Tom & Irina's HOT NEW ROMANCE

How the supermodel seduced the world’s most eligible bachelor

GOING FOR IT

”Irina knew she and Tom would make a perfect couple,” says the source. “She waited a respectable amount of time after his divorce, but then she moved quickly!”

They couldn’t stop smiling at each other. While stopped at a traffic light in his car during a July drive in LA, Tom Brady caressed Irina Shayk’s face as she gazed into his eyes. “He’s obviously smitten,” says a source, noting that the retired football star had had his first date with the NYC-based model the night before, and it ended with them going back to his house and her spending the night. “He was driving her back to the Hotel Bel-Air, where she was staying.”

The pair first connected at billionaire Joe Nahmad’s star-studded $13 million nuptials to model Madison Headrick in Sardinia, Italy, in May. “The wedding was crawling with A-listers, but Irina made a beeline for Tom. She made the first move and pretty much seduced him — not that he wasn’t willing!”

Irina was on a mission. “She goes after what she wants, and she didn’t let him out of her sight at the wedding. Everyone was saying she basically threw herself at him,” says an insider source, though at the time Irina’s manager denied the claims, calling them “totally fictional.”

SKEPTICAL EX

”He wants her to be happy,” a source says of Irina’s ex Bradley Cooper. “But he doesn’t see this being longterm.”