Shaquille O’Neal has reportedly footed the invoice for all prospects in a New York Metropolis restaurant the place he had been on a date.
The previous Los Angeles Lakers star was on a date with an unidentified lady on the Jue Lan Membership, a well-liked Chinese language restaurant that seats as much as 275 diners.
O’Neal, 50, reportedly shelled out greater than US$25,000 (£20,686) to pay for the complete restaurant, through which there have been 40 tables seated, and left an “extraordinarily beneficiant” tip for the workers.
Web page Six quoted a supply as saying that the lady O’Neal was eating with described the ex-basketballer as “my date” and “did all of the ordering”.
The supply added: “And to prime that off, he paid for everybody’s verify [who was] eating on the restaurant.
“He left [staff] the largest tip they’ve ever acquired.”
O’Neal is alleged to have requested the restaurant to maintain his gesture a secret from the opposite diners and to not point out that he had paid the invoice till he left the restaurant.
The seven-foot-tall sports activities analyst was beforehand romantically linked to Empire actor Annie Ilonzeh.
From 2002 to 2011, he was married to tv character Shaunie O’Neal, who remarried earlier this 12 months to a pastor. They share 4 kids collectively.
In April, O’Neal mentioned he was responsible for the divorce, including that Shaunie had been “superior” all through their marriage.
“I used to be unhealthy. She was superior. She actually was. It was all me,” he informed The Pivot Podcast.
Whereas he didn’t elaborate on what he did mistaken, he admitted that he “wasn’t defending her and defending these vows”.
“Generally whenever you dwell that double life, you get caught up. I’m not going to say it was her. It was all me.”
O’Neal additionally opened up about feeling lonely and “misplaced” after the divorce and mentioned: “76,000-square foot home by your self, misplaced. No children, go to the health club, no one’s taking part in within the health club. You go to their room, no one’s there. You begin to really feel it.”
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