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Mark Wahlberghas found a new gym buddy.
The two-time Academy Award nominee, 50, worked out with his 18-year-old daughterElla Rae’s boyfriend in a shortcliphe posted Friday to Instagram. “Ella is a lucky girl and I’m a lucky dad! He is a great young man,” he captioned the post.
“I used to work out to keep the boys away from my girls, and now I’m working out with the boyfriend. Imagine that,” Mark mused in the video while wearing matching T-shirts.
Mark opened up about parenting a then-14-year-old Ellawhen she first started dating. “It’s inevitable — at some point, it’s gonna happen,” he said onLive with Kelly and Ryanin 2017. “I wanna know who she’s gonna be hanging out with, what his parents are like, all that stuff.”
When asked if a potential boyfriend “would be terrified” of him, theUnchartedactor admitted, “I would think so.”
He also spoke to PEOPLE about the familial friction that comes withraising a teenage girl. “It’s tough, but people say that they pass through it and they come back to you,” he said in 2018.
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“She wants to go be off and doing her thing,” Mark added. “[There’s] a lot of attitude, a lot of aggression, a lot of, ‘You’re the worst, you ruin everything!’ "
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Markcelebrated Ella’s 18th birthdayon Sept. 2, which is a bittersweet date, as she was born the same day his sister Debbie Wahlberg died of a heart attack. “Happy B day my Ella 18 years old wow how time flies. So proud of you!! Always A bittersweet day. Missing my big sister Debbie, Ella’s Guardian angel,” he wrote.
TheInfiniteactor and wifeRhea Durham, 43, share Ella, as well as sonsMichael, 15,Brendan, 13, and 11-year-old daughterGrace Margaret.
source: people.com
