Manti Te’o is back in the news along with an embarrassing story of being catfished. The renewed attention on the football player is due to a new streaming show on Netflix. That has a lot of viewers wondering: Where is Manti Te’o now, in 2022? The answer to the latter question is: Yes, he has a wife. Her name is Jovi Nicole Engbino. She posts pictures with Te’o and their child on her Instagram page. Te’o is also on Instagram, where he recently weighed in on the Netflix show. The media wrote a series of heartfelt stories about Te’o’s supposed girlfriend, Lennay Kekua, dying of leukemia back in 2012. According to The New York Post, Ronaiah Tuiasosopo is now a trangender woman named Naya Tuiasosopo. Tuiasospo, it later turned out, made up Kekua, essentially catfishing Te’o by using a former high school classmate’s pictures. The photos of “Lennay Kekua” were of a real woman named Diane O’Meara, who later revealed that she was a former high school classmate of Tuiasosopo. She had no idea he was going to use them to catfish a football star. In 2022, Netflix streamed the show, “Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist.” The caption reads, “From Notre Dame to the NFL, Manti Te’o’s future in football showed promise until a secret online relationship sent his life and career spiraling.” Here’s what you need to know: Te’o Has Spoken Out About the Netflix Show Te’o spoke to “CBS Mornings” after the Netflix show began streaming. “In order for me to kind of heal from this, I needed to reveal it,” Te’o told the show. “I challenged myself at this time that if anybody asked about it or had questions about it, that I would be open and I would have those hard conversations, and I started to feel the strength that I would get from talking about it.” I didn’t know what to believe. You don’t expect for somebody to say ‘Hey, somebody’s dead,’ and three months later, ‘Somebody’s alive.’ What do you do with that information? Do you call somebody and say, ‘Hey, I just found out somebody’s alive.’ He also wrote about the show in an Instagram post: As I sit here and think about the journey that it has been to come to this point, I am extremely humbled. I want to publicly thank everyone who has been a part of my journey because you all have played a vital role into me getting to where I am today. To all the people that have supported me and have stood up for me, this one is for you. Thank you for your unwavering love and support. You have no idea what that has meant to me the past 10 years. To my family, we’ve been through it all…the highest of highs and the lowest of lows but I’m forever grateful that I had you all with me, every step of the way. Last but not least, God…thank you. Thank you for all lessons. Thank you for all the hard times. Thank you for the good people throughout the years that have reached out to show love and support when it was not the most popular thing to do. I hope you all enjoy this project. Tune in on Netflix to watch it. Te’o Now Has a Wife & Is a Free Agent in Professional Football Untold: The Girlfriend Who Didn’t Exist | Official Trailer | Netflix Born into a Hawaiian paradise, All-American football standout Manti Te’o leads a simple life summed up in just three words: faith, family, football. College football’s golden boy could do no wrong, but when tragedy strikes, the increased scrutiny of his online relationship causes a media maelstrom that threatens his future and legacy. Featuring in-depth interviews… 2022-07-19T14:30:00Z According to USA Today, today Te’o is a free agent in professional football. “Te’o is married with one daughter and has a son on the way,” reported CBS. According to The Sun, Te’o met his future wife in 2016, and they married in 2020. According to the Sun, “she formerly worked as a sales support specialist but is now a trainee nurse and fitness instructor.” In 2020, she wrote on Instagram, “Yesterday I got to marry my best friend and the love of my life in an intimate beach ceremony❤️ Although this was not how we envisioned our ceremony, it was perfect. We will be having our reception and celebration when Temples and venues open back up so we can share this special occasion with our families and I couldn’t be more excited.” Te’o wrote a shoutout to his wife: I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life but dang I got this one right. Through all the injuries, jokes, memes, hashtags, doubts, mistakes, she held me down and stood up for me just like my family did and that’s how I knew. When the world turns their back on you, look around…those that are still there are the ones that will ALWAYS be the
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