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Rio posted from the Algarve sipping on Portuguese beer.<\/p>\n
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Posting on X, Rio shared a snap of him taking a sip of Super Bock beer in front of their home in the Algarve, Portugal.<\/p>\n
He wrote in the caption: \u201cThat feeling when Liverpool + Chelsea drop points in\u00a0the race for the top 4!<\/p>\n
\u201cHappy Saturday People!\u201d<\/p>\n
It came after Liverpool lost 2-1 to Brighton while Chelsea were beaten 3-0 away at Everton.<\/p>\n
Kate is yet to address the change of location on her social media. Her most recent post is a clip from her Blended podcast.<\/p>\n
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Rio and Kate moved to the UAE last year.<\/p>\n
Picture:
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Previously, Rio has spoken fondly of his life in Dubai and told LBC why he moved to the Gulf.<\/p>\n
Speaking to LBC’s Tom Swarbrick shortly after his family’s move, Rio said his relocation came down to the tax policies in Britain and poor quality of public services.<\/p>\n
He said he loves his country but questioned the high rate of taxes which have been brought about in recent years.<\/p>\n
Rio told Tom if services such as the NHS were “working perfectly well” then people “don’t mind” paying tax.<\/p>\n
“But when there’s things that are falling apart and going wrong in the country, then I sit there and go, we pay towards tax and is it really going towards the things that are actually benefiting the people that live here?” Ferdinand said.<\/p>\n
“And that’s the big question that needs answering. I think a lot of us know the answer to that,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rio shared a snap of him taking a sip of Super Bock beer in front his villa in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-492761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492761","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=492761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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