EXCLUSIVE: Miami Heat star Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union’s coming out
Tags: ABC, Dwyane Wade, FlashForward, Gabrielle Union, Miami Children's Hospital, Miami Heat
| Saturday 17 October 2009 11:33 am
Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade and his mistress, C-list actress Gabrielle Union, have tried desperately to keep their relationship a secret, but this week has been a coming out party of sorts for them.
Either that, or they’re getting careless.
First, the lovebirds were spotted in full on canoodles in a private club level suite at Land Shark Stadium during Monday Night Football, and missed long stretches of an epic game.
Then last night, although she sneaked in through the back door, Wade took Union to the yearly Miami Children’s Hospital gala — one of Miami’s biggest social rendez-vous of the year.
Wade and Union at Friday's Miami Children's Hospital gala (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)
Wade and Union, who has a recurring role in the ABC scifi series FlashForward, giggled like school kids at the table of Miami philanthropist Juan Carlos Mas. They held hands under the table, when Wade didn’t rest his left paw on her lap or sneak an occasional peck.
Wade later in the evening pronounced himself honored to be inducted in the famed hospital’s hall of fame.
Who gets in?
Wade and Union at Friday's Miami Children's Hospital gala (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)
“People who have gone above and beyond for children,” said the hospital’s VP for marketing, Jamie Holt.
Wade joins in the hall the likes of songbird Beyonce, legendary University of Miami QB Jim Kelly and actress Kelly Preston (John Travolta’s missus).
Holt tells me Wade, who obviously forgot his dinner jacket on his way to the black-tie, first came on the fund-raisers’ radars two years ago. As Wade nursed a serious injury, he quietly spent hours watching Heat basketball on television with ill children treated at the facility. Holt also cited Wade’s own charity for at-risk children, Wade’s World, as another reason for his induction.
“I was floored when I was picked,” Wade said. “A lot of people helped me when I was growing up. Helping children is in my DNA.”
Wade’s nasty divorce from wife Shiovaughn, by the way, is still pending in a court in the couple’s native Chicago. Allegations in the case include that last season’s top scorer hasn’t been seeing much of his own three young boys and repeatedly cheated on Shiovaughn. Wade is also entangled in a legal battle with a business partner who claims he rented a pad in Miami Beach for Wade where sex parties took place.
Wade's publicist, Lisa Joseph, try to hide what the world knows (Michele Sandberg/Special to Page2Live)
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Atleast have a bit of respect for your children’s mother - finalize the divorce first. The children will find out.
I’m all for Wade, but he needs to get his priorities straight.
Please, he is separated from his wife and that should not stop him from taking a date to the Miami Children’s Gala. And yes, the children will find out, so what? His life still shouldn’t stop just because
his divorce is still pending and just because he has kids.
I am not losing any sleep worrying if Wade is getting any p***y.
I’m not altogether sure if this relationship started prior to his divorce, or is this relationship the cause of his divorce. However, if she caused promblems in this relationship prior to his seperation, he should not be flunting her around in his wife and children faces. Come clean Wade, have some respect get a divorce first.
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Obviously, he is moving on and there is nothing wrong with that. Good for him and Gabi…wish them happiness & all the best!
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I see no problem with Wade bringing Gabrielle union to the event. He is in the midst of a divorce. Also in the Black community, Sister Gabrielle is much more than a C-list actress! She’s a fine black sister who lends her name to various community causes.
If it’s true it’s sad That women in america can actually settle for 2nds. Just because u like being in the star-light means you have to stay in it…. Beauty has an expiration date…. All men with careers don’t have to be celebrities, after all how hard could it be to find a real man with no-kids or wife. That believes in marriage and what it means and how to commit for which it stands….. Hey I would be honored if I could be married and last as long as her parents…… RELIGIOUS OR NOT…..
TO MAN D-WADE DO YOUR THING U GROWN AND PLUS MS. UNION IS A VERY BEAUTIFUL AND TALENT BLACK WOMAN AND TO ALL THE HATER THEY JUST WISH THEY COULD BE IN YOUR SHOES AND I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST PS THEY DID TALK GOOD ABOUT JESUS NEITHER
What a whore!
WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND AND THE WAY DUANE CHEATED ON HIS WIFE HE WILL DO THE SAME TO BITCHGRILLE AND SHE DESERVES IT.
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“get a divorce first, get a divorce fist,” please!! half of you all commenting have children out of wedlock be real.