Rio Ferdinand and his wife Kate are understood to currently be living in their luxury on the Algarve near Quinta do Lago, Portugal, where he runs summer football camps
Reality TV star Kate Ferdinand and her ex-footballer husband Rio have fled war-torn Dubai, it is believed.
The couple are now reportedly staying at their luxury villa on the Algarve near Quinta do Lago, Portugal. They headed for the holiday home after Dubai was hit by Iran’s suicide drones and missiles. Tensions continue there as Donald Trump’s administration is considering deploying an Army paratrooper division to the Middle East.
On Saturday, Rio, 47, posted a picture of himself bare-chested on his socials, sipping a bottle of Portuguese Super Bock beer on a sun-kissed terrace and wrote: “That feeling when Liverpool + Chelsea drop points in the race for the top 4”. It was a reference to the clubs’ defeats to Brighton and Hove Abion, and Everton respectively.
But the selfie was taken at the villa the star owns on the Algarve, where he and 34-year-old Kate spent last summer on holiday with their children; son Cree, five and two-year-old daughter Shae, and Rio’s daughter Tia, 13, from his first marriage to late wife Rebecca.
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Rio — who quit as a pundit for TNT last year — has two older sons, Lorenz, 19 and Tate, 17, who remained in the UK. Shortly after they upped sticks, Kate wrote how she was pining for the UK. The former TOWIE star said: “I am enjoying it, but I miss home quite a lot.
“I get upset. I miss the big boys a lot and I’m just struggling with that. I know this decision is right for my younger children and as a family we are settled there, but the boys are following their football careers.
“So, they’re doing what they want to do otherwise they’d be with us. But it’s very hard because we’ve been through so much as a family and we’ve always been together and that’s a huge adjustment.”
But the mum, a fitness guru, recently explained that she’d had a “mindset” shift and gushed about how her kids are “learning things they wouldn’t in the UK.” These include Cree learning Arabic.
Recently, Rio had spoken of how he and the family had taken cover in a bomb shelter in the first few days as missiles and drones rained down on Dubai from nearby Iran.
Speaking on his podcast, the former Manchester United defender said: ‘It’s frightening when you hear missiles, planes and fighter jets and you’re hearing bombs. It’s telling your kids what it is and helping them navigate through this moment, which is important especially as the dad of the house. You want to try and remain calm.”
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