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Entertainment

Marissa Ayers Posts Sweet Vlog Recapping Time With Giants QB Jaxson Dart

Maravi Post Reporter

Influencer Marissa Ayers is giving her followers an inside look at her personal life with New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart.

In a Wednesday, January 28, TikTok video, Ayers showcased her romantic final months of 2025 — spent with Dart — saying she’s “the happiest girl in the world.”

“I have been totally off grid but feeling like the happiest girl in the world @Jdart

Dart, 22, commented in response, “Every moment with you🩷”

Jaxson Dart Appears to Launch Relationship With Ring Girl Marissa Ayers

The PDA-filled video showed the couple seemingly living their best lives together in New York City, taking in a Broadway show, countless date nights and celebrating Christmas in the city with the Radio City Rockettes and the famous Rockefeller Christmas tree.

The video also shows Ayers, 22, traveling across the country with Dart — both for pleasure and to watch him play in the NFL. According to the video, her first game was the Giants vs. New England Patriots game in Boston on December 1.

The couple also traveled to Utah, where they went hiking and sledding, and even took a tour of the iconic East High School in Salt Lake City, made famous by the classic Disney movie High School Musical.

Ayers also showcased their home life, sharing videos of Dart making home-cooked meals for her, and even said in the video that he made her try her first oyster.

Who Is Marissa Ayers 5 Things to Know Giants QB Jaxson Darts Girlfriend
Jaxson Dart and Marissa Ayers Courtesy of Marissa Ayers/Instagram

The video was showered with positive comments, both from Ayers’ followers and Giants fans who made their way into the comment section.

“Make sure he stays healthy and safe during the off season please!” pleaded one Giants fan in the comments.

“Literally you two,” said one of Ayers’ followers, along with a picture of Barbie kissing Ken.

“I’m just so happy for her bye,” commented another follower.

The video confirms that the couple has been together since at least October 2025, though they just recently went public with their relationship on January 9, via an Instagram post from Ayers.

“Rumor has it… @jaxsondart,” Ayers captioned the post, a nod to the long-standing rumors that the two are an item.

The rumors of the two being together gained traction after a December 19 TikTok post by Ayers showed her wearing a Giants T-shirt. Fans on the internet quickly determined that the photo was taken at Dart’s apartment.

Who Is Marissa Ayers? 5 Things to Know Giants QB Jaxson Dart’s Girlfriend

Two weeks before, Ayers was spotted on the field at the Giants’ Monday Night Football game against the Patriots alongside Dart’s mom, Kara. That game, as followers learned from her recent TikTok, was the first Giants game that Ayers attended.

Ayers, who has amassed 1.6 million followers on TikTok, also serves as a ring girl for many marquee matches, including the Jake Paul vs. Anthony Joshua fight on Netflix in December 2025.

She started her role as a ring girl in May 2025 for the Paul vs. Nakisa Bidarian fight, then in July 2025 served as the ring girl at Madison Square Garden at the Katie Taylor vs. Amanda Serrano match.

“What a gift is was to witness history from the inside,” she wrote via Instagram after the fight. “The crowd, energy, all of the powerful women. And the little girl inside of me who is screaming to have stood in that kind of spotlight. Filled with gratitude, Madison Square Garden you were pure magic. ✨”

Entertainment

Why Jinger Duggar Hasn’t Spent Christmas With Her Family in 9 Years

Maravi Post Reporter

Jinger Duggar will be celebrating Christmas with her family for the first time in nearly a decade.

“We have not been back to the Duggar house since we’ve been married in nine years for Christmas,” Duggar’s husband, Jeremy Vuolo, began the Monday, December 22, episode of their eponymous podcast. “We’re going this year.”

Duggar, 32, and Vuolo, 38, have been married since 2016, welcoming kids Felicity, Evangeline and Finn in 2018, 2020, and 2025, respectively. While Duggar grew up in Arkansas, she moved to California after getting married.

“It’s exciting,” the Counting On alum said on Monday of celebrating the holiday in her home state. “The reason we haven’t been back for Christmas Day is because that’s the only time of year that [Jeremy’s] family is all together.”

Jinger Duggar Says Returning to Family’s ‘Big House’ Feels ‘Strange’

Jinger, one of Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar’s 19 children, and her husband have opted to spend the winter holiday with his side of the family.

“Throughout the years, we’ve decided, ‘Like, OK, that’s going to be the time that we spend with the Vuolo family over Christmas,” Jinger explained. “My family [is] always together a lot, and so it’s easy for us to pop back. We [recently] went back three times in one year for weddings.”

After many years spending Christmas away from home, Jinger started feeling “nostalgic” for her childhood Christmas festivities. (As Jinger and Vuolo moved away from Arkansas, they also distanced themselves from her parents’ IBLP form of religion.)

“I want our girls to experience a Duggar family Christmas, and I miss it,” Jinger said, detailing the chaos of the holiday season. “We’ve done different kinds of things. Back when I [lived] at the Big House, there were some years where we’d be, like, ‘Everybody has to wait, we go down together and then it’s a free-for-all and everyone just opens gifts.’”

Jinger Duggar and Jeremy Vuolo’s Relationship Timeline

She continued, “Some other years, I remember us waiting and each person would open. They either start from the oldest and go down, or start from the youngest and go up.”

According to Jinger, it could take “hours” just to get to her turn.

“If you think about it, you have nieces and nephews also, so it can take forever,” Jinger acknowledged of her family’s large size. “I don’t know what they do know, [and] we’re going to be excited to jump in and see.”

This year, the Duggars will do a gift exchange at Jim Bob and Michelle’s house on Christmas afternoon.

“Everybody’s going to be having gifts for the person they bought a gift for. All the older girls are in a drawing, all the guys are in a drawing — in-laws, everything,” she said. “All of the little nieces and nephews … have a drawing thing. [Everyone] is buying one gift, or a certain amount, for each other.”

Jinger Duggar Speaks Candidly About Her Big Age Gap With Her Siblings

Jinger will be shopping for her pregnant older sister, Jana Duggar, while Vuolo drew father-in-law Jim Bob’s name.

“Get him a nice pair of white T-shirts or socks or a new package of underwear,” Jinger advised her husband, who quipped that the latter idea would be better received from “the missus.”

Ahead of the big family celebration, Jinger and Vuolo will spend the morning with sister Joy-Anna Duggar, her husband, Austin Forsyth, and their three children.

“It’s going to be good,” Jinger teased, noting that she and Vuolo both want to make the  occasion “special” for the kids.

Jinger’s brood arrived in Arkansas several days before the big holiday, where she enjoyed a “girls brunch” on Monday with her sisters and mom Michelle.

“Girls brunch with all 9 sisters, a few sisters-in-law & my mama,” Joy-Anna, 28, wrote via Instagram, sharing footage from the outing. “Celebrating all of the December/January birthdays! Wish we could do this more often!”

Development, Lifestyle

Malawi Speaker Gotani Hara takes Christmas home

Richard Kayenda

MZIMBA-(MaraviPost)-The First Malawi Speaker who is also Member of Parliament (MP) for Mzimba North East Constituency Catherine Gotani Hara was on the Christmas Eve at her constituency where she interacted with her constituents as one way of thanking them for her victory and wishing them a Merry Christmas and Happy New year.

Gotani Hara crisscrossed her constituency with the Christmas messages together with some officials of the Malawi Congress Party (MCP) top which she is a senior member.

On her way to her constituency, Hara also went via Mzuzu Central Hospital where she cheered up the sick and shared with them some food items in addition to the Christmas messages.

“I’m here together with some members of our mighty party to thank my constituents for the support they gave me and MCP during the elections. Today I’m a Speaker of the Parliment because these people trusted me with their votes.

“As a parliamentarian of this constituency, I have a number of development projects such as roads schools, girl child education, women and youth empowerment, poverty alleviation and many more; in order to transform the lives of people here,” said Gotani Hara.

Malawi Speaker Gotani Hara at home

Concurring with Hara was MCP Mzimba District Chairperson, Joseph Chavula, who inspired hope and thanked the constituents for their undivided support for MCP.

Chavula also hinted that they conducted the tour in Mzimba North East Constituency and part of Mzuzu City just to hear people’s reactions to the presidential elections case that is yet to be determined by the Constitutional Court in Lilongwe.

“We are here to hear what people are saying about the elections we had on May 21 and the coalition MCP made with People’s Party ( PP) and Freedom Party ( FP). Most people are not happy with the results of the May 21 polls. What they are saying is that the results of the polls were not a true reflection of who they voted for,” said Chavula.

Throughout the Christmas celebration tour, Gotani Hara was accompanied Dr. Conelius Mwalwanda, who is a lawmaker for Karonga Central Constituency and Director of Economic Affairs in MCP and among other party officials.

At the end of the event, people were entertained by Football Bonanza in which four teams battled it out for MK1 million.

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Merry Christmas to you all!!!!!

Maravi Post Reporter
It is Merry Christmas!

 

Christians around the world are celebrating Christmas, which marks the birth of Jesus Christ.

The mood in the streets of the country were jubilant on Christmas Eve as people went about shopping in readiness for the celebration, which falls on December 25 every year.

Public transport users had, in some cases, to wait for over 30 minutes to board a minibus as everyone wanted to arrive at shops earlier.

One of the residents of Blantyre City, Magret Matchado, said she would celebrate the day praising God at her church, saying people should always bear in mind that Christmas is the birthday of Jesus Christ.

“It is a day to celebrate the great things that Jesus [Christ] has been doing for me since his birth. You see, as we are celebrating, some people are sick, others passed on but I am here— alive and in good health,” she said as quoted in the Daily Times.

Linda Edson, a mobile money agent who also sells airtime in Blantyre, concurred with Matchado, saying this is a day to celebrate the love of God.

She said there has been a great improvement in business as a lot of people are sending and receiving money from across the country.

A Lilongwe resident Alick Siyasiya said Christmas is time for family and friends.

“After church, I will spend time with my family at home and I will visit relatives in the evening,” he said.

Apostle Willie Chaponda of Mustard Seed Church said Christmas is an important event in salvation of mankind as Christians all over the world celebrate the birth of Messiah.

He said the birth of Jesus on Earth over 2,000 years ago remains the basis of salvation of the world and is worthy to be celebrated while following Christian values.

“Jesus came to end sin and you cannot celebrate the birth of someone who came to end sin by committing sins such as drinking, fornicating and committing adultery. People can go to church, share gifts and celebrate just like we celebrate when a baby is born,” he said.