“They have always lived through Gabriel’s career. Imposing discipline, giving strength and controlling everything closely. Now, he is no longer a boy and shares his life with his wife."
Earlier this year, Brazil media reported that Gabriel Medina had split, in a professional as well as a private sense, from his mammy Simone and his step-daddy Charlie Serrano.
Charlie you know as the ubiquitous, unsmiling, ever-supportive pillar behind his equally taciturn looking son.
The split was driven, it was said, by Medina’s surprise marriage to actress and model Yasmin Brunet, parental sadness over losing their lil man, the ol empty nest syndrome.
“They have always lived through Gabriel’s career. Imposing discipline, giving strength and controlling everything closely. Now, he is no longer a boy and shares his life with his wife. It is undeniable how passionate they are,” said a friend.
Now as the rift widens beyond, it would appear, anything that would allow a rapprochement between the warring parties, Medina has slashed his mammy’s five gees a month allowance down to three-and-a-half, and Simone and Charlie have stuck a for sale sign on the fabled Gabriel Medina Institute in Maresias, which they got in the breakup deal, seeking offers around ten-mill Brazilian Real or close to two-mill US.
It ain’t all.
Charlie and Simone got a house in a lux condo and the not so flashy joint they lived in before Medina got his first title.
Also, Simone got a little under a million US in cash as part of the deal.
Medina, who is twenty seven, got to keep the six-unit luxury condo he developed with Charlie and a house in the middle of a forest where he now lives with Yasmin and a dozen adopted dogs.
Since the split he’s got back in touch with his real daddy, Claudinho, who now lives in one of Medina’s houses.
Simone and Charlie, meanwhile, are concentrating on their other prodigy, Sophia Medina, and her burgeoning career.
To manage the kid, a sports agency, SoMedina Sports, was formed as a partnership between Charlie and Sophie, Charlie taking ninety percent, Sophia, ten.
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I try to instill belief. By the way, we’ve been trying to contact you about this cult I’ve got going…
Nope. There’s video the Medina’s in HI where Sophia begs Charlie to let her go surf Off the Wall and he wouldn’t let her “because it’s dangerous”. Not only is she way behind girls her age but she also only surfs shitty tiny waves.
This is the men’s version of Brittany Spears.
Day 1. Getting a coolite board and getting my guts absolutely grated, but keeping going once I found how much faster you could go screaming across the wave face into 2′ closeout pits.
Day 1, real surfboard. I had a board previously that I learnt to stand up on, but my first memory is of catching a wave on a 6’4″ Dick Van Straalen pintail at Currumbin Alley and doing a proper bottom turn.
Did Occy go on Tour with his mum ? Can’t remember, can we get that fact checked
As a parent, I take the side of mammy and pappy. “Fuck off girl, we know what’s best for our boy”. Indeed, I’ve already told both my young daughters they won’t be getting married til they’re at least 40, or when I’m dead. I tell ‘em to read Sleeping Beauty every night and understand that they’ll live similar lives. But awake.
On the flip side, let the fuck go you greedy, clingy, overbearing helicopters. Charlie, you’re a fucking blow-in. Don’t act like you’re Eddie Rothman. Bloke’s 20 fucking 7. My old lady kicked me outta home when I was 17 coz she couldn’t afford me and the booze. Was one or the other.
The parents came out of it alright. Gabe lives with a model and feral dogs. It’s a modern day fucking fairy tale. Let it end happily.
Isn’t it astonishing or shocking how much money soccer parents feel they are entitled to, seriously the kid earned it, its the kids money Gab doesn’t have to give them a cent if he doesn’t want to and if the parents had drawn a contract for them selves then thats not parenting.
Let me introduce you to the idle rich in the UAE. Except they aren’t in warehouses. It’s big old tents on a deserted island with those big old diesel generators powering the sound systems. The packs of supermodels are brought over by helicopters.
But between the two of you, you have the gist of it.
Sure Charlie got Sophie a lawyer before she signed that deal
Says it all don’t it 90/10 split – they may find Charlie in a ditch somewhere soon!!
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Gab’s fucking rad in my book. He surfed Strand 2 years back with Flip Toledo and another young – like 14-15 years old – Brazilian grom goofy-foot who was straight up blowing down the doors on every chunky section, sending the biggest punts and almost landing them all. But Gabs was wonderful with the little pack of groms in the water. Stoking them out, giving them tips, then giving them all kinds of free ripcurl goodies in the carpark, all without cameras or attention. He’s a cool dude and a stone cold killer in my (very lightly weighted) book. But he’s also a condominium developer….?!?!?!? Torn. More as the story (under)develops.
Yeaahhh
A “stabbed” in the chest / belly without any particule of blood…. in the fucking corpse or t-shirt.
More clean, both, than a KKK member.
A horrendous “staffaked”…
Aloha Paulo. In your view what is the biggest single threat Bolsonaro poses for Brazil and will he be voted out next year?
Hah!
Their presidents have little impact on anything.
Paulo should step away from the mirror.
Hahaha you know nothing Jon Snow!
Yes, he’s done.
He’s cooked Huli
Don’t have a party till today, none of the bigs (to a large TV time to electoral propaganda).
But first of all he’s a puppet from the military arm that created this worm as candidate in 2016 in AMAN Academy (Academia Militar das Agulhas Negras – Black Needles Militar Academy).
Things went wrong and now the Armed Forces are cleaning his steps by creating an image that some generals are opposing him, and by this controlling the midia narrative from both sides.
The full idea is a 3th way candidate that could confront Lula da Silva, and erase this fucking tool steps.
That 3th way maybe will be formed by Santos Cruz (army general, and one the creators of this puppet in 2016, but now falsely posing as his opponent) and another one, maybe the ex judge from Lava Jato Operation, Sergio Moro (ex Justice prime minister from this garbage government !!!) a cheater / PSDB an elite party.
Lula now is the most acclaimed candidate.
This genocide worm it’s cooked now by his own creator’s.
Curiously this 3thway it’s his chance, and for his 04 sons, to scape from judgments in High Court, conviction and subsequent imprisonment.
His role till his first day as president, was to equip all sectors with the military corps, and destroy the established educational bases, aiming at a militarist vision on the right wing.
Our country, now, currently has 6,000 military personnel occupying public positions in large state companies / public sectors such as development banks, public universities, and ministries related to culture / arts / education / health at all its internal levels.
This is absurd, military from the 03 armed forces occupying positions in the country’s public administration, equipping the state. Quite simply? The military’s place is in the headquarters, forths, barracks, not in the public city, intervening in the direction of the country and in the lives of citizens. This has a very clear name: dictatorship.
If that 3rh way wins Brazil will be under a type of military dictatorship again, but in a less violent way than the 1964 military coup supported even by the USA.
But for this genocide worm, his time it’s definitely over… tks to all kind of forces in the universe.
Mahalo Paulo. Always good to hear the inside scoop from the bruddahs in the know.
It is all about money, Medina has the right to live his own life the way he chooses to, but he must be careful …. would his wife be after the money too? I hope not ! Good luck champ !!
Free yourselves from this shit world we living in atm and enjoy a clip of DLS back when times were good.
https://youtu.be/pjyL0HlQ9ow
Wait. 27 years old! So he was a 26 year old momma’s boy that let his step dad run the show? Wow. Surfing has really gone soft. The most dominant surfer in the world right now didn’t put his pants on until a year ago. I don’t think any of top surfers of the 50’s, 60’s, 70’s, 80’s, or 90’s even had parents. They were raised by wild packs of drop outs that roamed the coastline of non conformity. As far as I know Dino Andino was the first pro surf parent to have any success. But still no title.
Clearly you have no idea what’s like to live with an abusive family. Especially one with fundamentalist relegious beliefs. It’s almost like being in a private cult.
Title? I’d take an actual event win for my boy Kolohe. It blows my mind it hasn’t happened yet. He’s so good.
My theory is that Kolohe (even though his name means trouble) is too nice a guy that cares too much about others to do what needs to be done in order to win. If that is true then Dino did an amazing job raising a good human rather than a winner with ice in his blood. Or Kolohe just sucks a comps or something.
Catastrophic?
Sounds pretty fuken sorted.
Well, catastrophic for the leeches
Good thing Medina smart and not go south years back to have a Charlie conservator tho stepdaddy think he is.
So he’s straight then
Life imitating parody
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