As a musical icon, Madonna has lengthy made her private life a element of her artwork, however she has been fairly quiet about her relationship with Joshua Popper. The brand new couple appears to have been relationship all through 2023, however they haven’t spoken publicly about their connection regardless of numerous curiosity.
For followers of Madonna and of boxing coaches, right here’s the whole lot to find out about their nascent relationship.
Who’s Josh Popper?
Popper has popped up far and wide, although he’s primarily an athlete. He was born in 1993 in New Jersey and graduated from Holy Spirit Excessive Faculty in Absecon in 2011. He went on to be a profitable faculty athlete at Rowan College, the place he performed defensive lineman and ultimately helped win the workforce a New Jersey Athletic Convention (NJAC) Championship in 2013. In 2016, he attended the Arizona Cardinals rookie minicamp as a possible candidate for the NFL however received reduce earlier than the season started. In 2017, he briefly joined the Indianapolis Colts however received let go there as nicely.
He moved to NYC in 2019 and has labored as a boxing coach, ultimately proudly owning his personal health club. On the Bredwinners web site, Popper says he’s a “lifelong athlete and a full-time coach.”
He incessantly competes and in 2023, he was named the NYC Ring Masters Heavyweight Champion at Madison Sq. Backyard. Popper additionally has one thing of an leisure profession, and is repped by modeling company Soul Artist MGMT. He even appeared in season seven of Summer time Home. The present’s star Samantha Feher met him at a coaching session at a health club after which invited him again to the Hamptons. Nonetheless, she misplaced romantic curiosity when he didn’t soar up and dance on a bar together with her, in keeping with a confessional about their evening out collectively.
“I’m on the lookout for the man who will soar up on the counter and dance with me, not the man who’s gonna watch,” she mentioned.
Feher has mentioned extra about Popper’s potential romance with Madonna than both of them have, telling Web page Six they’re nonetheless pals and he or she reached out to ask him about it.
“I imply, we messaged about it jokingly, like, ‘Oh, if that is true, that’s baller,’ and he’s very imprecise,” she mentioned. “Nobody is aware of the reality.”
She added that it was “the good factor that’s ever occurred to” both of them.
How did Madonna and Popper meet?
Madonna’s son David Banda started coaching at Popper’s boxing health club, Bredwinners, which is situated in New York Metropolis.
How lengthy have they been collectively?
The precise date that their romantic relationship commenced is a little bit of a thriller, however it was doubtless a while between Banda starting at Bredwinners and Madonna and Popper’s first co-appearance on Instagram. In February 2023, the singer appeared in a collection of images together with her alleged boyfriend after his boxing match held in Brooklyn at Gleason’s Fitness center.
Within the caption, he wrote, “One other W for the books ‼️ I wanna thank my coaches, my workforce, and my Bredwinners household for pushing me to be my finest out and in of the ring. I received some good individuals by my facet.”
In March, she attended one other one in every of his matches, and in April, they took in some music at a piano recital in keeping with her Instagram Tales. Then, when Madonna shared that her Madonna: The Celebration Tour was going to Mexico, Popper was noticed in a dinner scene within the Instagram announcement video.
Aimée Lutkin is the weekend editor at ELLE.com. Her writing has appeared in Jezebel, Glamour, Marie Claire and extra. Her first ebook, The Lonely Hunter, shall be launched by Dial Press in February 2022.
