Jodie Foster breaks her silence over whether she set up her “The Mauritanian” co-star, Shailene Woodley, with NFL star Aaron Rodgers.
The Green Bay Packers full-back revealed that he was engaged while giving his NFL MF Award speech on Feb. 6.
“2020 was definitely a crazy year filled with a lot of change, growth, amazing, memorable moments,” the 37-year-old said. ‘One hundred and eighty days in a row after scraping my nose hair, a plan for very few fans or no pitches all season, I got engaged and I played some of the best football of my career.
Although Rodgers did not name Woodley, he and the actress “Big Little Lies” (29) were previously linked.
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Meanwhile, in his speech, Rodgers also thanked Foster for making fans think she should be the general link, but Foster claims that she does not know Rodgers, but only a big Packers fan.
“You had no idea he would say that?” Ask Jimmy Kimmel while the actress director appears on ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’ on Thursday night.
Foster replies, “He just knows I’m his biggest fan.” The 58-year-old surrounded the engagement question.
Kimmel asked, “He mentions his fiancée, who’s Shailene Woodley, who’s your co-star in this particular movie. And that’s just a total coincidence?”
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The Oscar winner replies, ‘I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but yes, she is, and she’s fantastic. So we spent a lot of time with ‘The Mauritanian’ in a tent with a little air conditioning. spitting on us, talking about our lives and recipes and people we hate and things like that. ‘
Shailene Woodley and Aaron Rodgers got engaged sometime in 2020.
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A source told E! News that Rodgers and Woodley (29) have been a ‘low key’ couple for a while.
Rodgers had previously dated Danica Patrick for two years, but they broke up in July. Before that, he was romantically linked to actress Olivia Munn from 2014 to 2017.
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Woodley dated rugby player Ben Volavola from 2018 to 2020.