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Future ruins Ciara’s cute moment with Russell Wilson and son

POP star Ciara and NFL player Russell Wilson are America’s hottest new couple. This photo made another celebrity furious.

THESE photos seem innocuous, but they appear to be at the centre of a bizarre celebrity love triangle.

First, some background. American pop star Ciara and rapper Future have a child together, who is named Future Zahir. The couple were engaged, but split from each other a year ago, and Ciara is now dating NFL star Russell Wilson, who plays at quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks.

Over the weekend, images surfaced of Ciara and Future Zahir joining Wilson at the Seahawks’ training camp. In response, Future (the rapper) took to Twitter to “express” himself.

“Never make a permanent decision over a temporary circumstance #umtoobossedup,” Future tweeted before adding, “Don’t direct my tweets to kno punk ass h**.”

The snaps in question feature Seattle’s new $87 million man embracing the QB-in-training — wearing a matching No. 3 jersey, no less — while mum Ciara totes a football.

Future has been spilling details surrounding his broken engagement with Ciara more frequently these days, leading to speculation that he’s using her to boost record sales for his latest album.

“It’s definitely part of the plan,” a source told the NY Post. “When they split up, everyone hated him because he cheated. He’s been painting her as this diva and villain to make himself look better and to take the heat off of him cheating.”

One of Future’s final tweets from Saturday contains a nod to his new album, “DS2.”

Wilson has no need for self-promotion after becoming the second-highest player in the NFL.

After a long few months of tense negotiating the star quarterback signed Friday for four years and $87.6 million.

The deal includes a $31 million signing bonus and approximately $60 million in guaranteed money. Ciara was one of the first to congratulate him.

Wilson was entering the final year of an entry level deal that gave him an average salary of $749,176 per year. His new average of $21.9 million puts him just a shade behind the Packers’ Aaron Rodgers ($22M) for the highest QB salary in the NFL.

Ciara and Future called off their engagement a year ago. The Atlanta-born rapper says their musical differences — as well how much their wedding would be in the spotlight — caused a rift in their relationship.

In his new docu-series “Like I Never Left,” the 31-year-old father of four shares his side of the highly publicised breakup.

Although his explanation comes off as muddled, Future says Ciara, 29, began working on her latest project, “Jackie,” and didn’t include Future or Mike Will Made It in the plans. The men helped create Ciara’s 2013 hit song “Body Party.”

Future and Ciara.
Future and Ciara.
Ciara and son Future Zahir Wilburn.
Ciara and son Future Zahir Wilburn.

“I was like, ‘Damn, we just came off a number one and you go straight to Dr. Luke and start working with him,’” said Future. “’We should do that, we should just finish what we started and go back to that “Body Party” lane’ … But she was like, ‘Nah, I want to record it this way.’ So me and Mike didn’t even get a chance to work on the last album, even though we had a number one. I thought that was a little weird. And we still in a relationship so it was, like, she kind of threw me off.”

At the time, the couple’s upcoming wedding planning was building to a fever pitch. Ciara, who by this time had given birth to the couple’s son, was on the cover of Brides magazine. She also began to dish on wedding details, hinting the ceremony would be a grand affair.

It now appears that Future wasn’t on board with those dreams and plans.

“At the same time, we were about to go and get married,” he recalled. “She was like, ‘We need a date,’ and go on and do it, and I’m like, ‘No … I want to marry you but I can’t have no big wedding on E! News. I can’t have these media outlets covering my wedding … I’m not comfortable with where I am at in my career, I’m not comfortable about compromising’.”

Originally published as Future ruins Ciara’s cute moment with Russell Wilson and son

Original URL: https://www.thechronicle.com.au/sport/future-ruins-ciaras-cute-moment-with-russell-wilson-and-son/news-story/e068749ed5bde2db3b37147e277adf54