{"id":784530,"date":"2026-07-07T09:46:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784530\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T09:46:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T09:46:13","slug":"jai-arrow-secretly-ties-the-knot-with-longtime-partner-amid-mnd-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/784530\/","title":{"rendered":"Jai Arrow secretly ties the knot with longtime partner amid MND battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cAn extra special thank you to our family friends The Beath\u2019s for witnessing our special day and watching our little angel.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Jai Arrow and his partner Berina have married each other months after revealing his MND diagnosis. Photo \/ @bericolakovic\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Jai Arrow and his partner Berina have married each other months after revealing his MND diagnosis. Photo \/ @bericolakovic<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI am in awe of how amazing people are thank you to Maddi, Lucy, Jazz, and everyone who gave their time to make this elopement a very extra special one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Jai, 30, ended his professional rugby league career in May after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby-league\/nrl\/nrl-queensland-and-south-sydney-forward-jai-arrow-ends-nrl-career-after-mnd-diagnosis\/4OLLKNZJBRGJZI3MHFEM3YMS5E\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby-league\/nrl\/nrl-queensland-and-south-sydney-forward-jai-arrow-ends-nrl-career-after-mnd-diagnosis\/4OLLKNZJBRGJZI3MHFEM3YMS5E\/\">revealed he had gone through months of testing and treatment for MND<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">He has since received a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby-league\/nrl\/jai-arrow-warriors-lock-erin-clark-sick-to-his-stomach-after-learning-of-former-teammates-mnd-diagnosis\/7JP6DBY2NJBURAXKWCGLQZANOM\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/sport\/rugby-league\/nrl\/jai-arrow-warriors-lock-erin-clark-sick-to-his-stomach-after-learning-of-former-teammates-mnd-diagnosis\/7JP6DBY2NJBURAXKWCGLQZANOM\/\">swell of support<\/a> from the NRL community, including the competition announcing it will throw him the \u201cworld\u2019s biggest birthday party\u201d on July 12 as the main event of a series of fundraisers to support him as he navigates the disease. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Last month, Jai rung the South Sydney legacy bell before his former clubs the Rabbitohs and Broncos played in a fundraiser match. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">South Sydney wore all-white jerseys with \u201cArrow\u201d printed on the back, while Brisbane\u2019s had his heritage number \u201c222\u2033 stitched in. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Jai, Berina and their daughter Ayla were also seen at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/australian-couple-donate-48m-to-mnd-charity-weeks-after-jai-arrow-diagnosis\/UDUXAIZXJVH6NCTJS7MXCOFVMQ\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/world\/australian-couple-donate-48m-to-mnd-charity-weeks-after-jai-arrow-diagnosis\/UDUXAIZXJVH6NCTJS7MXCOFVMQ\/\">AFL\u2019s Big Freeze event<\/a>, which helps to raise money for the FightMND charity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"lSGAPBQwEUcIMo\" style=\"display:none\">Arrow played 178 NRL games after his 2016 debut and represented Queensland 12 times in State of Origin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cAn extra special thank you to our family friends The Beath\u2019s for witnessing our special day and watching&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[9490,13652,32613,104754,64,63,13815,346337,447,2673,8112,134,21694,61598,4664,134983,178572,100758,9051,806,302339,8853,15624,145711,320,363003,3605],"class_list":["post-784530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-after","tag-amid","tag-announced","tag-arrow","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-battle","tag-berina","tag-celebrities","tag-diagnosis","tag-disease","tag-entertainment","tag-former","tag-jai","tag-knot","tag-longtime","tag-married","tag-mnd","tag-months","tag-motor","tag-neurone","tag-partner","tag-player","tag-secretly","tag-the","tag-ties","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}