“Saturday Night Live” legend Dave Spade made a cheeky — and characteristically hilarious — pass at a gorgeous Aussie newsreader, by “posing” as A-Rod.
The former slugger made news last week when “Today Extra” anchor Belinda Russell revealed that — amid his break-up with Jennifer Lopez — he direct-messaged her on Instagram to compliment her TikTok account, saying “great content.”
Then, a few days later, she revealed that Spade had kidded around with her, pretending to try and benefit from A-Rod’s DM game.
Russell said on the show that Spade had sent her an Instragram message saying, “Hey. It’s ARod. New phone.”
Married Russell — who seems ready to put the A-Rod “scandal” behind her — called Spade the “The King of Comedy” and said he had “delivered us the perfect punchline for history to be over.”
Meanwhile, a rep for A Rod claimed that it wasn’t the former Yankee who sent the message to Russell in the first place.
E! reported that a rep for Rodriguez was “not the one who reached out to Belinda. Instead, his daughters — Natasha, 16, and Elle, 13 — got in contact with the media personality through his social media account.”
The rep claimed to E! the two US-based teen are “big fans” of the Australian TV host.
Of course, Rodriguez and Lopez broke off their two-year engagement in April, with Rodriguez’s phone habits contributing. A source told Page Six in March that Rodriguez’s FaceTiming with “Southern Charm” star Madison LeCroy “was the reason they finally broke up. There were already problems, but Jennifer was really embarrassed by it.”
She’s now dating former flame Ben Affleck.