When Tom Brady returned to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ training camp two weekends ago, he looked gaunt and exhausted. He missed eleven days of training camp for “personal reasons,” and there were quickly rumors that Tom’s marriage to Gisele Bundchen was on the rocks. Those rumors have been confirmed (sort of) by Page Six. Page Six has done a series of exclusives about how Gisele left the family’s Florida compound at the same time Tom returned to football. Gisele spent more than a week in Costa Rica by herself, having left the kids with Tom in Florida. Tom had to do the first-day-of-school stuff by himself and he had to be the one coordinating the school drop-offs and pick-ups and the kids’ extracurriculars. Now Page Six says that Gisele returned to Florida… but that she isn’t back with Tom. She’s taking a very hard line on this and I admire her for it. Team Gisele.
Gisele Bündchen still hasn’t patched things up with Tom Brady, despite her return to Florida from Costa Rica. A source told us, “Gisele isn’t back with Tom. She flew back to Florida to be with her kids but hasn’t been to their home in Tampa. Tom is still hoping they can reconcile. Gisele has told him she’s leaving him before, and they always made up when she cooled down.”
Bündchen is believed to be staying in Miami. The source added that reports they are currently divorcing are “not true,” although other insiders say the couple could be headed in that direction.
Page Six exclusively revealed last week that the 42-year-old supermodel had jetted to their home in the Central American country after an “epic fight” with the pro football player. Sources told us the fight was over the Buccaneers quarterback’s shocking decision to un-retire from the NFL.
“They had agreed he would retire to focus on the family, then he changed his mind,” an insider told us.
“There’s been trouble in the marriage over his decision to un-retire. Gisele has always been the one with the kids,” a separate insider added.
The Brazilian model returned to Florida a few days later and was spotted with their kids at a Miami water park.
I love that she took the kids to a water park. Yes, Gisele gets to be the “good cop,” the fun parent for a change. Tom will be the one telling them to brush their teeth and eat their veggies and do their homework. Now, is Tom actually doing that? Or is he delegating all of that to various child minders and housekeepers and extended family? I don’t know. But I respect the hell out of Gisele for really doing this and giving Tom a real taste of what he’s about to lose.
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- BEVERLY HILLS, LOS ANGELES, CA, USA – FEBRUARY 21: Football quarterback Tom Brady and wife/model Gisele Bundchen arrive at the 2019 Hollywood For Science Gala held at a Private Estate on February 21, 2019 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, United States. (Photo by Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency),Image: 535404319, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: WORLD RIGHTS – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289 – Fee Payable Upon Reproduction – For queries contact Avalon.red – sales@avalon.red London: +44 (0) 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles: +1 (310) 822 0419 Berlin: +49 (0) 30 76 212 251 Madrid: +34 91 533 4289, Model Release: no, Credit line: Xavier Collin/Image Press Agency / Xavier Collin / Avalon
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- Tom Brady, Gisele Bundchen at arrivals for Camp: Notes on Fashion Met Gala Costume Institute Annual Benefit – Part 3, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY May 6, 2019. Photo By: Kristin Callahan/
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- Monaco, MONACO – **FILE PHOTOS** Like many public spaces across the country, parks in Tampa, Florida, are closed to visitors because of restrictions aimed at stopping the spread of coronavirus. That didn’t prevent one man from trying to get an outdoor workout recently. The scofflaw was none other than new Tampa resident Tom Brady, according to Mayor Jane Castor. And, yes, the superstar quarterback was sighted (not cited), she said. Park staff came across Brady while patrolling a downtown park, Castor said Monday during a joint news briefing with St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman. “I got to tell you this story, too. Now, I always tell people, I’m not one to gossip so you didn’t hear this from me,” Castor said. “Our parks are closed down; and so a lot of our parks staff they patrol around just to make sure that people aren’t doing contact sports and things like that, and saw an individual working out in one of our downtown parks,” Castor said. “And she went over to tell him that it was closed and it was Tom Brady.” Pictured here during a Tag Heuer event during the 76th Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix **SHOT ON 05/26/2018** Pictured: Tom Brady BACKGRID USA 21 APRIL 2020 BYLINE MUST READ: Best Image / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
I love that she waited until it would be noticeable. He unretired months ago but she waited until August to lay on the full pressure to show him how absent he is during football season. Glad she is holding his feet to the fire.
Yes. I cannot with her but I have her back on this all the way. You chose to have a wife and have children with your wife/partner. You cannot keep abandoning them when you want to do what you want to do. I really don’t think he considers her dreams. We shall see how this unfolds.
Was anyone surprised? I think she’s made it very clear over the past years that she’s the default parent. I would even go so far as to say it seemed like he wasn’t really involved in the parenting at all. She’s had enough.
Personally, I’d be so mad at him. Tom has has had a great career, a bonus Super Bowl in Tampa, and is now risking his future health for no good reason. He needs to move on and be grateful that he still has his mental capacity after ~20 yrs in the NFL.
Good for her, I think how Tom responds to this will determine if she files for divorce.
I mean she’s right, he should retire and I respect her for asserting her opinion which I think is more based on concerns for him (his legacy, his physical health) than wanting him to be more “there for the family.” However, at the end of the day, it is his decision and I don’t see it as right either for her to control through threatening to leave (if that’s what she is doing). Sometimes people have to make their own mistakes, but it is their marriage so they’ll figure it out.
Ultimately we don’t know how it is exactly going down and can only guess and gossip. There is a difference between controlling via threats and someone holding their boundary as to how they will be treated and prioritized. We can’t make our partners choose us but we can decide when we’ve had enough of coming in last and choose to step away from the relationship. Who knows how it’s actually going down but I guess I’m rooting for him to wake up for the sake of their kids.
I’m not a fan of either of them, but I’m also with her on this. Various stories and interviews with him over the years have convinced me that he’s arrogant and generally not a very good person. I’ve also gotten the impression from stories about them that she wears the pants in the marriage, and if that’s the case then she may see his “unretiring” as an act of defiance on his part. I’m sorry that their high profiles mean that they (and the children) don’t have the luxury of privacy to work things through.
I think the Giselle ‘wearing the pants in the family’ stories are just more of what we see in this article, misogynistic BS layered with the tired ‘fiery latin’ trope. Why should it be up to Giselle to make up to Tom? It seems he’s the one who went back on his word. And ‘she always goes back after she cools down’? I’ve never gotten the impression she’s a fly-off-the-handle kind of person. She has a right to be angry right now.
Tom reneged on his commitment to leave the football field. He could be a sports commentator & have a broadcasting career or maybe coach. He likes throwing the ball to get adulation but the cost to his health is a huge risk.
Giselle has spoken of his concussions. At 42 with kids, she doesn’t want to also become the caretaker for a CTE victim / patient. Some of those victims go seriously nuts & harm themselves and others.
Tom may need to decide what is more important his wife & children or Football? This is definitely going to be a distraction for him this season if this is true
I don’t think she would divorce him…I think she truly loves him, but is calling his bluff..but who knows? And he may just call hers as well!!!
I’m not surprised that any of this is happening. I knew when I read the NY Times Magazine profile about Tom Brady some years ago that his whole existence is football. There is nothing else in that man’s head. He loves his children, sure, but football has always been number one. I knew his retirement would be ugly, dragged out, and long winded and that he would exit the Patriots on not great terms with Bill Bellichick. That he would retire and then unretire a la Brett Favre and when he did, he would piss off Giselle. I get the transition to a more civilian life is brutal for professional athletes and nothing can quite prepare them for it. But it’s painful to see them limping along and I get such second hand embarrassment from watching them trying to push themselves past their human limits at such an advanced age. Brady is in such denial and I think Giselle’s anger is a huge wake up call for him. Also the NYT Mag profile from 2015 (here: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/01/magazine/tom-brady-cannot-stop.html) tellingly does not mention Giselle or his kids once which I thought was so weird. Now I have a better understanding of why.