Celebrity SAS star Rudy Reyes has ended his relationship with fiancée Jade Struck. The former military man, 53, has removed all photos of 25-year-old firearms instructor Jade from his Instagram, and the couple no longer follows each other. Rudy is a former U.S. Marine and actor known for his role in Generation Kill. He became engaged to Jade Struck in 2020. Over the years, Rudy and Jade have voiced the character Iskra in the popular video game franchise, Call of Duty. However, it appears that their romance has now come to an abrupt end. Rudy revealed the breakup during a conversation with a fan, who asked if Jade was in the UK with him after his recent trip to London.
The reply, that has since been deleted, read: "We are not together anymore sadly but I take every opportunity for growth and improvement." The heartbroken fan responded: "Oh Rudy, I'm so so sorry to hear that. You always looked such a gorgeous lovely couple," according to The Sun. Speaking previously about their romance, Jade told Hook & Barrel in 2023: "I need someone who has a lot of confidence and who’s proud of what I'm doing. I'm about my work, and I never let my relationships affect my work." In recent years, Rudy has opened up about all the trials and tribulations he had been through. Behind the 51-year-old’s tough guy image is a deeper and darker back story, ranging from childhood abuse and homelessness to drug addiction and a year in a mental institution. It’s a story that Rudy says moulded him into the survivor he is today – and was forged by his experiences as a soldier.
“In my first year in the Marines, 23 of my Recon brothers died in training,” he says. “We’re out at sea, battling 20ft waves. We arrive in helicopters on the decks of ships and take down the bad guys… SAS: Who Dares Wins is not that but there’s nothing pretend about it.” Of the show’s new series, Rudy says: “The contestants’ training is dangerous and conducted in extreme weather conditions.
“The celebrities are always taken by surprise at just how freaking difficult it is. I’ve been in jungles, deserts and on film sets but right here, I’m in the best place I’ve ever been in my life.” It hasn’t always been like that, though. Growing up in Texas and Missouri, he pinballed between his mother, his Vietnam veteran father and his grandparents. Life for Rudy and his two younger brothers, Caesar and Michael, was tough.
“At times we had little food, no medical care and had cockroaches and rats climbing over us in search of something to eat,” he says. “We would hide in the closet and put Dad’s cowboy boots on our arms to smash the rats. I had such bad tooth decay, the kids at school started calling me ‘boca podrida’ – ‘rotten mouth’ in Spanish. I was so self-conscious that I stopped talking, so as to not show my teeth or let out a stink.”.
Worse was to come when he was molested by a family friend, who climbed into his bed when he was 11. “I felt completely destroyed inside and started falling apart,” says Rudy, who, along with his two brothers, ended up in a home for neglected boys in Nebraska. It was there, inspired by Bruce Lee and Spider-Man in the Marvel comics, that Rudy began training in martial arts to protect himself and his siblings.
“I had these Spider-Man pyjamas,” he laughs. “When I wore them, I really believed I could be a superhero.” Rudy became his brothers’ legal guardian at 17 and paid their household bills by working at a diner and singing in a rock ’n’ roll band. When Caesar and Michael became self-sufficient, Rudy joined the US Marine Corps and passed the training to become a Recon Marine. The Mirror has contacted Rudy's representatives for comment.
