Former NFL quarterback Troy Aikman has a much younger girlfriend after his breakup with his wife, Catherine “Capa” Mooty.
Troy Aikman has recently been under the spotlight for anything but football. The former quarterback has retired and made a career as a sports announcer. But he was more well known in recent years from what the rumor mill has been churning. Aikman steadily battled rumors of being gay since the early 1990s. He said, “I’m upset about it because it was made up and there was nothing accurate about anything that was insinuated…I am probably more upset because I probably should have responded to it at the time it was going on.”
But today, it is not Aikman’s gay rumors that we are going to tackle, but his new love life. Aikman and Mooty had a whirlwind romance almost seven years ago in 2017. After proposing in the same year, the two tied the not and seemed very happy. However, fans started noticing trouble in Paradise as early as 2019.
According to internet sleuths and reports, Aikman hasn’t posted a picture with his wife on Instagram or any social media accounts since 2019. And for a couple who seemed to be so in love that they tied the knot after a few months of knowing each other, it was very curious. However, the couple hadn’t gone on public yet to define their relationship and comment on the rumors.
So the world was shocked when a New York Post article was published last June 7, 2023, saying that Mooty and Aikman hadn’t been on good terms in a few years. Then, it was followed by photos from Haley Clark’s social media, showing that Clark and Aikman seemed to be more than friends.
Many other publications followed suit in reporting that Troy Aikman and Capa Mooty’s marriage is over. Another report from the New York Post a day after their initial publication said that the two had been separated as early as 2020. Then, after a month, Aikman finally put an end to the rumors when he announced that he and his ex-wife had been divorced on amicable terms.
Internet sleuths were shocked and looked back on Instagram posts on Aikman and Haley Clark’s accounts and saw that the two might have been dating since February of this year. They appeared on each other’s Instagram Stories and even went on a vacation together with Aikman’s daughters in Italy in June.
After the pictures of Aikman and Clark circulated, Clark made her Instagram private, but she reverted back to getting her account public in late August. This was probably prompted by Aikman’s announcement of his divorce from Mooty.
When Clark made her account public again, fans were able to see that she posted photos of her and Aikman on a trip to Italy. But that isn’t what people were focusing on. Netizens were more intrigued by the huge age gap between the two. Troy Aikman is 22 years older than Haley Clark, after all. However, it seems that the two are deeply in love and are finally ready to show it to the world.