Tom Brady Cloned His Dog, If Anybody Even Cares

This week, Brady casually dropped the bombshell that his new dog, Junie, is a clone of the family’s former pit mix, Lua, who died in December 2023.

By Claire Guinan  |  November 6, 2025 | 12:29pm
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Tom Brady Cloned His Dog, If Anybody Even Cares

It’s been a busy week—what with Election Day, the government still being shut down, and having to constantly keep up with the Kardashians—we’re all overwhelmed. But I’m sorry, I cannot let this one slide. I mean, this is the journalism you come here for, after all.

On Tuesday, Tom Brady casually dropped the bombshell that his new dog, Junie, is a clone of the family’s former pit mix, Lua, who died in December 2023. You read that right, a clone. Did he really think he could toss that info out there and it would slip under the radar? Sorry, Tom. Not on my watch.

The cloning was carried out by the not-at-all supervillain-sounding company Colossal Biosciences (cue lightning and thunder), which used a blood sample taken from Lua while she was still alive. To make matters even weirder, this whole announcing you cloned your dead dog thing was part of a joint press release with Colossal, because, surprise, surprise, Brady is an investor!

“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. In a few short months, Colossal gave my family a second chance with a clone of our beloved dog,” Brady said. Then, of course, he added a little corporate synergy moment: “I am excited how Colossal and Viagen’s tech together can help both families losing their beloved pets while helping to save endangered species.”

Remember in April, when that biotech company “brought back the dire wolf”? Yeah, that was them. And now Colossal has acquired Viagen Pets and Equine—the same folks who cloned Barbra Streisand’s dog Samantha in 2017 and turned Paris Hilton’s missing dog, Diamond Baby, into two new puppies in 2022. Just super normal stuff.

In 2019, Brady made a cameo in Netflix’s Living with Yourself, a Paul Rudd comedy-drama about a man who starts going to a strip mall spa only to learn that they’re slowly cloning him into a better version of himself. Brady plays himself and is revealed to be a visitor to the secretive spa. We all laughed at the time, but maybe we shouldn’t have. What was a joke to us became inspiration for Brady.

Imagine being Gisele—Tom’s ex-wife, who split from him in 2022 after 13 years of marriage—and finding out your ex cloned the dog you adopted together. You can bring your dog back, Tom, but you can’t bring back your marriage!

Maybe that’s the lesson he’ll learn if he tries to clone more dogs and relive his glory days as a Fox Sports broadcaster. You can’t recreate the past. You can look back, sure, but don’t get caught staring, because while you’re busy playing God or quarterback or whatever it is, there are plenty of amazing dogs in shelters right now who could use some love.

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