Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen Are Engaged ... For Realsies This Time!

Tom Brady and Gisele Bundchen reportedly were engaged a few weeks back, according to TMZ. But if you thought People, who clearly controls the entire world, was going to let anyone else scoop them on this mega-uber-awezome news, you were wrong.

Celebrity Sports Couples

NFL star Tom Brady and supermodel Gisele Bundchen
Relationship Status: Dating since late 2006 and reportedly engaged

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Relationship Status: Married

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Relationship Status: Engaged during a vacation over the holidays

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Singer Carrie Underwood and NHL player Mike Fisher
Relationship Status: Reportedly dating.

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Ex-Formula One champion Fernando Alonso and singer Raquel Del Rosario
Relationship Status: Reportedly have been married since 2006

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Reality TV star Khloe Kardashian and NBA player Rashad McCants
Relationship Status: Reportedly dating

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NHRA star Ashley Force and her husband Daniel Hood
Relationship Status: Married on Dec. 13, 2008

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NASCAR star Carl Edwards and Dr. Kate Downey
Relationship Status: Recently engaged

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Recording artist Trina and NBA player Kenyon Martin
Relationship Status: Currently dating

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Sacramento Kings guard Shelden Williams and L.A. Sparks forward Candace Parker
Relationship Status: They eloped in Lake Tahoe in November, and Parker is expecting her first child this spring

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And now it appears as if Brady didn't propose until last Friday, when he offered up a ring that's probably worth more than my ~~mom's basement~~ house.

The New England Patriots quarterback, 31, proposed with a diamond solitaire to the Brazilian supermodel, 28, on Friday.

"He asked and she accepted," a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. Family and friends were informed over the weekend. An official announcement, as well as preliminary wedding details, are being planned by Bündchen and her closest friends this week.

I suppose that People probably has the timeline correct; after all, there never was any confirmation of the original report, and it was later denied by several Boston newspapers. On the other hand, People could have simply pressured the couple into waiting a few weeks so they could pull trigger on the scoop. It's really impossible to tell. And it really doesn't matter.

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)

1-12-2009 @ 8:30PM

Sports Fan said...

Good news for somebody!

1-13-2009 @ 2:45AM

parkershortill said...

After much deliberation, Brady finally puts the franchise tag on on Bundchen, before he gets traded for a healthier self-absorbed mega-star...yawn

1-13-2009 @ 7:55AM

jill said...

Wasn't he engaged to the other chick before she had his baby? & this one he is engaged to now, used to be Leo DiCaprio's "one & only"?

1-13-2009 @ 7:19AM

marshall said...

Great Happeness to the couple..I wish you the best of luck in your boths future..
Support our U.S. Troops !!

1-13-2009 @ 6:05PM

Lori said...

I only hope he treats her as well as he did his child's mother!

1-13-2009 @ 8:50AM

leah said...

Hope he treats her better than he did his child's mother, and maybe she will actually put on some clothes ! She looks really slutty, and he looks really stupid. Made for each other !

1-13-2009 @ 9:17AM

JIM said...

There goes a good football career. But on the bright side all of us know what his wife's boobs look like :-)

1-13-2009 @ 9:20AM

Brenda said...

Hey idiots, lay off Tom Brady & Gisele.You are just jelious. They are aloud to live their own lives. Brady is the best. I didn't here you say anything when Eli Manning got married, of course he's not important like Tom. Your the best Tom. Good luck for you & Gisele.

1-13-2009 @ 10:49AM

Jane said...

Wow--did you actually learn to spell anywhere during your years of schooling?

1-13-2009 @ 11:36AM

jane said...

brenda learn to spell please, it is very annoying to try to figure out what you are trying to say, I feel like a school teacher correcting homework

1-13-2009 @ 1:43PM

NOTAGENIUS said...

Branda Calling others idiots,now that is funny!

1-13-2009 @ 9:22AM

nick said...

Bradey going to marry this one? He will be so tired from laying this one he won't be able to throw those deep passes, better keep a guard on this gal.

1-13-2009 @ 9:30AM

suebee said...

Is this really news? WHO CARES??

1-13-2009 @ 9:51AM

joe nameth said...

who really gives a sh#t anyway?? the story starved morons of the press!!! get a life, this is a sports site, not a whos been sleeping with whom site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1-13-2009 @ 10:54AM

Dee said...

ELI MANNING did not get a girl pregnant and leave her for a super model...DUUUHH!

1-13-2009 @ 1:12PM

Joe said...

Eli manning couldn't get laid in a whore house

1-13-2009 @ 12:45PM

Bette said...

It takes two people to have sex. I think that his child's mother had sex along with Tom. So, don't you think that means that she is also to blame? Do you seriously think that he is the only athelete to have sex with someone that he was not married too? At least he didn't try to kill her because she got pregnant as one athlete did. He also does not ignore his child as a lot of other athletes do.