Jordan Rodgers and JoJo Fletcher have been exploring Hyde Park Winter Wonderland when his older brother, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, mentioned their household points in his new Netflix docuseries, which began streaming Tuesday.
The couple was on trip in London on the time, as seen in a video Fletcher posted on Instagram, which confirmed them sipping cocktails and consuming sizzling canines on the theme park.
“London in December >>> 😍🎄✨❤️,” Fletcher wrote Tuesday.
It got here on the identical day Rodgers mentioned his estranged relationship together with his household and shaded them for showing on “The Bachelorette,” a courting present on ABC — when his youthful brother was a contestant on Fletcher’s season in 2016.
During the second episode of his docuseries, Rodgers known as it a “bulls–t present” and defined that he wasn’t invited to a household gathering, which included their brother Luke Rodgers, in the course of the hometown dates.
In a scene that was filmed at Rodgers’ mother and father Ed and Darla’s dwelling in Chico, Calif., the household sat collectively at a desk with two open chairs, which have been meant for Rodgers, who was enjoying for the Packers, and his then-girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn.
“And what do they do? They go on a bulls–t present and go away two empty chairs,” Rodgers mentioned within the docuseries.
Fletcher acknowledged the household rift in a confessional on the time.
“[Jordan] comes from such a tremendous household with a lot love and a lot character — however sitting down at that desk, there are two empty seats and I do know that they most likely want Aaron was sitting in one in every of them,” Fletcher mentioned.
“It’s exhausting as a result of that’s Jordan’s brother, that’s Luke’s brother, that’s Ed and Darla’s son. I do not know, nor might I even think about why Aaron wouldn’t wish to be part of their lives.”
Jordan accepted Fletcher’s remaining rose, profitable the season 12 of “The Bachelorette,” they usually obtained engaged in May 2016.
The veteran quarterback didn’t attend their wedding ceremony in 2022.
They have but to instantly tackle Aaron’s feedback.
Jordan, who was a former quarterback at Vanderbilt, had a brief stint within the NFL earlier than transferring on to sports activities broadcasting.
Rodgers didn’t get into precise particulars about what led to his estrangement together with his household, however he defined that it began when he was in highschool.
“It wasn’t like I used to be tremendous duper shut with everyone within the household. I used to be shut with my little brother,” Aaron, 41, mentioned of Jordan, 36, mentioned. “But in fact, it goes again to stuff from highschool that type of made me really feel distant. Stuff in school, stuff post-college.”
Rodgers did admit that he can be open to a reconciliation together with his household.
“People ask me, ‘Is there hope for reconciliation?’ I say, ‘Yeah in fact. Of course,’” Rodgers mentioned on the Netflix present. “I don’t need them to fail, to battle, to have any strife or points. I don’t want any ailing will on them in any respect. It’s extra like this — we’re simply completely different steps on a timeline of our personal journeys.”
