Dianna Russini and her husband, Kevin Goldschmidt are in the spotlight amid her controversy with Mike Vrabel.
Dianna Russini, a senior NFL insider for The Athletic, is currently at the centre of a significant controversy following the release of Page Six's exclusive photos of her on April 7, 2026. The photos show Dianna, 43 and 50-year-old, New England Patriots head coach, Mike Vrabel, together at a luxury resort in Sedona, Arizona. They were seen holding hands, hugging, and lounging together in a hot tub at the Ambiente resort on March 28, 2026. The duo has denied any romantic involvement and maintained that they were friends.
Sources close to Dianne and Mike claim they were visiting the resort with separate groups of friends and happened to be hanging out together. She refuted the insinuations shortly after the story broke. But some hotel guests told Page Six that they did not see anyone else with the duo during several sightings throughout the day. Images of their PDA directed criticism towards them, as both are married individuals and hold certain responsibilities as public figures. The incident sparked curiosity regarding who Dianna was married to. Here's everything we know about her husband, Kevin Goldschmidt.
Kevin Goldschmidt is a corporate executive based in New York, best known as the husband of NFL reporter Dianna Russini. Born in Pennsylvania on June 6, 1985, he is 40 years old as of April 2026, which makes him about 3 years younger than Dianne. Despite being married to a popular broadcast journalist, he has largely maintained a low profile. Regarding Kevin's profession, according to his LinkedIn profile, he has been associated with the New York-based hospitality company, Shake Shack, for 6.7 years, serving as the Vice President of Total Rewards and HR Technology.
Kevin progressed from Senior Manager to Director, and eventually to his current Vice President role in February 2025. Before joining Shake Shack, he held executive compensation roles at AmerisourceBergen and Aramark. As for his academic background, Kevin Goldschmidt graduated from Penn State University in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science in Finance. Even though he belongs to a very different field from his wife, Dianna Russini, they reportedly understand each other and support each other's professional endeavours.
Dianna Russini and Kevin Goldschmidt reportedly began dating in 2015, though they kept their relationship out of the public eye for several years. The public only became aware of their relationship once they announced their engagement. The couple met and fell in love in 2015 and managed to date secretly for five years (till 2020), despite Dianna being a prominent figure in the reporting community. At that time, Dianne was working as an NFL Insider and reporter for ESPN. She was a regular on SportsCenter, NFL Live, Sunday NFL Countdown, and Get Up.
Dianna Russini announced her engagement to Kevin Goldschmidt in July 2020 via a social media post. The announcement was the first time the couple publicly acknowledged their relationship after five years of secret dating. Following their engagement, they married later that same year, on September 26, 2020, in an intimate ceremony during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the wedding took place amid such a global crisis, it was an intimate, socially distanced ceremony.
Dianne called her wedding day as the "best day of my [her] life," and shared that while their family was present in person, they also celebrated in front of dozens of friends virtually over Zoom. On their two-year anniversary, she posted a throwback picture from their wedding, captioing it as:
"2 years today was the best day of my life — when I married Kev in front of our family and dozens of friends over zoom! it's you and only you, for me, forever."
Dianne and Kevin stepped into the new phase of parenthood within a year of marriage. Their family was completed with the birth of their children. The couple are parents to two sons; they welcomed their first child, Michael Andrew Goldschmidt on August 8, 2021. After one year, Dianne and Kevin became parents for the second time in October 2022 when their second son, Joseph 'Joey' Kevin Goldschmidt was born. She wrote in an Instagram post after the birth of her second child that she felt "beyond lucky and blessed." She also humorously stated that having two young sons just a year apart was like "having twins." During her February 2026 appearance on the Dan Patrick Show, Dianne jokingly said:
"I want to feel young again. These kids have worn me down... I've aged 15 years in a span of four years."
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