Jordan Rodgers and JoJo Fletcher were exploring Hyde Park Winter Wonderland when his older brother, Jets quarterback Aaron Rodgers, discussed their family issues in his new Netflix docuseries, which started streaming Tuesday.
The couple was on vacation in London at the time, as seen in a video Fletcher posted on Instagram, which showed them sipping cocktails and eating hot dogs at the theme park.
“London in December >>> 😍🎄✨❤️,” Fletcher wrote Tuesday.
It came on the same day Rodgers discussed his estranged relationship with his family and shaded them for appearing on “The Bachelorette,” a dating show on ABC — when his younger brother was a contestant on Fletcher’s season in 2016.
During the second episode of his docuseries, Rodgers called it a “bulls–t show” and explained that he wasn’t invited to a family gathering, which included their brother Luke Rodgers, during the hometown dates.
In a scene that was filmed at Rodgers’ parents Ed and Darla’s home in Chico, Calif., the family sat together at a table with two open chairs, which were meant for Rodgers, who was playing for the Packers, and his then-girlfriend, actress Olivia Munn.
“And what do they do? They go on a bulls–t show and leave two empty chairs,” Rodgers said in the docuseries.
Fletcher acknowledged the family rift in a confessional at the time.
“[Jordan] comes from such an amazing family with so much love and so much character — but sitting down at that table, there are two empty seats and I know that they probably wish Aaron was sitting in one of them,” Fletcher said.
“It’s hard because that’s Jordan’s brother, that’s Luke’s brother, that’s Ed and Darla’s son. I have no idea, nor could I even imagine why Aaron wouldn’t want to be a part of their lives.”
Jordan accepted Fletcher’s final rose, winning the season 12 of “The Bachelorette,” and they got engaged in May 2016.
The veteran quarterback did not attend their wedding in 2022.
They have yet to directly address Aaron’s comments.
Jordan, who was a former quarterback at Vanderbilt, had a short stint in the NFL before moving on to sports broadcasting.
Rodgers didn’t get into exact details about what led to his estrangement with his family, but he explained that it started when he was in high school.
“It wasn’t like I was super duper close with everybody in the family. I was close with my little brother,” Aaron, 41, said of Jordan, 36, said. “But in actuality, it goes back to stuff from high school that kind of made me feel distant. Stuff in college, stuff post-college.”
Rodgers did admit that he would be open to a reconciliation with his family.
“People ask me, ‘Is there hope for reconciliation?’ I say, ‘Yeah of course. Of course,’” Rodgers said on the Netflix show. “I don’t want them to fail, to struggle, to have any strife or issues. I don’t wish any ill will on them at all. It’s more like this — we’re just different steps on a timeline of our own journeys.”
