Dianna Russini to launch new weekly show on BetUS beginning Wednesday

Dianna Russini will debut a one-hour weekly show, The Russini Report, on BetUS TV's website and X account beginning Wednesday at 12 p.m. ET, the New York Post reported. She will also write a regular column for the online sportsbook and appear as a featured contributor on the "Nobody's Safe" podcast with host Jon Weiner, known as Stugotz, according to the same interview with People published Monday.

Russini resigned from The Athletic in April after Page Six published photos of her and New England Patriots head coach Mike Vrabel holding hands at a resort in Sedona, Arizona. The Athletic, owned by The New York Times, conducted a nearly five-month investigation and concluded in September that Russini was "noncompliant" with the company's standards, the New York Post said. Vrabel took a brief leave from the team around the 2026 NFL draft and told reporters in April, "I take accountability for my actions, and the actions that caused a distraction to the people that I care most about — my family, this football team, the organization and our fans. My previous actions don't meet the standard that I hold myself to. They don't."

During the hiatus Russini and her husband, Kevin Goldschmidt, a Shake Shack executive, deleted their X accounts and avoided coverage. "The lies became so out of control," Russini told People. "This was a runaway train, and there was nothing I could do to stop it." She described the period as "heartbreaking" and said it affected her 94-year-old grandmother and distant relatives. "Now that I've been in the center of this attention and understanding that this wasn't just something that shook me, it affected my 94-year-old grandmother, my cousins, family members I haven't even spoken to in years," she said.

Russini said NFL owners, agents, general managers, head coaches and players, including "star quarterbacks," contacted her almost daily while she was not working. "The absolute best part of this situation has been the loyalty the NFL has shown me," she said. "They checked in with me almost daily while I wasn't working to make sure that I was staying connected to football, to check on me as a person and to just see how I was doing." She added that players texted and called her saying, "Get back to work, it's time."

Of her new role Russini said, "Football has always been my favorite sport to cover, and I've really missed being in the middle of the action, breaking stories and connecting fans to what's happening across the league," according to Bleacher Report. She told People the experience changed her approach: "The way I'm going to approach stories is going to be very different now. I have an understanding and an empathy that I didn't have before."