Celebrity News

Cristiano Ronaldo and gal pal Irina Shayk in gem shuffle

Soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo appears in a new campaign for Jacob Arabo’s jewelry brand Jacob & Co. — but the jeweler couldn’t get Ronaldo’s swimsuit model girlfriend Irina Shayk to appear alongside her beau. We hear Shayk was in talks with the jeweler to also appear in the ad with Ronaldo, but scheduling conflicts prevented her from participating. A new print campaign will show Ronaldo, the Portugese soccer stud who plays for Real Madrid, wearing a Ghost Watch that displays 20 different time zones on its face. (Perhaps it’s a necessary accoutrement for jet-setting soccer stars?) Behind the scenes, Jacob & Co. has also hired as its new CEO Chris Del Gatto — the former head of jewelry resaler CIRCA, who left last year under mysterious circumstances. De Gatto and his longtime girlfriend Veronica Webb (whom Del Gatto had hired as CIRCA’s director of special projects) both abruptly left the company after they’d become fixtures on the social and Hamptons polo circuit, and they’ve been keeping a much lower profile ever since. Del Gatto joined Jacob & Co. April 1.