Bradley Cooper's Ex Irina Shayk Is Not Happy About Gigi Hadid.. Here's Why

Name: Bradley Cooper's Ex Irina Shayk Is Not Happy About Gigi Hadid.. Here's Why
Uploaded: 2026-09-21T18:43:27+00:00
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00:00Irina Shayk and Bradley Cooper share a daughter and years of history,

00:03but insiders say they're still unfinished business.

00:06Now that Cooper is building a life with Jiggy Haddad, reports claim Shayk hasn't taken it well.

00:12Keep watching because the people closest to them say this story is far from over.

00:16Let's get straight into it.

00:18In late October 2023, word broke that Bradley Cooper was seeing Jiggy Haddad.

00:23And within days, sources were telling entertainment outlets exactly how Irina Shayk felt about it.

00:28A source told Page Six that Irina wasn't happy with Bradley for dating another supermodel.

00:34One who's younger and that it took her by surprise.

00:37That's not a vague second-hand rumor.

00:40That's a direct line into Shayk's mindset.

00:42Delivered right as the Cooper-Haddad story was breaking.

00:45And here's what makes it land harder.

00:48Haddad isn't just another woman.

00:50She's a fellow supermodel, someone who runs in the exact same industry circles as Shayk.

00:55Walks the same runways, gets photographed by the same paparazzi outside the same downtown restaurants.

01:01Haddad is nine years younger than Shayk, and according to that Page Six source, that detail is precisely what stung.

01:08So what did Shayk do with that reaction?

01:10According to the reporting, she didn't sit quietly.

01:13Insiders described her strategy in blunt terms.

01:16Since hearing the news, Shayk reportedly took matters into her own hands.

01:20And used every opportunity to be photographed by paparazzi looking her best.

01:24The message being sent, according to that source, was essentially,

01:28Look baby, I'm still hot.

01:29A direct, pointed signal aimed at her ex.

01:33Now to understand why this hit the way it did, you need the timeline.

01:37Just months before Haddad entered the picture, Shayk had been the one moving on, publicly, romantically.

01:42With one of the most famous athletes on the planet.

01:45She'd started seeing Tom Brady, fresh off his divorce from Jaisal Boonchen.

01:50And by the summer of 2023, the two were photographed leaving hotels together, holding hands, looking every bit like a

01:57new power couple.

01:58A source close to Shayk described her as genuinely smitten, saying Shayk was impressed with Tom, calling him her dream

02:04guy, and saying she loved dating him.

02:07But while Shayk was off with Brady, she and Cooper were still tangled up in each other's lives.

02:11In late August 2023, the two exes traveled to Italy together with their daughter, Lei.

02:17And while insiders insisted it was a family trip and not romantic, the paparazzi photos told a different story.

02:24Shayk and Cooper photographed close, relaxed, vacationing like a couple.

02:28A source close to the family framed it as being purely for their daughter's benefit, saying the Italy trip was

02:34fun for everyone, because Li wanted them all to travel together.

02:37Then within weeks, everything flipped. The Brady romance, which had looked like Shayk's fresh start, quietly fell apart.

02:44Insiders told reporters it simply fizzled. TMZ reported the breakup, with a source confirming things between the two had fizzled

02:51out, adding there was no drama between them.

02:54Around that exact same window, Cooper's name started getting linked to Jiggy Hadid.

02:59So picture the sequence. Shayk's own rebound romance ends quietly.

03:03Days later, her ex, a man she'd just vacationed with in Italy, is suddenly the subject of dating rumors.

03:10With one of the biggest names in the modeling industry.

03:13That's the setup that produced the reaction sources described.

03:17It wasn't just an ex moving on. It was an ex moving on immediately.

03:21With someone, Shayk would have every professional and personal reason to notice.

03:26And the sources didn't stop at describing her surprise.

03:29They went further, painting a picture of someone still holding out hope for reconciliation.

03:34Following the news for that same reporting, the read from insiders was that Shayk seemed adamant about the idea of

03:40eventually getting back with Cooper.

03:42And that her renewed paparazzi appearances were less about confidence for its own sake.

03:47And more about reminding him what he'd potentially thrown away.

03:51This wasn't a new theme, either.

03:53Sources had made near-identical claims months earlier.

03:56Back when it was Shayk, who was the one dating someone new.

03:59At that point, insiders described her conditions for ever reconciling with Cooper.

04:04With one source noting that years had already been invested in the relationship.

04:09And suggesting she'd be ready to commit again, if Cooper ever was.

04:12So even while she was linked to an NFL legend.

04:16And even while Cooper was reportedly dating one of the world's most recognizable models.

04:20The undercurrent from people around Shayk kept circling back to the same idea.

04:25That the door with Cooper was never fully closed on her end.

04:29That's the emotional core of this story.

04:31A woman who, according to multiple sources, never stopped viewing her ex as unfinished business.

04:37Watching him step into a relationship with someone younger.

04:40Someone equally famous.

04:41Someone occupying the exact same industry space she does.

04:45To understand why that combination hit so hard, we have to go back further.

04:50To who Bradley, Cooper, and Irina, Shayk actually were to each other.

04:54And how a nearly five-year relationship and a shared daughter turned into one of the most talked about,

04:58will-they, won't-they situations in Hollywood.

05:01To understand why Shayk's reaction carried the weight it did,

05:05you need to understand what she and Cooper built together before any of this started.

05:09The two dated from 2015 to 2019.

05:12A relationship that outlasted plenty of Hollywood marriages.

05:15In April 2017, they welcomed a daughter, Lee de Sen, Shayk Cooper.

05:20That's not a fling, that's four years together and a child.

05:24Which is exactly why so many people around them kept expecting a reunion long after the breakup was announced.

05:30When they split in 2019, neither side went scorched earth.

05:34There was no public feud, no messy tabloid war.

05:37Instead, what emerged over the following years was something rarer in celebrity breakups.

05:42A functioning, even affectionate co-parenting relationship,

05:46one both of them spoke about warmly in interview after interview.

05:50Back in 2021, Shayk pushed back on the very idea of the word, co-parenting.

05:55Telling a magazine outlet that when she's with her daughter, she's 100% a mother.

06:00And when Lee's with her father, he's 100% her dad.

06:03Describing the arrangement simply as parenting, not co-parenting.

06:06By 2023, she was even more effusive.

06:09She described Cooper as someone neither she nor her daughter could dream up a better fatherhood.

06:15Adding that the arrangement worked because they made it work.

06:18Cooper, for his part, kept his own comments about fatherhood more private.

06:22Though he'd said in interviews that he wanted to learn from his own father's mistakes

06:26and shield his daughter from any of his own baggage.

06:29This is the relationship backdrop that makes the Italy trip so loaded.

06:33In late August 2023, right in the same window shake was seeing Brady.

06:38She and Cooper still took their daughter on a family vacation together,

06:42generating paparazzi photos that read as intimate.

06:45People around them insisted it was purely functional,

06:48about giving Lee the experience of her parents together.

06:51But the optics were undeniable.

06:53Two exes, comfortable enough with each other to vacation as a unit,

06:57photographed in a way that kept tabloids speculating about reconciliation for years.

07:02That speculation had precedent, too, long before Haddad entered the picture.

07:07Back when Shaikh's relationship with Brady was still the headline,

07:10insiders were already dropping hints that Shaikh hadn't closed the book on Cooper.

07:14Sources described a scenario where she'd be open to trying again with him,

07:18but only under one condition, that he was finally ready to settle down.

07:22One insider put it plainly, saying years had already gone into the relationship.

07:27And that Shaikh seemed prepared to commit fully if Cooper ever reached that same point.

07:31That framing matters because it positions Cooper, fairly or not,

07:36as the party sources believed was dragging his feet on real commitment.

07:40And it's worth remembering Cooper's relationship history here, too.

07:44Long before Shaikh, he had a brief marriage to actress Jennifer Esposito,

07:48one that lasted only a matter of months in 2006 and 2007, before ending in divorce.

07:54Esposito later wrote about a past relationship in her 2014 memoir.

07:59A passage many speculated was aimed at Cooper, describing her former partner as funny, smart,

08:05cocky, arrogant, and calling him a master manipulator.

08:08Someone with a mean, cold side, and personality that could flip on a dime.

08:13Esposito never named him outright, but reporters and fans connected the dots to Cooper for years

08:18afterward. And she stoked that speculation herself years later with a single sarcastic comment

08:23about his chemistry with Lady Gaga at the Oscars. None of that is proof of anything about who Cooper

08:30is as a partner today. But it's the kind of history that feeds a narrative. One where insiders around

08:35Shaikh kept framing Cooper as someone who needed to prove he was finally ready for a real, lasting

08:41commitment. Before any woman, including his ex, could count on him. So by the time Jiggy Haddad entered

08:47the frame in October 2023, Shaikh wasn't just watching an ex-date someone new. She was watching

08:53a man she'd spent nearly five years with, shared a daughter with, and reportedly still held out hope

08:58for. Suddenly a peer to make the exact kind of commitment insiders said he'd never made with her.

09:03And the person he was making it with wasn't a random new face. It was someone occupying the same

09:08rarefied space Shaikh herself had spent her career in. That overlapped the shared industry,

09:14the age gap, the speed of it all, is what turned ordinary ex-moves on gossip into something insiders

09:20described as catching Shaikh off guard. And it set the stage for what came next, a relationship

09:25between Cooper and Haddad that, according to nearly every source that followed, did not fizzle out the

09:30way Shaikh's fling with Brady had. It got more serious, month after month, in full public view.

09:36While Shaikh's own romance with Brady quietly ran its course, Cooper and Haddad's relationship did the

09:41opposite. It kept building, steadily and publicly, in a way that made it clear this wasn't a rebound.

09:47The first sighting came in early October 2023, when the pair were spotted exiting the celebrity

09:52hotspot by a carota in New York City's West Village, before getting into the same SUV. Days later,

09:59they were seen together again, with Haddad riding in the same car as Cooper, who was driving. By early

10:05October, a source was already telling reporters the two were having fun hanging out, describing them

10:10at an after-party with friends who all had fun. It didn't take long for the relationship to move

10:16past the hanging out stage. That same October, Cooper began showing visible support for Haddad's

10:22business. He was seen wearing custom sneakers made for the launch of her clothing line, Guest in

10:27Residence. By December, Haddad was publicly promoting Cooper too, with her brand's Instagram sharing him

10:33wearing one of its jackets. That same month, she showed up to support him, while he served food

10:38from a cheesesteak truck in New York. A small, unglamorous moment that read as more serious than

10:44any red carpet appearance could. By December 2023, sources were already upgrading their language.

10:50One insider told a major outlet the relationship was getting more and more serious, noting the two had

10:56been quietly dating for a while before it went public, being very hush-hush, while they tried to see if

11:02things would work. Another source confirmed neither of them was seeing anyone else, even if they hadn't

11:07formally defined the relationship yet. Then came the moment that, more than any other, must have

11:12registered with Shake. Cooper brought Haddad around his mother, in January 2024, after the Golden Globes.

11:19Cooper Haddad and his mother Gloria Campano had dinner together. Cooper had actually brought his mom

11:25as his official date to the awards show itself. But it was Haddad who joined them afterward for the family

11:31dinner. A detail that signaled Haddad wasn't being kept separate from Cooper's inner circle.

11:36Later that same month, the two were photographed holding hands in London. From there, the relationship

11:42kept escalating in full view of the public. Cooper purchased a home in New Hope, Pennsylvania,

11:48the same area where Haddad owns property. Sources insisted the purchase had nothing to do with the

11:53relationship, but the timing and the location spoke for itself. By spring 2024, the couple was

11:59globetrotting with A-list company. Joining Taylor Swift and Travis Kels for a getaway to Carmel-by-the-Sea.

12:05And later catching one of Swift's era's tour stops in Paris, with Kels serving as their third wheel.

12:11By July 2024, the sourcing had shifted again, this time explicitly addressing how far things had come.

12:18One insider admitted they weren't sure it was anything more than a casual fling when it started,

12:22but it had grown more serious. Adding they had a good solid social life and are really happy.

12:28A second source echoed almost the identical sentiment, pointing out that despite how busy

12:33both were with work and family, they'd managed to keep it alive and were going strong, each admiring

12:39the other's success. And noting they have kids in common. That last detail is worth sitting with.

12:45Haddad has her own daughter Kai from her relationship with Zayn Malik. So this wasn't just Cooper dating a

12:51fellow celebrity. It was Cooper building a blended family dynamic. One where his daughter with Shaikh

12:56and Haddad's daughter with Malik were being folded into the same world. Sources had actually flagged this

13:02early, noting that as far back as November 2023, Cooper and Haddad had already discussed a possible

13:08play date between Ling and Kai. By October 2024, Haddad was speaking about Cooper publicly for the first time,

13:15telling an entertainment outlet backstage at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show that Cooper

13:20was watching from home that night. Adding he was on dad duty, but so supportive. It was a small comment,

13:27but it confirmed what sources had been saying for a year. This was a domestic, stable partnership,

13:32not a fling built for paparazzi photos. Then in 2025, Haddad went further still. In an April interview,

13:39she described her relationship with Cooper for the first time in her own words, telling the publication

13:45she wanted to give herself a normal experience of dating, acknowledging that even for friends who

13:50aren't public figures, that's hard. The outlet by that point was referring to Cooper as her boyfriend

13:56of more than a year, and noted the two had actually met at a backyard birthday party for the child

14:02of a

14:02mutual friend. About as ordinary an origin story as two famous people can have. By May 2025, Haddad made

14:10things official on social media, sharing a photo of the two of them together to mark her 30th birthday.

14:16And by August of that year, speculation reached its peak when the couple was photographed wearing

14:21matching bands on the ring fingers during an outing in Paris, sparking marriage rumors neither side

14:27addressed directly. So while Shake's own relationship with Brady collapsed within months, Cooper and Haddad's

14:33relationship did the one thing insiders reportedly worried it might. It lasted, it deepened, and it

14:39became exactly the kind of stable, family-oriented partnership that sources once suggested Shake

14:45was still hoping Cooper would eventually offer her. While Cooper's relationship with Haddad was steadily

14:50solidifying, Shake's own romantic life kept swinging in a very different direction. And it's worth

14:56tracing exactly how, because it shapes how her reaction to the Haddad news should be understood.

15:01Her fling with Brady had ended in early October 2023. Described by sources as amicable, with one

15:08insider telling a reporter there was no ill will towards each other. With the breakup news coming

15:13three months after the pair were first spotted packing on PDA. By April 2024, sources were painting

15:20Shake as actively looking for her next relationship. With one insider bluntly describing her dating

15:25pool, in blunt terms. Saying she needed someone, famous, good looking and money. Asking rhetorically

15:31how many people like that even exist, five, ten. Before adding, she was even looking as far afield as

15:38Europe. Then, in a twist that added another layer to this whole saga, Shake and Brady found their way

15:43back to each other. Reports surfaced that the two had quietly rekindled things, with one source describing

15:49them as having started dating each other again, and are open to see where things go.

15:53Another insider noted they'd been in the process of planning a trip together. Explaining that since

15:59neither was in a serious relationship at the time, there was no reason not to. Interestingly,

16:05other reporting suggested the secrecy, around this second chapter, with Brady wasn't accidental.

16:10Sources indicated the secrecy between Tom and Irina, was an attempt to prevent the pressure,

16:15they felt, was one of the reasons for the end of their romance in 2023. In other words,

16:21Shake appeared to be applying a lesson, learned from her Cooper years. Where public scrutiny and

16:26constant tabloid narrative, arguably played a role in things not working out. To her second run with

16:32Brady. But even as she navigated her own relationship, Shake's connection to Cooper,

16:37never fully receded into the background. Because of the one thing that permanently ties them together,

16:43their daughter. And this is where the story takes its most human turn. Because whatever tension

16:48existed around the hatted news, whatever paparazzi strategy insiders described. The actual day-to-day

16:54relationship between Shake and Cooper, as parents kept functioning, publicly praised by both of them,

17:00repeatedly, for years. By November 2025, Shake was speaking to a major outlet about exactly how she

17:06and Cooper approached raising their daughter, now eight years old, amid two very public careers.

17:11She explained their daughter has, very, very little digital access, almost down to none. And that the

17:17priority for both parents was, building community, friends, and just giving love. Framing it as, in her

17:23words, the best thing you could give a kid, raising them in a loving family. She also noted that their

17:28daughter now, clearly understands the jobs, her parents hold. But that day-to-day life still centers on

17:34school, friends, and normal activities rather than publicity. That interview came out at the same time,

17:40Cooper's relationship with Hatted was widely understood to be heading toward marriage.

17:45And yet Shake, in her own words, kept the focus entirely on her daughter's well-being,

17:50never publicly voicing anything close to the frustration sources had attributed to her two

17:54years earlier. That contrast is worth noticing. The sourced anonymous quotes painted one picture,

18:01a woman caught off guard, using her own image to send a message to an ex. Shake's actual on-record

18:06words, months and years later, painted something calmer. A mother focused on keeping her daughter's

18:12world stable, no matter what either parent's romantic life looked like. Both things can

18:17be true at once. The private reaction insiders described in the days after the Hatted news broke,

18:23doesn't cancel out the public, cooperative co-parenting relationship shake, and Cooper maintained for

18:28years afterward. If anything, it shows how complicated it is to be an ex-partner,

18:33a co-parent, and a public figure all at the same time. Especially when the person you shared a life

18:38with moves on with someone who occupies your exact professional world. So where does all of this leave

18:44things? Cooper and Hatted, by every indication in the reporting, kept moving toward permanence.

18:50The relationship that started with a dinner date and a shared car ride in October 2023, grew into

18:56matching rings, a shared home base in Pennsylvania, a blended family dynamic between two young daughters,

19:02and according to the most recent reporting, a proposal in motion. Late in 2025, Cooper reportedly

19:09took a significant step toward proposing, asking Yolanda Hatted and Jiggy's mother for permission to

19:15marry her daughter. Sources say Jiggy has shared her own thoughts with her father and that both families

19:20are supported. As the couple, together for two years, looks toward a potential 2026 wedding and building a

19:27blended family with their daughters. That's a significant distance from where things stood

19:31back in October 2023. When a single Page Six source described Shake's surprise at Cooper,

19:37moving on with someone from her own industry. Someone younger, and the pointed message she

19:42reportedly wanted him to receive through her own paparazzi appearances. Whatever Hope insiders

19:47attributed to her about reconciliation, the trajectory of Cooper's relationship with Hatted,

19:52moved in exactly the opposite direction, toward marriage, not backward toward an old flame. And

19:58Shake, for her part, has kept building her own life in the years since. Her second chapter with Brady came

20:04and went from headlines, replaced by a quieter, more private approach to her romantic life overall.

20:10What has stayed constant, consistently, in every interview and every source close to her,

20:15is her relationship with her daughter, and her insistence, publicly, that whatever existed between her

20:21and Cooper romantically. The two of them function as a genuine team when it comes to life. She's

20:26called him the best father she could imagine for their daughter, described their arrangement as

20:31something that works because they make it work, and continued that same tone in her most recent public

20:36comments about parenting alongside a man now planning a wedding with someone else. There's something

20:42almost fitting about how this settled. The sources who described Shake's private frustration in 2023

20:48were describing a real, human reaction. The sting of watching an ex build the kind of stable,

20:54public, commitment-oriented relationship that reportedly eluded them during their own years

20:59together. That reaction doesn't need to be dismissed or explained away to make sense of what came next.

21:05People can be surprised, even bothered, by an ex's new relationship and still show up,

21:10years later, focused entirely on their child's stability rather than any lingering resentment.

21:15What the record actually shows, across two years of reporting, is a split narrative running on two

21:20tracks. On one track, anonymous sources describing surprise, a sting over the age gap, and a paparazzi

21:27strategy aimed at reminding Cooper what he was missing. On the other, two parents, on the record,

21:32in their own words, repeatedly describing a functional, even warm working relationship raising

21:37their daughter. One that held steady through Cooper's rebound, through Shake's own two chapters with

21:42Brady, and now through a looming wedding to someone from Shake's own world. Both tracks are part of the

21:48same story. Cooper moved on, publicly and permanently, with a supermodel nine years younger than his ex.

21:54Shake, whatever she felt in that first jolt of surprise, kept her focus where it mattered most,

21:59on the daughter she and Cooper still, by all accounts, parents side by side. And as Cooper and Hatted head

22:05toward the altar, that's the piece of this story that hasn't changed at all. Two exes still tied

22:10together by a little girl, still finding a way to make it work. Whether or not either of them

22:15ever expected it would look quite like this.

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