Tom Brady says his dog is a clone.
The six-time Super Bowl winner and current Fox Sports broadcaster said Tuesday in a statement from the company in which he is an investor that his dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua.
Brady made the announcement on the same day that venture capital-backed biotech startup Colossal Biosciences acquired another animal cloning firm, Viagen Pets and Equine.
Colossal, which aims to, among other things, “fix” extinction, is said to be valued at $10 billion – its first major acquisition.
“I love my animals,” Brady said in a statement released by the company. “They mean the world to me and my family. A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and used their non-invasive cloning technology by simply taking blood from our family’s elderly dog before he passed away.”
The dog is a pit bull mix. Lua was adopted by Brady and his ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. The couple divorced in 2022. Lua died in December 2023.
Colossal uses genetic engineering and cloning to revive extinct species.
In late 2024, Colossal said it had given birth to three wolf cubs using cloning and gene editing. The dire wolf was previously extinct. Several groups, including the International Union for Conservation of Nature, have disputed this claim.
