by: Daniel Hager 4 hours ago DanielHagerOn3
Seven-time Super Bowl Champion Tom Brady revealed this week that his dog, Junie, is a clone of his late dog Lua. Lua was a pit bull mix.
Thanks to the help of Colossal Biosciences , a biotech company in which Brady is actually an investor in, Lua was cloned using blood collected just before she passed away in Dec. 2023.
“I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family,” Brady said via People Magazine. “A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family’s elderly dog before she passed.”
Celebrities have cloned pets in the past, most notably Grammy Award winner Barbara Streisand and actress Paris Hilton . The NFL legend can now be added to that list as he and his family begin their journey with Junie.
Since retiring after 2022 season, Brady has spent the past two years in the NFL on FOX broadcast booth alongside Kevin Burkhardt . Along with his duties as the lead color commentator for FOX, Brady became a partial owner of the Las Vegas Raiders.