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Hello, sports fans! Also hello to the people who co-habit with sports fans, who have been forced to watch a Jets game and are trying to remember which of Aaron Rodgers’s exes also dated Leonardo DiCaprio. I’ve got you. The 40-year-old quarterback has quite the dating history, including a race-car driver, a Gossip Girl actress, and Olivia Munn.
Jessica Szohr
Remember Vanessa from Gossip Girl? This is her! She and Rodgers dated briefly in 2011 and got back together in 2014. Upon their reunion, a source told Us Weekly the couple had originally split owing to her busy schedule. “They broke up because her schedule was crazy for a while and they just couldn’t stay together in that situation, but now they have been spending their free time together and things feel good. They fell right back into it,” the source said.
The pair eventually split again, but it seems there’s no bad blood. Szohr was seen attending Rodgers’s birthday dinner back in 2017. You think a lifelong Green Bay Packers fan was just going to stop being close to Aaron Rodgers? C’mon!
Olivia Munn
Rodgers and Munn started dating in 2014, and the couple was reportedly engaged before their split in 2017. Rodgers met the actress when they presented the Academy of Country Music Award for Song of the Year together. A few months later, they were spotted smooching behind the scenes at The Newsroom. (Remember The Newsroom? Munn played a brilliant but also hot economist named Sloan Sabbith … moving on!)
That November, things had gotten serious, and Munn told E! News that she and Rodgers made their relationship work by making the tough choices. “There’s a lot of traveling, a lot of driving, and then you’re just really happy with the decisions that you make. And for me, it comes at a time in my life when I end up having to say ‘no’ to some work because I gotta be somewhere else,” she explained. “It doesn’t make me sad or anything because I want my life to be full and have all those experiences, so you kind of figure it out as you go.”
Rodgers has long had a difficult relationship with his family, and according to one source, things became more strained when he began dating Munn.
“Aaron is the one that has pulled away from the family, not the reverse,” a source told Us Weekly in January 2017. “When he got together with Olivia Munn, his family told him they didn’t trust her and thought she wasn’t with him for the right reasons. That made him furious, and he ended up choosing Olivia over his family.”
That same month, Munn was spotted with a rock on her left ring finger, leading people to believe the couple had gotten engaged. If they were betrothed, it didn’t last long. The pair split in April 2017. In classic celeb fashion, they were still “close friends and wish nothing but the best for each other moving forward,” according to a source in People.
Danica Patrick
What can I say? Rodgers loves a serious relationship with a striking brunette. He started dating Patrick, a record-breaking race-car driver, in late 2017. The two had known each other for years, meeting at the ESPYs in 2012 and exchanging a few emails in the years leading up to their relationship.
“We kept in touch a little bit, and there were some years we didn’t talk to each other, and then some every now and again. But it wasn’t until obviously recently that we actually had phone numbers,” Patrick recalled on Jenny McCarthy’s SiriusXM show in 2018. “We referred to each other as Chicago and Green Bay — it was very cute.”
In December 2019, the couple splashed out on a $28 million Malibu beach house. Perhaps quarantining together didn’t go super-well; in July 2020, they called it quits.
Shailene Woodley
This relationship … put it in the Louvre. This was one of the all-time great celebrity couples. Two weirdos matching each other’s energy perfectly. On February 2, 2021, E! News confirmed the quarterback was dating the Big Little Lies star.
“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,” a source told the outlet. That makes it seem like they were in the chill early days of their relationship, no? Wrong! Four days later, Rodgers thanked his “fiancée” (and Jodie Foster) while accepting his NFL MVP trophy. Later that month, Woodley confirmed their engagement on The Tonight Show.
What came next was a little more than a year of kooky perfection. They went on a group vacation with Miles Teller and his wife, Keleigh. Woodley made everyone think she was pregnant when she posted some baby feet on Instagram. They watched his brief stint as Jeopardy host together. She stood by him (and told us about his big dick) when he got COVID and also revealed that he was unvaccinated.
In February 2022, the couple reportedly called off their engagement. The split was “amicable,” and there was “no bad blood.” In fact, there was so little bad blood they briefly got back together in March before ending things for good in April 2022. Since then, Rodgers has not been linked to anyone.
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