Social media guru to the rescue! Shannon Ford set the document straight about her lunch with Jay Cutler after the pair’s November 2020 outing turned heads amid his divorce from Kristin Cavallari.
Ford, who was fired by Cavallari, 34, because the social media director of Unusual James throughout the season 2 premiere of Very Cavallari in 2019, made headlines for dining with the former NFL player, 37, seven months after his split from the designer.
“I wished to be, like, the cool woman that was genuinely similar to having fun with a drink together with her good friend and, like, Jay,” Ford, 27, stated throughout the Tuesday, January 5, episode of Expensive Media’s “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “So I used to be like, I’m not going to make this bizarre in any respect.”
Shannon Ford, Jay Cutler, and Kristin Cavallari Courtesy of Shannon Ford/Instagram; Shutterstock (2)
The influencer recalled Cutler attempting to navigate Instagram throughout the pair’s lunch with their mutual good friend Mark “Chuy” Block in Charleston, South Carolina. As he performed round with the app, he accidentally took a video, which he later uploaded.
“I need to show to them that I’m, like, not bizarre,” she defined of the outing. “After which they had been like, ‘Whoa, it’s, like, a video.’ And I used to be like, ‘Oh, OK. Truthfully, That’s unbelievable.’”
The “Most likely” podcast host famous that when the previous quarterback posted the clip “he knew it might be humorous” however often he “doesn’t give a f—ok” about social media.
The duo obtained some backlash for his or her hangout with one person saying Cutler was being “Savage AF,” whereas one other stated it was “Petty AF” primarily based on Ford’s previous along with his estranged spouse.
The South Carolina native labored for Cavallari’s jewellery firm earlier than the truth collection started, however their working relationship turned bitter after season 1 of the present. Ford’s alleged poor job efficiency led to her being let go, and the 2 haven’t mended fences since she left.
Regardless of their drama onscreen, Ford shared on Tuesday that she was “unhappy” to listen to about Cavallari and Cutler’s breakup in April 2020.
“I used to be very near Jay and Kristin outdoors of working. The model initially began in her house [in 2017], like, we had been in her front room on a regular basis working,” she recalled, noting that she noticed them as very “good mother and father” all through her time on the job. “I don’t know something about like them collectively, however I solely simply considered them as mother and father.”
She added: “There are three small children who’ve mother and father which can be divorcing and that’s unhappy. I simply genuinely imply that. That was, like, truly my ideas on it. I’m unhappy — not unhappy in the event that they don’t need to be collectively, then I’m comfortable that they’re figuring that out individually. However I’m unhappy that it’s very public and that they’ve kids.”
The Laguna Beach alum and the previous athlete called it quits after seven years of marriage in April 2020. They share sons Camden, 8, and Jaxon, 6, and daughter Saylor, 5.
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