Jake Paul goes public with new girlfriend after splitting from Julia Rose
Jake Paul has gone Insta-public with his new girlfriend after splitting from Julia Rose, with the new couple posting photos on their respective feeds.
Social media star-turned-professional boxer Paul, 26, previously had a highly publicised on-and-off relationship with Instagram model Rose, but they are thought to have broken up late last year.
At the time, Paul wrote not-so-cryptically on Instagram: “Picked the wrong rose.”
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The pair also unfollowed one another on the site, while Rose added in a since-deleted tweet: “I tried.”
But it looks like Paul’s moved on nicely after he was linked to Dutch speed skater Jutta Leerdam, 24 – a pairing that they both seem to have since confirmed with loved-up snaps.
"I’m Dutch now," Paul wrote in the caption for his post, which featured an image of them walking along together, and another of them jogging side-by-side.
"That's it," Leerdam said in hers.
Leerdam’s post was accompanied by a pic of her staring into Paul’s eyes – a comment underneath from her beau referring to her as an ‘ice queen’ - one of them holding hands on a boat and a third of the duo hugging underneath Paul’s top. As you do.
According to Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf, Paul and Leerdam were first spotted together at a Hugo Boss fashion show in Miami.
Leerdam had previously been in a relationship with fellow speed skater Koe Verweij, but the two broke up last summer.
In the months since, she's been keeping herself busy - becoming a world champion in December when she won gold at the 1000m event at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Calgary, Canada, completing the track in under one minute 13 seconds to land her fourth consecutive first-place finish in the race.
After the victory, she shared some of the secrets of her success, telling NPO Radio 1: “I have become stronger and heavier. I now use that extra fat as strength."
She continued: "The race wasn't perfect.
"Especially my opener, as I had a miss-stroke at the start but eventually I skated a 26.2 lap. When I saw that, I thought wow, and the speed came really easy. I learn every race. It doesn't need to be perfect, especially not if you win by a 0.7s margin.
"But I want to get the best out of it every time of course."
Jess Hardiman