Jude Bellingham took to social media this week to wish his model girlfriend Ashlyn Castro a happy birthday. The two were revealed to be dating in January and have been spotted together numerous times since then.
Bellingham has become one of Europe’s most famous footballers since appearing for England at the 2022 World Cup and Euro 2024. Bellingham, 22, burst onto the scene six years ago when he joined Birmingham City’s first team at the age of 16, before securing a move to Borussia Dortmund. He joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2023 and lifted the Champions League trophy less than a year later.
Bellingham celebrated his girlfriend’s 28th birthday on Wednesday by sharing a montage of photos on Instagram.
Three of the snaps showed Bellingham and Ashlyn together, while another picture showed the model sitting by a bonfire wearing a Real Madrid shirt with her partner’s name on it.
The footballer then captioned the montage: “Happy birthday my love,” while adding a green heart emoji and a party face emoji.
The post comes five and a half months after Ashlyn declared to Bellingham that she “loved him so much” and shared a birthday message of her own.
The influencer also posted a video of the couple singing karaoke together, but her followers couldn’t hear their performance because SZA’s song played in the video. And Ashlyn, who currently has more than 650,000 followers on Instagram, claimed the England star was her “best karaoke partner” before labeling him “the best dance partner” in another post.
Heartbreakingly, Ashlyn was forced to debunk false claims about her relationship history in March following online rumors.
The brunette, who has previously been romantically linked to basketball players Terrence Mann and LaMelo Ball, as well as actor Michael B. Jordan, told fans in a TikTok video:
“I’m very uncomfortable talking about my personal life on camera. I haven’t even really talked on camera very often. So bear with me.”
“People have attacked me, harassed me and been extremely disrespectful to me from every conceivable angle. It has gone too far.
“Let’s talk about this dating history. I’ve had three boyfriends in the last eight years. I first started dating in 2017, and he’s a public figure, so I’ve dealt with people talking about me and making up things about me because of that.”
“There wasn’t anything written about me on the internet before, so people just made up a bunch of stuff to justify hating me because of who I was dating at the time. And then I dated two people in the last six years, so I had a total of three relationships.”
