JUDE BELLINGHAM fell one game short of capping a dream season with Euro 2024 glory.
The Real Madrid sensation, 21, is among the favourites to lift the Ballon d’Or after winning LaLiga and the Champions League last season.
And life is going pretty well off the field too, judging by model girlfriend Laura Celia Valk‘s latest snaps.
The Dutch beauty posed in a white bikini top and hotpants in the sunshine.
She showed off the ensemble by leaning in a doorway and also appeared engrossed in a book.
Bellingham will now look to turn the page on England’s heartbreaking defeat to Spain.
He may get a bit of banter from his Spanish team-mates before they set about defending their titles.
Laura, 25, is believed to have been dating Bellingham since April.
The pair have kept their romance low-key as they focus on their respective careers, but are said to be “smitten” with one another.
However, she has certainly not been shy in promoting her modelling.
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She was seen throughout the Euros and before wearing a number of jaw-dropping outfits.
And her latest set proved to be no different.
Several Wags from the England camp spent weeks out in Germany supporting the Three Lions.
But a noticeable absence was Bellingham’s new partner, Dutch model Laura Celia Valk with the couple keeping their relationship from the public.
Laura did not attend any matches or make any reference of Bellingham on social media.
Instead, she has been filling up her page with model snaps to her 500,000 Instagram followers.
The Sun were the first to reveal her relationship with Bellingham.
By Jon Boon
LAURA CELIA VALK is the stunning Dutch fashion model who has stolen Jude Bellingham’s heart.
The Sun exclusively revealed that she’s been staying at his place in Madrid and is completely smitten with him.
Laura boasts a huge social media following and regularly travels the world, enjoying a luxurious lifestyle.
From underwear modelling to showing off Pretty Little Thing’s latest wear, she regularly collaborates with fashion houses around the globe.
Wherever she is, Laura makes sure to drop into Chanel – her favourite designer.
She’s also quite the foodie, with pizza and strawberries being her favourites.
It won’t be long before we see her at the Bernabeu enjoying a prawn sandwich!
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And she was believed to be staying in his Madrid mansion earlier in the year.
Laura is not only a model for the likes of PrettyLittleThing but she is the owner of her own social media consultancy agency.
By Dave Kidd
JUDE BELLINGHAM turns 21 on Saturday as a champion of Europe, a champion of Spain and as the finest player at the world’s most famous club.
He’s a multi-millionaire, a Ballon d’Or contender and an underpants model — so let’s not play those violins too loudly.
But after two matches of intense frustration and virtual anonymity at the Euros, we’re entitled to ask: Where has it all, at least temporarily, gone wrong?
Bellingham’s career has been on an unerring upward trajectory since Birmingham City retired his shirt at the age of 17 and packed him off to Dortmund.
Last summer’s move to Real Madrid was an instant and extraordinary success.
Bellingham netted 23 goals in his debut season — including late winners against Barcelona in both of his first two Clasicos — on his way to winning LaLiga and then the Champions League.
And now this, the bizarre idea being floated that Gareth Southgate should consider dropping the best player England have had for at least half a century.
After the goalless draw with Slovenia, Southgate admitted that he is going to speak to Bellingham about the need to channel his frustrations.
During dismal back-to-back draws against Denmark and Slovenia, the Brummie Galactico has looked thoroughly piddled off with refereeing decisions, with team-mates, with tactics which clearly aren’t allowing him to flourish.
The crushing, unremitting tedium of watching this joyless England team play football is bad enough.
Imagine being as good as Bellingham and having to play for them.
To be shoved out on to the left wing — as Bellingham was for long periods in the goalless grind against Slovenia — to accommodate Phil Foden, who has rarely if ever dominated a game for England.
The result was another miserable let-down for England supporters, who have turned against Southgate in their droves during this tournament.
Only Southgate’s England can turn up in Cologne — the perfume capital of the world — and stink the place out.
England lack express pace, they lack attacking intent, they lack experience in central midfield and they lack left-footed defenders.
But they do have Bellingham — and Southgate needs to allow him to thrive pretty sharpish or they will be home either this weekend or next.
Then the search for a new England manager would begin.
Bellingham has frequently grabbed big matches by the scruff of the neck for his country — against Senegal in the knockout stage of the last World Cup, against Scotland at Hampden Park, against Italy at Wembley and in the Euros opener against Serbia.
This is a man with a proven track record of winning international football matches and yet somehow his place in the England team is being questioned.
Foden returned home for the birth of his third child but it is not yet known whether the Manchester City midfielder will return for Sunday’s last-16 clash in Gelsenkirchen.
But there has been a problem in accommodating Bellingham and Foden in the same team.
And while the City man is a wonderful player and the reigning Footballer of the Year, his England career has not been in the same league as Bellingham’s.
If you are going to build a team around anybody, it is Bellingham.
There is plenty to be positive about with England — as long as you haven’t actually watched any of their matches.
The Three Lions have won their group and have ended up in a favourable half of the draw away from all four of the tournament’s strongest teams.
But they can only progress from here if Bellingham takes the leading role, as he did so impressively in the first half against the Serbs.
His is too great a talent to waste.
