Aaron Rodgers and his team, the Green Bay Packers, didn’t get a chance to go to the Super Bowl this year, but it seems the football player still has plenty of reason to celebrate.
The quarterback announced while accepting this year’s Most Valuable Player award that he’s engaged just days after rumors started circulating that he and Shailene Woodley had started dating. “It’s an honor to win this award for the third time,” Rodgers said at the press conference. “2020 was definitely a crazy year, filled with lots of change, growth, some amazing memorable moments. 180 straight days of having my nose hairs scraped. Playing for very little fans or no stands the entire season, I got engaged, and I played some of the best football of my career.”
During the acceptance speech, he also went on to thank “my fiancée,” as well as Jodie Foster—a Packers fan who also happens to be Woodley’s costar in the upcoming film The Mauritanian—before urging “people to read books, to meditate, speak things to life, manifest the desires of your heart, question everything and spread love and positivity.” Rodgers broke up with his girlfriend of two years, NASCAR star Danica Patrick, in July, and prior to that dated actress Olivia Munn from 2014 to 2017.
Last week, E! News first confirmed that the actress and Rodgers had started a long-distance relationship with a source announcing, “They have kept things private and low key.” The Green Bay Packers player has been “very focused on his season,” while Woodley has been working on the set of her new film Misanthrope in Montreal. But even so, the source says, “They have seen each other and been in touch. They continue to talk and see each other when they can. They are both focused on their careers but they also make time for each other.” Although, it now seems the relationship isn’t quite as “casual” as this source initially suggested.
In September, Rodgers also gushed about his “new and increased love of life” on the Pat McAfee Show, saying, “I’ve made decisions and changes and habits that put me in a lot better headspace and there’s just a lot of things that have come together in my life over the last few months that have really been enjoyable. That’s why I’m having so much fun and it starts with love. And then surrounding yourself with people that you really enjoy.”
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