While bombshell girlfriend Camille Kostek was preparing to turn heads on the runway at Miami Swim Week, Rob Gronkowski was enjoying a much more low-key start to the weekend in the Florida sunshine, exclusive Daily Mail photos show.
The retired NFL star was seen lounging on Miami Beach with a friend on Friday, strolling barefoot across the sand and sipping from a bottle as he soaked up the warm and sunny weather at the private beach area of the 5-star W South Beach hotel.
Though the scene may have raised a few eyebrows due to Miami’s strict laws banning alcohol consumption on public beaches, Gronk wasn’t breaking any rules.
The four-time Super Bowl winner was instead enjoying a bottle of Zentii – a non-alcoholic botanical drink marketed as a ‘feel-good’, wellness beverage.
Gronk, 37, who played nine seasons with the New England Patriots before following teammate Tom Brady for another two with Tampa Bay Buccaneers, wasn’t that far from home. Or at least one of them.
He’s had a stunning five-bedroom, six-bathroom oceanfront penthouse in South Beach since 2019 to add to his property portfolio in the northeast, which includes a two-house compound near the Patriots Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
NFL legend Rob Gronkowski was spotted enjoying the hot and sunny weather with a pal as he kicked off Swim Week in Miami on Friday
The 37-year-old was snapped sipping from a bottle of non-alcoholic botanical drink Zentii as he strolled across the sand
The former tight end turned Fox NFL studio analyst looked beach-ready in blue floral swimming trunks, a white t-shirt, cap, and his sneakers in hand as he and a friend made their way across the sand to the rows of sun loungers.
At one point, the 37-year-old smiled and held his bottle proudly aloft as he trudged with the pal, who was also enjoying the beverage.
Gronk then removed his t-shirt and made himself comfortable on a lounge chair to work on his tan, occasionally chatting with his friend while scrolling on his phone.
At one point he was seen briefly chatting with a bikini-clad blonde who was sunbathing nearby.
The football legend was in town for 2026 ‘Miami Swim Week’, where his longtime girlfriend, Camille Kostek, was gearing up to walk in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway show the following day.
Kostek, 34, sizzled as she showed off her stunning physique alongside beauty influencer Alix Earle, supermodel Molly Sims, Brooks Nader, among others, at the star-studded event which featured a live performance by Grammy-winning singer Lizzo.
Kostek and Gronkowski began dating in 2013 while she was a Patriots cheerleader but kept their relationship under wraps for two years due to the franchise’s strict rules prohibiting players from getting romantically involved with the dancers.
At one point Gronk was seen briefly chatting with a bikini-clad blonde who was sunbathing nearby
The four-time Super Bowl champ made himself comfortable on a lounge chair to soak up some sun in the private beach area of the W South Beach hotel
The two friends kicked back on the sand and chatted as they sipped on their wellness beverages
Gronk was in town this weekend for his longtime model girlfriend Camille Kostek’s runway appearance at the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Runway Show during Miami Swim Week
The two were at a Patriots Thanksgiving event when Gronk wrote his phone number on the back of a name sticker before discreetly passing it to her.
The pair have since moved in together and currently split their time between Foxborough and Tampa.
The Florida property means the couple is not too far from Gronk’s close friend and former teammate Tom Brady, who still owns the $150 million estate on Miami’s Indian Creek Island he bought with now ex-wife Gisele Bundchen.
In a recent interview with People, Kostek revealed the teammates’ on-field success laid the foundation to a friendship that exists to this day and one that hasn’t matured too much with time passing by.
‘Tom and Rob are forever the GOATs,’ she told the magazine. ‘The two of them on the field are a power duo and the two of them off the field are just boys.
‘They’re just boys. Honestly, when they spend time and they just throw the ball together, I’m not going with Rob to Tom’s house. I see them on FaceTime calls. I hear them talk on the phone. They’re so funny.
Zentii, Gronk’s drink of choice on Friday, is a wellness drink containing botanical extracts that its makers say encourage calm and relaxation
The retired football star later covered back up with his t-shirt and appeared engrossed in his phone
‘They love to laugh. It’s so cool to see the buttoned up versions of them that do press conferences… but then to see the relaxed Tom and Rob.’
She said the duo would be ‘forever the GOATs. I think that they really, really are a dynamic duo that will be remembered for the rest of time’.
Gronk and seven-time Super Bowl winner Brady, 48, famously still cross paths on Fox NFL Sunday, swapping pre-game banter in the respective roles of studio analyst and in-game analyst.
But the beach-loving former player isn’t only famed for his skills on the field and buddy time with Brady.
In his 2015 book It’s Good to be Gronk, he revealed he hadn’t touched any of his NFL contract salary.
‘To this day, I still haven’t touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money,’ he wrote.
The blonde bombshell showed off her stunning physique in a shimmery gold bikini and cover up
Gronk and Kostek, pictured on Thursday, began dating since 2013 – when she was a cheerleader for the Patriots and he was a tight end
‘I live off my marketing money and haven’t blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.’
And on a Bussin’ with the Boys podcast last year, he intimated that might still be the case, saying it was ‘technically true’ to this day.
Gronk, who netted $70 million from his NFL salaries, admitted he was ‘very frugal’.
He admitted: ‘I didn’t know how long the NFL was going to last.
‘I just always wanted to save it and use my money I was getting off the field to spend on whatever I needed to spend it on.
‘Technically, I have not spent any of my NFL money.’
Gronk boosted his fortune with his comeback seasons in Tampa, netting a total of $17 million in salary and bonuses while winning the Super Bowl with Brady in 2021.
