Champions League final pitch invader's life takes remarkable turn seven years later

Champions League final pitch invader’s life takes remarkable turn seven years later

Seven years after streaking across the Wanda Metropolitano pitch at the 2019 Champions League final, the woman who promised to retire by 30 from the proceeds is instead flying her…

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In June 2019, Kinsey Wolanski was 22 years old and had a plan.

“By the time I’m 30 I plan on making enough money to retire, and streaking at the Champions League will only help me achieve that,” she said after the stunt, having sprinted across the pitch at the Wanda Metropolitano during Liverpool’s 2-0 win over Tottenham in the Champions League final on 1 June 2019.

She is 30 now. She has not retired. She has become a pilot.

In the cockpit of a pink Piper Archer

Wolanski holds dual pilot certification for both a single-engine airplane and a helicopter, and told Maxim she usually flies herself. Her personal aircraft is a pink Piper Archer.

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“Flying is definitely my passion…it empowers me. I’ll work up to a jet one day, but that’s a big step,” she told the magazine.

The private license came after 112 flight hours and roughly 18 months of training that ended with three separate exams: a written test, an oral exam on the ground and an in-flight check. She describes it as the hardest thing she has done.

A seat next to Skip Bayless on Underdog

On the broadcasting side, Wolanski hosts “The Arena: Gridiron,” a weekly NFL show on Underdog alongside Skip Bayless, three-time NBA All-Star Gilbert Arenas, former NFL head coach Jay Gruden and former cornerback Aqib Talib. She also fronts “Unfiltered,” a digital series where she trains with professional athletes.

Her athleisure brand Kinsey Fit launched in 2021. In September 2026 she signed with Creative Artists Agency, one of Hollywood’s biggest talent agencies, which will represent her across entertainment and brand partnerships. She has 3.6 million Instagram followers and roughly 3 million more on TikTok.

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The ex-boyfriend is on a plane to Russia

Vitaly Zdorovetskiy, the Russian prankster who was Wolanski’s boyfriend at the time of the Madrid stunt and who orchestrated it to promote his website, had a far worse year.

He was arrested in Manila in April 2025 after a run of livestreamed stunts that drew criminal complaints across the Philippines. According to the Bureau of Immigration, the incidents included verbally abusing a security guard, cursing at a woman wearing a face mask, stealing an electric fan and taking a tricycle before crashing it into a parked jeepney.

The Bureau’s Board of Commissioners declared him an undesirable alien on 17 December 2025. He was placed on an IrAero flight bound for Irkutsk, Russia, on 17 January 2026, the Bureau confirmed, ending roughly nine months in custody. His name was added to the Philippine immigration blacklist, barring him from re-entering the country.

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