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Safe to say Sophie Cunningham does not agree with Tom Brady. No, it is not about football or basketball, but it is about pets. The retired quarterback has revealed that his dog Junie is actually a clone of another dog. He and his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen, owned a dog named Lua who died in late 2023. “I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family,” Brady said. “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.” While that is a display of impressive scientific achievement, which actually dates back to 1996, its real-life use has Sophie Cunningham judging the greatest quarterback of all time. “Dude, that’s f*** weird. That’s really weird,” She said on her podcast ‘Show Me Something’, “I still like him. Just a weird guy. Weird guy.” So, it was not a knock on Brady as a person. Her podcast partner, Caleb Wilson, later revealed that Brady was extremely chill and great to work with. Cunningham quipped that Brady and the rich people like him can splurge like this because he’s run out of real things to spend on ADVERTISEMENT “This is why rich people do weird s*** cuz they have f*** you money and they just find ways to do weird s***,” She said. Brady’s current net worth is estimated to be around $300 million as of April 2025. Brady spent $50,000 on this procedure that required a “simple blood draw” from the family’s aging pit bull mix, Lua, before she died. However, there is a catch. Brady is an investor in Colossal Biosciences, which acquired Viagen, a biotechnology company. Along with the business side, cloning yields a genetic twin, not the same dog in memory or temperament. Even if its scientific method is proven over the years, this decision from Brady has brought some moral judgment from other dog lovers and activists. “Setting aside Brady’s business connection to the cloning company, one that makes the new pup seem a bit like a four-legged branding opportunity, there are far better ways to get a different dog, ways that don’t involve dropping $50,000, an extravagant sum that few dog lovers could ever afford,” wrote Rex Huppke on USA Today. What Huppke is referring to is adopting a dog instead. He also provided data that “in all of 2024, 2.9 million dogs entered shelters or rescues, and 334,000 dogs were euthanized.” ADVERTISEMENT So, for Sophie Cunningham, who grew up in Missouri, spending much of her childhood on her grandparents’ 2,500‑acre Primus family farm east of town with horses, it seems out of the norm. Cloning a dog, which is not even the exact same one, while millions are euthanized every year, is not a fact everyone accepts. Cunningham has already professed her love for animals. “I am a dog lover, animal lover through and through, like love animals more than I love people,” Cunningham said. Her blunt vibe carries straight into the next act—trading hot takes for a caddie bib with Caitlin Clark at The Annika, punctuated by her playful ‘fore’ mix‑up. ADVERTISEMENT Read Top Stories First From EssentiallySports Click here and check box next to EssentiallySports Sophie Cunningham Reveals Confusion In Helping Caitlin Clark Sophie Cunningham is the odd one out among the tres leches. Caitlin Clark and Lexie Hull are avid golfers. Clark is even participating in the Annika Pro Am for a second consecutive year. It is an LPGA tournament hosted by Hall of Famer Annika Sörenstam. Pros are paired with invited amateurs and notable guests. The tournament starts in three days on November 12. Accompanying her will be Cunningham and Hull as celebrity caddies. However, Sophie Cunningham admitted that she has zero idea about Golf. “I don’t know s*** about golf. I’m really good at drinking and driving the golf cart. Actually, not bad. I have a pretty good short game, too. Yeah, I would kill people at mini golf. But yeah, I have no idea what I’m going to be doing,” She said. ADVERTISEMENT That was already evident in the grand mix-up on her social media. When Cunningham was announced as a caddie for Clark, Cunningham wrote “FOUR!!!!!!” as a caption for her repost. But most people who have at least some knowledge of golf, including Clark, know that the correct term is “Fore,” which golfers shout to warn people of an incoming ball.
