With Sharelle Rosado being a central figure on Selling Tampa season 1, many viewers are curious to learn more about her fiancé Chad "Ochocinco" Johnson's long and successful career as a professional football player in the NFL. In four seasons of Selling Sunset, fans have gotten to know a few professional athletes from time to time. For instance, Heather Rae Young used to date a pro hockey player known as Nick Ebert back in season 1.
Chrishell Stause also worked with professional basketball player Thomas Bryant on Selling Sunset season 4, even though the time she spent with Shang-Chi lead Simu Liu attracted way more attention from the general public. Over the course of the show, viewers have also been keeping up with all the drama surrounding Amanza Smith's mysterious ex. As it turns out, her ex-husband is a pro football player called Ralph Brown. Now, Selling Tampa will add another prominent athlete to this overall franchise - and he's perhaps the most famous of them all.
Chad Johnson is better known as "Ochocinco" (which is the number 85 in Spanish) due to the fact that he's always worn jersey #85 while playing football. According to his official page on NFL.com, Chad Ochocinco played as a wide receiver for 10 years. He joined the Cincinnati Bengals in 2001 and stayed on the team until 2010. He then joined the New England Patriots in 2011 and stayed there for one season. After that experience ended, he joined the practice squad of the Miami Dolphins in 2012. Ochocinco then went international, playing for the Montreal Alouettes in 2014 and for the Monterrey Smelters in 2017. Now, the NFL star will be featured on Selling Tampa.
Chad Ochocinco's Instagram profile, @ochocinco, has 1.8 million followers as of this writing. Following his exposure on Netflix's Selling Tampa, his following might grow even more. Alas, this isn't Ochocinco's first experience with reality TV. In 2010, Ochocinco appeared as a contestant on Dancing With The Stars season 10 and made it all the way to the semifinals. That same year, VH1 launched an entire dating show for the NFL player called Ochocinco: The Ultimate Catch. Another fun fact about Ochocinco is that he portrayed Monica's love interest in her music video for the song "Everything To Me". The song and video (included below) were released in February 2010 as the lead single of Monica's album Still Standing.
Otherwise, Selling Tampa viewers would also benefit from knowing that Ochocinco has exercised his competitive side in many other different sports over the years. He had a career in soccer for some time, experimented with bull riding, and recently had a boxing fight with Brian Maxwell that preceded the Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Logan Paul TV event. On Twitch, Ochocinco is also a streamer who specializes in playing FIFA 21. Now, the NFL star will leave his mark on Netflix's Selling Tampa.
Sources: Chad Ochocinco/Instagram, NFL.com, Ochocinco/Twitch