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Manti Te’o appears to be slowly but surely getting over the girlfriend hoax story that rocked his life … ’cause he just poked fun at the situation during one of his first appearances at his new NFL Network job — and it was hilarious!!
Te’o — who officially joined the NFL Network this week — made the funny while appearing on Friday’s edition of “Good Morning Football.”
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One of the segments on the show required him to answer some trivia questions about his alma mater — the University of Notre Dame — and when he began to struggle to come up with correct responses, he dropped a zinger about not Googling himself that had the whole room laughing.
If you somehow forgot … back in 2013, it was revealed Te’o got duped into a relationship with who he thought was a woman named “Lennay Kekua.”
Kekua, of course, turned out to be a Te’o family acquaintance — Ronaiah Tuiasosopo, and when it all got revealed to the public, the former linebacker called it “painful and humiliating.”
While it’s easy to imagine the subject is still a sore spot for the eight-year NFL vet … he’s clearly able to have some fun with it now — as he laughed it up with his co-hosts Akbar Gbaja-Biamila, Kyle Brandt and Jamie Erdahl.
Te’o has foundlovesince the Kekua ordeal went down … he married his wife, Jovi Nicole Engbino, back in 2020.