Looks likeKendall Jenneris moving on with NBA starBen Simmons!
After dating basketball playerBlake Griffin, the 22-year-old made headlines after she was seenstepping out with Simmons, 21, multiple times this week.
News of their rumored relationship first broke Tuesday night, whenPage Sixreported the pair werespotted on a lunch dateat the Beverly Hills Hotel after being seen with a group of friends at New York City hotspot Vandal last week. TMZ also reported that the duograbbed dinnerat the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills on Monday.
The Blast published a video of the coupleentering the Waldorf Astoria Hotelin Beverly Hills together around 2 a.m.
Here’s everything you need to know about Jenner’s rumored beau.
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He’s Up for the NBA’s Top Rookie Prize
Simmons is also signed toLeBron James‘ management company, Klutch Sports Group, alongsideTristan Thompson, who is currently dating and shares a child with Jenner’s sisterKhloé Kardashian.
He’s Australian
Simmons is actually from the land down under!
“I was born in Australia,” the sports star said during an episode ofThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.
He went on to explain that his father, who’s from New York, was a professional basketball player in Australia, where he ended up meeting Simmons’ mother.
Asked why he chose to move to the United States, Simmons explained, “The level of competition out here is much higher. I wanted to play against the best and be the best.”
He Dated Tinashe
Shortly after Simmons posted a since-deleted photograph of himself with Tinashe, the “All Hands on Deck” signertoldBillboardin late March, “he’s like my full boyfriend, I guess.”
Her last photo with Simmons was posted on April 20. “Thankful for you,” she wrote alongside a series of the pair cuddling up together.
She previously shared photos of herself wearing his jersey and of the pair taking a ride in his Ferrari.
“Sorry for blowing up y’all twitter everyone,” Kudzai tweeted. “It was actually the only way to defend my sister against all this bulls—.”
Though Tinashe has not commented on the cheating rumors, her other brother Thulani also retweeted Kudzai’s tweet.
He Loves His Car
Much like Jenner, the 21-year-old basketball star shows off his stylist wheels.
Posing alongside his sleekblack Ferrariin January, Simmons simply captioned the photo, “Blessed.”
A love of cars is something Simmons has in common with Jenner, who told CNN in 2016 that while “some people get addicted to tattoos,I’m addicted to cars.”
“If I love it, I love it. If I walk in and it really gets to me, I’m like okay, I need that car,” she added.
He’s a Big Spender — on Cats
On an episode of Maverick Carter’s “Kneading Dough” series, in which professional athletes discuss their strategies for money management, Simmons revealed that he regrettedspending $10,000on two Savannah cats — a very large domesticated breed.
“I had two Savannah cats…It was a bad purchase,” he said on the episode, according to CNBC.
“They were crazy,” he added.
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“I told Ben, ‘We can’t have these cats anymore. This is crazy.’” Tribe remarked, after explaining how the two cats frequently scratched and clawed at the two boys. “He was going on a road trip while he was injured, and I told Ben, ‘I am going to call the breeder and tell them we can’t quite look out for the cats anymore and they can find them a better home.’ He said, ‘Cool.’ ”
source: people.com
