{"id":332306,"date":"2025-12-23T22:59:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332306\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T22:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T22:59:14","slug":"martha-stewart-joins-snoop-dogg-and-luka-modric-as-swansea-city-co-owner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/332306\/","title":{"rendered":"Martha Stewart joins Snoop Dogg and Luka Modric as Swansea City co-owner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">American billionaire Martha Stewart has become the latest celebrity to join Swansea City as a co-owner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Stewart has followed close friend Snoop Dogg and AC Milan playmaker Luka Modric in becoming a minority owner of the South Wales football club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 84-year-old was in attendance as the Swans beat Wrexham 2-1 last Friday, having been invited to the game as a guest of the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The businesswoman built her wealth in the homemaking and lifestyle industry, becoming the USA&#8217;s first self-made female billionaire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Swansea&#8217;s owners have previously made it clear that they want to raise the club&#8217;s profile in an attempt to generate greater revenue, which will then allow them to invest more money in the team under profit and sustainability rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A statement from the club on behalf of the ownership group said:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are delighted to confirm Martha, who has built a long and successful career as America&#8217;s leading homemaking and lifestyle expert, has followed Snoop and Luka Modric in becoming a minority owner of our football club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very excited to welcome Martha on board, and we know experiencing Friday night&#8217;s game in-person has only increased her own enthusiasm and anticipation for being part of Swansea City.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American billionaire Martha Stewart has become the latest celebrity to join Swansea City as a co-owner. Stewart has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-332306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}