Exclusive photos appear to show Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini holding hands and hugging at a luxury hotel in Sedona, Arizona, in a weekend encounter that moved from breakfast to the pool to a private rooftop as the sun went down. The pictures, published by Page Six, place the pair at the Ambiente on Saturday, March 28.
A Page Six source said Vrabel and Russini had breakfast on the patio of the hotel restaurant around 10:30 a.m., then spent about an hour together at the pool and in a hot tub. Later that evening, they were seen again on the private rooftop of one of the hotel’s bungalows, with photos showing them hugging at sunset and weaving their fingers together while standing face-to-face.
The details matter because the pair were not just passing through the same resort. A source close to Russini said she was staying at the hotel during a hiking trip with two female friends. A friend of Vrabel told Page Six that he and another friend drove up to Sedona for the day and later drove back to their own hotel about two hours away. Three other eyewitnesses told Page Six they did not see anyone else with Vrabel and Russini.
Vrabel had been in Arizona the day before for a scouting event at Arizona State University in Tempe on Friday, March 27. After being seen with Russini, he went to the Biltmore hotel in Phoenix for an NFL Competition Committee meeting. Russini was among NFL reporters at the Biltmore on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday of the following week when media had access to owners, executives and coaches, and The Athletic published a dispatch about the meetings written by Russini and Jacob Robinson on Thursday.
That timeline keeps the story from being just a social snapshot. Russini joined The Athletic in 2023 after a run as an SportsCenter anchor, and she is now the outlet’s senior NFL insider. Vrabel took over as the New England Patriots’ top coach in January 2025 after spending eight seasons as a linebacker for the team. Both are described as married to other people, and the resort where they were seen is an adults-only boutique property marketed as a romantic getaway.
For now, the photos are the most concrete part of the story: a coach and a reporter, at the same hotel, over the same weekend, captured in public holding hands and embracing. What those images mean beyond that is left to the people who were there, but the sequence from Sedona to Phoenix shows the encounter landed squarely inside the orbit of the NFL’s spring calendar.
