{"id":280056,"date":"2026-02-12T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280056\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T07:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T07:25:07","slug":"all-black-damian-mckenzie-and-georgia-osullivan-welcome-baby-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/280056\/","title":{"rendered":"All Black Damian McKenzie and Georgia O\u2019Sullivan welcome baby boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

O\u2019Sullivan and McKenzie first confirmed their relationship<\/a> through an Instagram post in 2024, which O\u2019Sullivan captioned \u201ca decade later\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier last year, McKenzie purchased a property south of Hamilton. He is understood to have officially taken ownership in May<\/a>, with O\u2019Sullivan believed to have moved into the house in June.<\/p>\n

McKenzie was born in Invercargill, but he moved to Hamilton for rugby.<\/p>\n

He made his provincial rugby debut for Waikato in 2014 and debuted for the Chiefs in 2015 and the All Blacks in 2016.<\/p>\n

While playing rugby, McKenzie attended the University of Waikato, studying for a Bachelor of Communications<\/a>.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan is the daughter of horse racing power couple Lance and Bridgette O\u2019Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Georgia has studied for a Bachelor of Commerce, majoring in Marketing and Business Management, at Victoria University of Wellington.<\/p>\n

She and her sister Caitlin recently started their own marketing and social media agency called O\u2019Sullivans.<\/p>\n

The Chiefs\u2019 first game of the season will be against the Blues at Auckland\u2019s Eden Park on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Their first 2026 home game is on February 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"O\u2019Sullivan and McKenzie first confirmed their relationship through an Instagram post in 2024, which O\u2019Sullivan captioned \u201ca decade…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":280057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5263,95,6794,7022,15117,2511,69827,1888,13742,305,57098,61340,111,139,69,69828,213,165,1845,1849],"class_list":["post-280056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-all","tag-and","tag-baby","tag-black","tag-boy","tag-child","tag-damian","tag-first","tag-georgia","tag-have","tag-marketer","tag-mckenzie","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-osullivan","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-welcome","tag-welcomed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/280057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}