Mike Vrabel’s Wife Spotted at Airport Wearing Wedding Ring After Coach’s Photo Scandal with Dianna Russini
Mike Vrabel’s Wife Spotted at Airport Wearing Wedding Ring After Coach’s Photo Scandal with Dianna Russini
Anna Lazarus CaplanWed, April 29, 2026 at 3:21 PM UTC
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Jen Vrabel, Mike Vrabel, Dianna RussiniCredit: Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty; Cooper Neill/Getty; Cindy Ord/Getty -
Jen Vrabel was seen wearing her wedding ring on Tuesday, April 28 in Salt Lake City
The mother of two shopped at the same airport boutique where her husband Mike Vrabel made a purchase four days earlier
Mike has been embroiled in an ongoing scandal after photos showed him cozied up to sportswriter Dianna Russini
Jen Vrabel was spotted wearing her wedding ring amid her husband Mike Vrabel’s photo scandal with sportswriter Dianna Russini.
Four days after the New England Patriots head coach was spotted buying a light-blue sweatshirt at a women’s boutique inside Salt Lake City International Airport, Jen was seen browsing in the same store, according to photos obtained by TMZ.
Dressed in a white puffer coat and dark-colored jeans, the mother of two sported her ring while she killed time before a flight on Tuesday, April 28.
After leaving Hip & Humble — which is described on the airport’s website as a “specialty gift store that sells a curated assortment of new female forward and lifestyle-empowering inventory” — Jen visited the Delta Sky Club before her plane boarded.
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Robert Kraft with Mike Vrabel and his wife Jen as Mike is announced as head coach of the New England Patriots on January 13, 2025 in Foxborough, Massachusetts.Credit: Billie Weiss/Getty
The Vrabels’ trip to Utah came days after the former NFL linebacker, 50, announced that he would be stepping away from the team to seek “counseling” after three sets of photos, taken between 2020 and 2026 and published in the New York Post and TMZ, showed him getting cozy with Russini, a married mother of two who was formerly the senior NFL insider at The Athletic.Follow your favorite athletes on and off the field with PEOPLE's free sports newsletter — sign up now!Married since 1999, Jen and Mike share two adult sons.While in Utah, the Patriots coach missed Day 3 of the 2026 NFL Draft, a day in which the team selected the bulk — six out of nine — of its players in this year’s draft class.
On the first day of the draft, Thursday, April 23, Vrabel gave notice that he would be absent, as he worked through the fallout of the photo scandal."I take accountability for my actions and the actions that caused a distraction to the people that I care most about,” Vrabel told reporters ahead of the draft. "My family, this football team, the organization and the fans."
He continued, “My priorities are my family and this football and in that order," he said. "There's a balance there that I’m going to create. My family needs me this weekend and that’s where I’ll be."
Now, Vrabel looks to the upcoming season after a loss in the Super Bowl in February and as the reigning NFL Coach of the Year.
In January 2025, when he was introduced as the team’s new head coach — coming full circle after playing in Foxborough for eight seasons — he made sure to acknowledge his wife for her support along the way.“I want to thank Jen, who’s been along for this ride for quite a while,” he said at the time.
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