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Image Credit: Vianney Le Caer/Shutterstock John Cena joined Shay Shariatzadeh connected Oct. 12, 2020, successful a backstage ceremony. The mates held a ceremonial wedding successful July 2022. Shay and John began dating successful 2019, 2 years aft John and Nikki Garcia called disconnected their wedding.
WWE superstar and histrion John Cena and his wife, Shay Shariatzadeh, person been joined for astir 3 years. They primitively tied the knot successful a backstage ceremonial successful Tampa, Fla. successful Oct. 2020, and then wed successful beforehand of household and friends astatine the ritzy Rosewood Hotel Georgia successful downtown Vancouver connected July 16, 2022. They were aboriginal spotted holding hands arsenic they headed into the members-only Vancouver Club, presumably for their wedding reception, arsenic seen below.
John Cena and woman Shay clasp hands heading into the Vancouver Club connected July 15. The legally wed mates had their authoritative wedding solemnisation with friends and household successful her hometown. (Photo: TMZ / BACKGRID)Shay, 34, looked gorgeous successful a agelong sleeveless wedding formal with an unfastened backmost and floral appliqué details, paired with sparkly Jimmy Choo shoes. Meanwhile, John, 45, donned a handsome navy bluish and achromatic pinstriped suit helium matched with airy brownish formal shoes.
John and Shay’s wedding marked John’s 2nd clip getting married. As fans volition recall, helium was besides engaged to chap wrestler Nikki Bella (who present uses her surname, Garcia), for a twelvemonth betwixt 2017 and 2018 aft dating for respective years. Read connected to larn astir John Cena’s wife, Shay Shariatzadeah, their relationship, and his past romances.
Who Is Shay Shariatzadeah?
Now a household name, John Cena is wide regarded arsenic 1 of the greatest nonrecreational wrestlers of each time. In WWE, helium has earned a whopping 16 satellite championships. On apical of his lengthy wrestling resume, Cena has present created a formidable vocation successful acting, bodybuilding, tv presenting, and adjacent rapping. He’s transformed into a bonafide movie star, appearing successful blockbuster movies similar Suicide Squad and Bumblebee. His Suicide Squad character Peacemaker was specified a deed it was fixed its ain HBO Max bid called Peacemaker.
Shay Shariatzadeh and now-husband John Cena attended the premiere of ‘Dolittle’ astatine the Regency Village Theater successful Los Angele connected January 11, 2020. (Photo: AP)A acold outcry from her husband’s lengthy vocation successful the limelight, Shay studied electrical and electronics engineering astatine the University of British Columbia, wherever she received a bachelor’s grade successful 2013. “I person ever enjoyed mathematics and physics,” she said successful a Q&A with her erstwhile employer, Avigilon. “My member studied engineering successful school, and I retrieve 1 time helium came location with a project, and it was an autonomous car — and that was it! I decided to survey Engineering.”
Shay was a merchandise manager astatine Avigilon, a Motorola Solutions Company successful Vancouver, Canada. “I interviewed aggregate Product Managers to fig retired however they got into their role, and I followed their path,” she said successful a illustration connected Avigilon’s website. “Today, I instrumentality pridefulness moving successful the video surveillance manufacture due to the fact that our products assistance support radical and their assets safe, and that’s my small publication to our world.”
Notably, Shay has stayed connected to her alma mater, wherever she continues to enactment arsenic a mentor. Part of her duties includes processing and maintaining “connections to UBC and contributing to efforts to physique a stronger manufacture and community” and contributing “to the aboriginal of engineering and exertion by assisting the adjacent procreation of leaders,” according to her LinkedIn.
Shay was calved successful Iran, and she cites her parent — who works arsenic a surgeon — arsenic her inspiration. “While she was astatine the highest of her career, she gave it each up to determination her household to Canada to springiness america a amended future. She is the crushed I combat to beryllium the champion mentation of myself, to beryllium benignant and to ne'er springiness up,” she said successful Avigilon’s International Women’s Day feature.
As of this writing, it appears that Shay has taken a measurement backmost from the workforce. She past worked arsenic a merchandise manager astatine Sonatype betwixt 2019 and 2021, and past arsenic a
Program Manager astatine Microsoft for 4 months successful 2021. Shay does not person immoderate nationalist societal media accounts, and she has not appeared on John’s.
How Did John & Shay Meet?
John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh were unneurotic for a twelvemonth and a fractional earlier tying the knot. He archetypal saw Shay portion filming astatine a Vancouver edifice wherever she was eating with a radical of pistillate friends and had a love-at-first-sight moment. “There was 1 pistillate I was looking astatine and I couldn’t instrumentality my eyes disconnected her… that’s erstwhile it started,” John said successful an interrogation with Entertainment Tonight successful Oct. 2019. The mates began dating successful aboriginal 2019, and were archetypal spotted having a romanticist meal day successful her autochthonal Vancouver successful March 2019, portion John was successful Canada to movie Playing with Fire.
Shay Shariatzadeh and John Cena are seen buying successful Beverly Hills connected Jan. 14, 2020. (Photo: Shutterstock)His adjacent task took him to San Diego, wherever Shay flew successful to conscionable him arsenic they embarked connected a long-distance relationship. John showed that chivalry is not dead, arsenic helium was photographed personally taking her backmost to the airdrome aft the agelong weekends unneurotic and passionately kissing her goodbye. Shay yet landed her occupation astatine Sonatype moving remotely, which allowed her much flexibility successful keeping up with John’s jet-setting lifestyle.
John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh looked smitten astatine the ‘Playing With Fire’ premiere successful Oct. 2019 (Patrick Lewis/StarPix for Paramount Pictures/Shutterstock)They yet made their reddish carpet debut connected Oct. 26, 2019, astatine the NYC premiere of his movie Playing With Fire, wherever they were some glowing with emotion arsenic they smiled astatine the cameras. John and Shay person kept their narration comparatively debased profile, but the quality has continued supporting her antheral astatine red-carpet events. Just weeks aft their authoritative nationalist debut, the 2 were retired for different premiere: This time, for John’s flick Dolittle. As seen below, Shay was a reddish carpet pro by past and looked breathtaking successful a pleated metallic formal and a voluminous broadside braid. She proudly posed alongside John, who was beaming the full time.
John and Shay dazzle astatine the ‘Dolittle’ premiere successful Jan. 2020. (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)While the COVID-19 pandemic enactment a halt to in-person premieres for immoderate time, John and Shay were backmost astatine it by Aug. 2021 for The Suicide Squad premiere. The mates happily smiled and posed for cameras, adjacent sharing a buss for the crowd! By then, they were officially hubby and wife.
Shay supported John astatine his Aug. 2021 premiere for ‘Suicide Squad’ successful Los Angeles. The brace adjacent shared a buss for the cameras! (Matt Baron/Shutterstock)They made their astir recent reddish carpet appearance astatine the Fast X premiere connected Friday, May 12, 2023, arsenic seen below. They looked arsenic successful emotion arsenic ever arsenic John kissed his siling woman connected the cheek.
John Cena and Shay Shariatzadeh get astatine the ‘Fast X’ premiere connected May 12, 2023 (Photo: Vianney Le Caer/Shutterstock)Engagement And Marriage
Although they look to person nary occupation showing their emotion disconnected astatine movie premieres, Shay and John person kept their lips sealed astir their relationship. They didn’t adjacent corroborate their engagement directly. After Shay stepped retired wearing a ringing connected that finger, John seemingly confirmed the quality with a tweet astir marriage. “‘A blessed matrimony is simply a agelong speech that ever seems excessively short’ — Andre’ Maurois,” helium tweeted connected Feb. 18, 2020, arsenic seen below.
“A blessed matrimony is simply a agelong speech that ever seems excessively short” – Andre’ Maurois
— John Cena (@JohnCena) February 18, 2020
And arsenic mentioned above, they tied the knot successful a courthouse ceremonial aboriginal that year, and past threw a large enactment for friends and household 21 months after. Between the 2 weddings, a idiosyncratic adjacent to the mates said sparks flew betwixt the brace from the start. “It was emotion astatine archetypal sight,” the insider told PEOPLE successful Oct. 2020. [The couple] knew they would marry, truthful the [private ceremony] wasn’t a surprise. He conscionable wanted to bash it retired of the limelight.”Brie Bella Celebrity Profile – Hollywood Life
Will John And Shay Have Kids?
Thoughts of expanding their household look to beryllium connected the skyline for the couple. The Fast & Furious 9 prima candidly opened up astir perchance having kids successful a 2021 interview. “I’m a small spot older, a spot wiser. I’m realizing determination is beingness and beingness exists and it’s beauteous — and I deliberation portion of that is being a parent, truthful we’ll see,” helium confessed to the British outlet The Sun. This comes arsenic rather a astonishment owed to his strong stance against having children with his ex-fiancée Nikki Garcia, which yet contributed to the demise of their relationship. Shay hasn’t publically commented astir whether oregon not she wants kids.
John Cena’s Past Relationships
Nikki Garcia
John Cena and Nikki Bella airs astatine the ‘Blockers’ successful 2018 (Photo: Jim Ruymen/UPI/Shutterstock)As mentioned above, John was antecedently engaged to erstwhile wrestler and tv personality, Nikki Garcia. Unlike John’s existent relationship, John and Nikki were overmuch much unfastened astir their romance portion they were together, and John adjacent appeared connected Nikki and her duplicate sister, Brie Garcia‘s, world show, Total Bellas. Although their narration was afloat of galore saccharine moments, the brace often disagreed astir their aboriginal together.
In a Sept. 14 occurrence of Total Bellas, they got into a tiff due to the fact that Bella wanted to wed John and commencement a household with him, portion helium did not spot that successful his future. “I’m trying to beryllium a realist. “I’ve told you that I don’t privation to get joined and I don’t privation to person kids, and you bash privation to get joined and you bash privation to person kids,” helium said successful a clip of the show. “So I consciousness similar this is simply a time-bomb implicit my head.”
Two years later, John reasserted his stance successful an interrogation with Rolling Stone. “I cognize I cannot grip raising a chil. And conscionable due to the fact that everyone other is blessed with children doesn’t mean that’s however I person to live,” helium explained. “I’ve been upfront astir this. I conscionable person things I request to get done. It’s not negotiable. We’ve been to therapy implicit it. I don’t deliberation it volition ever beryllium implicit with. I’m stubborn arsenic f*ck and highly selfish arsenic well. I don’t privation kids, I don’t privation marriage.”
However, thing changed wrong his heart, and the pursuing year, John got down connected 1 genu for Nikki astatine Wrestlemania, which tin beryllium viewed below. Unfortunately, the longtime lovers broke up successful 2018.
“I person galore regrets astir that relationship,” Nikki admitted in her 2020 memoir Incomparable. “I privation I’d understood however the patterns successful my life, and my narration with my ain father, informed however I respond to love, boundaries, and feelings of abandonment. I deliberation I could person averted immoderate of what happened [with John.]”
That aforesaid year, she confirmed that she and John simply wanted antithetic things retired of life, and that’s wherefore they had to separate. “Overall, we did person specified an unthinkable relationship, it was conscionable 2 radical that wanted 2 antithetic lives,” she said connected the Better Together podcast. “We were trying truthful hard to marque it one.”
“Even successful the extremity erstwhile helium was consenting to springiness maine kids, I could conscionable tell, it’s not what we wanted,” she added. “And that’s really, like, you know, what pushed maine successful the end, was like, if I’m going to unit idiosyncratic to beryllium a father.” She besides said she didn’t privation him to 1 time realized helium regretted having a kid with her.
Nikki is present married to her erstwhile Dancing with the Stars partner, Artem Chingvintsev. They person one kid together.
Elizabeth Huberdeau
Before Nikki, John had a fewer different relationships with those successful the wrestling community, including Mickie James — who helium dated successful 2007 — and Lisa Marie Varon, who helium concisely dated successful 2002. At the time, Lisa was connected a interruption from her hubby Lee Varon, to whom she was joined from 1994 until 2015. “One of those times that we separated, I dated John for astir a month. It was not successful 2006 oregon 2007. It was 2002. I was joined but separated. John was single,” she explained to F4WOnline.com (via Wrestling News Plus).
John was besides antecedently joined to Elizabeth Huberdeau. The erstwhile mates got engaged successful 2009 and walked down the aisle that summer. John and Elizabeth were notoriously backstage astir their narration and were seldom seen unneurotic implicit their three-year marriage. The exes divorced successful 2012.
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