!’ That’s the dude I do know.”
Rodgers will be calling the shots on “Jeopardy!” and begin his 10-show stint as guest host on April 5 following Alex Trebek’s November loss of life at 80 of pancreatic most cancers.
The Super Bowl-winning quarterback competed on “Celebrity Jeopardy!” in 2015.
Contributing: Zach Kruse
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