'Especially meaningful': supermodel's hockey hard launch

Bella Hadid appears to have made it Instagram official. The supermodel, 30, shared a carousel of loved-up photos from a Colorado Avalanche game, and the man beside her has been identified as Nathan Lacy, the Colorado cowboy she has been linked to for months.

In one shot Hadid makes a kissy face while Lacy bites her chin, according to People. In others the pair cuddle up together watching the game against the glass.

She didn't tag him or name him, but E! News and People both say it's Lacy, the man Deux Moi first spotted her with in September.

"Let's go Avs!!!!!!" Hadid began the post on Nov. 9, two nights after the Avalanche beat the Detroit Red Wings 4-0 at Denver's Ball Arena. "Saturday night was especially meaningful."

Colorado girl at heart

It was Hockey Fights Cancer night, a joint initiative from the NHL and the players' association, and most of her long caption was about the cause and the game.

"I've always loved hockey living in NYC. And being a Colorado girl at heart, growing up here since i was young, I guess it was only a matter of time before I found my way to the @coloradoavalanche," she wrote.

The team was thrilled to have her. The Avalanche posted its own video of Hadid in the stands, captioned: "Here supporting a great cause and attending her first game as the newest member of Avs Faithful! Welcome, Bella Hadid!"

In that clip, People reports, Lacy can be seen with his hand on her leg as she cheers and poses from her seat.

She wore a jersey for the occasion and debuted a new platinum blonde hair colour, People noted.

Who is Nathan Lacy?

E! News describes Lacy as a Colorado-based construction worker, while People calls him a cowboy who works on his family's ranch.

The pair first sparked rumours in September, when Deux Moi shared photos of them on a grocery run in Crested Butte, Colorado, carrying paper bags of food out of the store.

Deux Moi later reported that an eyewitness saw them leave the store together and get into a Lacy Ranch truck.

The hard launch comes less than a year after her split from cowboy Adan Banuelos, whom she dated for two years, was confirmed in January, E! reports. That romance only went public on her grid in a February 2024 photo dump.

Hadid usually keeps her love life private, People notes. Before Banuelos she dated creative director Marc Kalman and musician The Weeknd.

Hadid has said she's ready for the next chapter. "Family is on my mind," she told British Vogue last year. "I can't wait to be a mom."

She has still not named Lacy publicly. For now, the Avs have a new fan, and so, it seems, does he.