India, Nov. 5 -- Tom Brady, the NFL legend and Fox Sports announcer, revealed in an interview with the entertainment magazine People that his pet dog, Junie, is a clone of his previous dog, Lua, who died in 2023. Shortly after the reevaluation, Brady, along with Colossal Biosciences, a Texas-based bioengineering firm that cloned the dog, published a joint statement on the cloning.

"I love my animals. They mean the world to me and my family," Brady said in the interview with people.

"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," he said. Brady described as a "second chance with a clone of our beloved dog," for him and...