When USWNT star Trinity Rodman and tennis player Ben Shelton made their relationship public this week, they became the latest in a long line of high-profile sporting/celebrity couples.
The pair’s ‘Instagram official’ moment — or their ‘hard launch’ to use language that only people of a certain generation will recognise or abide — involved Shelton, the world No 14, posting a picture of them smooching in a lift. Textbook.
But what can the pair, both 22, expect now they have entered into a relationship that will spawn thousands of gossip-based internet stories and millions of comments on social media about their very public dalliance?
It’s a well-trodden path. The most famous
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