No, you didn’t misread that, a Brazilian football player is celebrate a marriage for the second time, and the lucky lady is related to his former partner and the mothe of three of his children.
Givanildo Vieira de Sousa, better known as Hulk, is a winger for Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro.
The 38-year-old is known for his strength (hence the nickname), shot power, directness and lethal finishing on the pitch, but his private life has led to raised eyebrows.
The footballer is set to hold a wedding ceremony with his second wife (Instagram/hulkparaiba)
Hulk was married to Iran Angelo from 2007 and 2019 after meeting in Japan, sharing sons Ian and Tiago and daughter Alice.
And just five months after they split, in December 2019, rumours started to spread that he began dating her niece, Camila Angelo, and they officially married in September 2020, while Hulk was playing for Shanghai SIPG in China.
According to Portal Leodias, the ex-FC Porto and Zenit St.Petersburg player will marry Camila in December, over four years since their civil ceremony.
The relation between Iran and Camila means that Hulk’s bride was once his niece-in-law, with the situation being made even weirder with the fact that his children with Iran are actually cousins, albeit not by blood, to his new wife.
Hulk and Camila announced they were expecting their second child in December 2023, after their first child, Zaya, was born in April 2022.
New reports reveal that the couple’s wedding ceremony will be held on a beach on the coast of Paraiba, Brazil, though an exact date has not yet been confirmed.
The former Brazil international played football in China from 2016-2020, ending his 15-year stint overseas and returning to Brazil with Mineiro.
Hulk’s wedding may be postponed if his club progress in the Libertadores Cup (MB Media/Getty Images)
If his club progress in the CONMEBOL Libertadores Cup, leading them to compete in the FIFA Intercontinental Club Cup, the wedding may have to be delayed as their season would be extended.
Best known for his time at Porto, where he won the Europa League and four Portuguese titles, it was reported that Hulk actually came clean to his family about his relationship with Camila while playing in Shanghai.
A spokesperson for the forward said in a statement at the time: “Hulk called the parents and the brother of Camila and told them the truth.
“It was Hulk himself who made the information public because he had nothing to hide.
“His position is transparency and he wants to avoid lies and malicious comments.”
But this groomsman did the unthinkable and refused to cave to the bride’s demands after she asked him to take part in an elaborate prank which she bizarrely wanted to unfold at the altar.
Discussing his dilemma on the Reddit forum ‘Am I The A**hole’, he wrote: “The farthest she’s ever gone was ‘accidentally’ destroying the groom’s sh**ty Toshiba laptop and surprising him with a brand new modern Alienware one that he had been saving for two years for (she backed up everything and only destroyed the screen, so stuff could still be salvaged just in case).
“Pretty sweet stuff, honestly. My friend is a bit more of the serious, logician type so she balances him out a lot.”
The groomsman said the couple both aren’t that bothered about the ‘ceremony aspect’ of their big day, so are getting hitched at a courthouse and instead using their budget for a nice reception with close friends and family in attendance.
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Their ‘I do’s’ are going to be so intimate that only the groomsman, best man, maid of honour, a handful of friends and ‘some of the groom’s family’ will be there to witness the moment.
The post continued: “The bride was all for this as she can get really anxious in big events like this, but she still feels like it’s not something to really ‘write home about’.
“So, she wants to pull a pretty notable prank by having a dramatic objection or something during the ceremony.”
And since the groomsman will be the only single one in the room, the bride reckons he is the perfect candidate to halt the nuptials and pretend he is declaring his love for her – only to ‘vie for the groom’ at the last minute instead.
“Then she wants us to do a sword fight for his hand??? I wish I was joking, but she and the groom actually have a sizeable sword collection, and she said she’d get her maid of honour to sneak two of the smaller ones,” he wrote.
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Thankfully, the lead bridesmaid also disapproved of the plan and branded it a ‘stupid idea’, but the bride herself just wouldn’t drop it, instead promising to get fake swords ‘since there could be issues in smuggling actual weapons’.
“Plus, she’d run it by the officiant and whoever else she’d have to at the courthouse to make sure not too much of a commotion was created,” the bloke added.
Despite being a self-proclaimed ‘doormat’, the groomsman plucked up the courage to say no, which obviously was disappointing for the bride and left him feeling ‘immediately guilty’.
He said he ‘stupidly’ offered to think of a joke to pull, but the bride and maid of honour have now added him into a group chat where they are pressuring him to ‘reconsider’.
“I’ve constantly tried reiterating how I didn’t feel comfortable with the pranks and they’d try to reassure me, trying to get me to reconsider.” he said.
“The maid of honour is calling me an asshole for not following the bride’s wishes, as are one other mutual friend who the bride talked to about this.”
However, Redditors rushed to reassure the groomsman he had done the right thing by refusing to put himself in an awkward position as one person pointed out ‘she’ll have a lifetime with him making pranks’, so their wedding day should be off limits.
Another said it was a ‘weird thing to do’, adding: said: “Even if your friend normally ok with his bride’s prank, nothing guarantee he’ll appreciate it on his wedding day. Better safe than sorry.”
Someone else added: “I’d be shocked if the courthouse allows them to bring in anything that even remotely resembles a real weapon. They don’t really screw around with security.”
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