After Tom Brady announced that his dog Junie is a clone of his pit bull mix Lua who died in 2023, there’s renewed debate over the morality of the controversial cutting-edge tech. NBC’s Emilie Ikeda reports in this week’s Sunday Focus.

Tom Brady recently revealed his new dog, Junie, is a clone of his late pit-bull mix Lua, who died in 2023. Brady said Colossal Biosciences used a non-invasive blood draw taken days before Lua’s death to create a genetic duplicate.

Brady, 48, secured minority ownership in the Las Vegas Raiders and Las Vegas Aces in 2023, merged his personal health brand with NoBull in 2024 and also signed on to be the face of Fox's NFL coverage with a 10-year deal worth $375 million.

Fox News host Jimmy Failla and the panel weigh in on NFL star Tom Brady’s cloning of his family dog on ‘Fox News Saturday Night.’

NFL fans think Drake Maye is actually Tom Brady's cloned son because of a viral fake post originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. Drake Maye is the face of the New England Patriots. And some people on the Internet are amused by the possible origin of that face.

A rumor circulating online in early November 2025 claimed that retired football star Tom Brady made a statement in which he admitted to cloning his dog before she died using the company Colossal Biosciences.

"After Lua — whom the retired quarterback shared with ex-wife Gisele Bündchen and their children — died in December 2023, he welcomed another, similar-looking dog, Junie. Nearly two years later, Brady has revealed that Junie is a clone of the late pit bull mix.

Instead, it was Matt Cassel directing a 30-21 Patriots win over Mike Nolan’s 49ers on Oct. 5, 2008. The next time the San Mateo product got a shot at beating the 49ers in Bay Area, they’d moved 39 miles south to Levi’s Stadium.