ESPN NFL analyst and “The Pivot” podcast host Ryan Clark recently came to the defense of our own Jonathan Owens. Owens received significant social media backlash for claiming not to know who Simone Biles was.
“I always say that the men are the catch,” said the St. Louis native who is married to the most decorated gymnast of all time with an estimated $16 million value as of August 2023.
The couple matched on a dating app about three years ago.
“I’m like, ‘Lemme see who this is.’ I never really paid attention to gymnastics, so it piqued my curiosity,” Owens said. “The first thing I saw was that she just had a bunch of [Instagram] followers. So in my mind, I’m like, ‘OK, she’s gotta be good.'”
“Everyone is now twisting and taking that and then making it something negative,” Clark said in response to numerous mocking posts about Owens.
“He was telling the story about how he met his wife Simone on our show. She was also there. He told the story with so much love in their eyes and every time they looked at one another, you could tell how beautiful it was to them.”
