Are we living in the future? From driverless cars to celebrities joy-riding to space, it feels like we have officially entered the next era. And A-listers are leading the way. Tom Brady just announced that his new dog Junie is a clone of his late dog Lua. Yes, you read that right. A clone. Through an announcement from Colossal Biosciences, a biotech company that the former quarterback is an investor in, Tom confirmed that the clone of the pit bull mix was successful.
Tom shared his late dog Lua with his ex-wife Gisele Bündchen. The pup died in December 2023. The seven time Super Bowl champion stepped out with his new dog June, who looked freakishly similar to Lua. “I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family,” Tom said in the release. “A few years ago, I worked with Colossal and leveraged their non-invasive cloning technology through a simple blood draw of our family’s elderly dog before she passed.”
But Tom isn’t the only celebrity to clone his beloved pet. Here are all the A-listers living in the future.
© InstagramBarbra Streisand
Just before the Funny Girl star’s dog Samantha died in 2017, Barbra Streisand had the cells from the dog’s mouth and stomach taken. With those cells, the singer cloned her beloved pet not once, but twice. Her two puppies, Miss Violet and Miss Scarlet, are clones. “I’m waiting for them to get older so I can see if they have [Samantha’s] brown eyes and seriousness,” she told Variety.
© InstagramDiane von Furstenberg
The 78-year-old fashion designer and her husband Barry Diller cloned their late Jack Russell into terrier puppies. The couple cloned their dog named Shannon into five “daughters.” Speaking about Shannon, Barry told The Irish Times: “How can you even describe what you love? She was a super dog. She was just the loveliest, most adventurous – she was a wondrous little animal.” DVF and Barry paid some $100,000 on the process which included implanting DNA into a dog egg.
© Getty ImagesSimon Cowell
Simon Cowell is the dad to one son but the dog-parent to many. The America’s Got Talent judge has three Yorkshire terriers – Squiddly, Diddly, and Freddy. He told The Sun in 2018: “I am 100 per cent cloning the dogs, all of them. We’ve thoroughly looked into it, got all the details and I can prove to you I’m going to clone them. There is documentation.”
© Getty ImagesParis Hilton
Paris Hilton has always been an animal lover. She rose to fame in the early 2000s and was constantly spotted carrying a little chihuahua in her purse. To keep her beloved dog in her life for longer, the 44-year-old cloned the pet. Paris’ mom, Kathy Hilton, confirmed the news to Us Weekly, saying: “The two little twins that were cloned, they stay together, they walk together, they kind of huddle and lay into each other like twins.”
Paris named her cloned dogs Diamond and Baby and revealed the news during an episode of her reality show Paris in Love.
