Jude Bellingham is 23, and the Real Madrid midfielder’s off-pitch profile has become harder to keep out of view as he has been photographed more often with Ashlyn Castro since early 2025. The pair have not spoken publicly about their relationship, but the stream of sightings has kept one of football’s most watched players in the conversation beyond the pitch.
That is why searches for How old is Jude Bellingham are landing now: the answer is 23, but the interest is tied to a relationship that has moved from rumor to repeated public appearances. Bellingham joined Real Madrid in 2023 at 19, scored in each of his first four competitive appearances and went on to win La Liga and the Champions League in his debut season, a run that made him one of the sport’s most recognizable names.
Castro, who was born in California in 1997 and has more than 727,000 Instagram followers, has become the most visible figure in that story. She was first photographed with Bellingham in January 2025 in Madrid after a Champions League match against RB Salzburg, later seen in a private box with members of his family during a Real Madrid match against Girona, and then appeared with him at the Madrid Open in April. Last summer, the two vacationed on a $1.3 million superyacht off the coast of Sardinia while he recovered from shoulder surgery.
The interest around Castro also comes with a public paper trail of her own. She appeared during a party scene in DJ Khaled and Drake’s 2021 music video Popstar, was linked to Michael B. Jordan in 2018 and later dated Terance Mann. Mann tried to cool speculation in a TikTok live session, saying Castro was “cool” and that they had not been together for a long, long time.
More recently, Castro was photographed at the 2026 World Cup starting at England’s opening match against Croatia in Dallas and was later spotted in the stands at several of England’s other matches, including the July 1 victory over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For now, the picture is clear enough: Bellingham is 23, Castro is six years older, and whatever is happening between them is being shown in public more often than either has chosen to explain.
