Tom Brady has revealed that his pet canine Junie is a clone of his late pet Lua, who died in 2023.

Lua was a pitbull combine adopted by Brady and his then-wife, Gisele Bundchen, throughout their marriage between 2009 and 2022.

After an extended life with the household, and even showing alongside Brady in a 2014 Ugg Australia advert, the pup sadly died in 2023.

Nonetheless, Brady has now revealed that his nearly two-year-old canine Junie is definitely a clone of his late pet. The previous NFL participant revealed that biotech firm Colossal Biosciences, through which he’s an investor, helped him bringLua again as a clone.

‘I like my animals. They imply the world to me and my household,’ the previous NFL star stated in an announcement obtained by Folks.

‘A number of years in the past, I labored with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning know-how by way of a easy blood draw of our household’s aged canine earlier than she handed.’

He stated the corporate ‘gave my household a second likelihood with a clone of our beloved canine.’

He additionally added he’s ‘excited how Colossal and Viagen’s tech collectively may help each households dropping their beloved pets whereas serving to to avoid wasting endangered species.’

As of November 4, Viagen has been bought by Colossal Biosciences. Viagen was identified for cloning celeb pets, whereas Colossal has been making headlines for anti-extinction efforts, akin to bringing again Dire Wolves and the Dodo.

In a press launch to Folks, the biotech firm stated they’ve ‘unique licensing and entry to the breakthrough applied sciences’ that had been developed by the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh.

The establishment is extensively identified for the breakthrough cloning of Dolly the Sheep within the late Nineties.

Celebrities with cloned canines

Viagen has cloned the pets of a number of the wealthy and well-known.

Barbra Streisand’s canine Samantha, who died in 2017, has been cloned twice.

The singer defined that cells had been taken from the mouth and abdomen of her Coton de Tulear, Samantha, to present life to the clones Miss Scarlett and Miss Violet.

‘I’ve two scrumptious infants,’ she instructed Lorraine showbiz reporter Ross King. ‘However the soul can’t be cloned,’ she added. ‘They’re so lovely however they’re completely completely different.

‘Certainly one of them may be very candy and sort of shy, extra like Sammie, but in addition feisty. The opposite one is sort of a monkey, she jumps up on couches, and down and below tables. I believe she has a bit monkey gene in her.

‘However they’re very completely different and so they’re each so lovely. I all the time see Sammie trying of their eyes. So she stays near me.’

Paris Hilton’s canine Diamond Child was additionally cloned when the pet went lacking in 2022.

Throughout a season 2 episode of Paris in Love, which aired in November 2023, she revealed she had cloned her beloved canine Diamond Child.

She then revealed the cloned puppies, aptly named Diamond and Child, to the world on the present.

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