Tom Brady reveals dog Junie was cloned from beloved late pet Lua

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.

Brady dealt with concerns regarding a conflict of interest between his roles

Earlier this season, concerns were raised about a possible conflict of interest between his roles. Brady however pushed back on those concerns. The future Hall of Famer defended himself in his weekly newsletter in an entry titled “Do Your Job,” writing that “paranoid and distrustful” people are the ones who are shouting about there being a conflict of interest in his roles.

“I love football,” Brady wrote. “At its core it is a game of principles. And with all the success it has given me, I feel I have a moral and ethical duty to the sport; which is why the point where my roles in it intersect is not actually a point of conflict, despite what the paranoid and distrustful might believe. Rather, it’s the place from which my ethical duty emerges: to grow, evolve, and improve the game that has given me everything.”

These concerns existed last year, Brady’s first season as a broadcaster. They reached a new high during the Week 2 Monday Night Football game between the Raiders and Los Angeles Chargers. Brady was seen sitting in the coaches’ box with a headset on.

ESPN sideline reporter Peter Schrager revealed that Brady regularly talks with offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and the two “go through the game plan” together. Both Kelly and head coach Pete Carroll said that report was not accurate.

On3’s Nick Geddes contributed to this article.