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Cristiano Ronaldo gifts 'ultimate birthday present' to girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez

Cristiano Ronaldo gifted girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez the ultimate birthday present - her own laser show featuring her face on a Dubai landmark.

The 36-year-old Manchester United superstar spent thousands lighting up Dubai’s skyline with clips from her new Netflix show.

Father-of-four Ronaldo is currently in Dubai with his family during the Premier League's winter break and he posted a video, showing the stunning Spaniard’s face on the facade of the famous Burj Khalifa tower, on his Instagram.

The light and laser show included a moment where Georgina’s name flashed up on the tower and ended with the message ‘Happy Birthday Geo’ in giant white letters above a photo of the stunning Spaniard in a glamorous off-the-shoulder black dress.

Writing in Portuguese alongside the spectacular video footage, Ronaldo declared: “Many congratulations my love” by heart and birthday cake with candles emoticons.

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Cristiano Ronaldo paid tribute to his girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez via the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (cristiano/Instagram)
Cristiano Ronaldo and his partner Georgina Rodriguez are currently in Dubai (Cobra Team / BACKGRID)

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The United hero and his partner are celebrating both her 28th birthday and the Netflix series about Georgina’s rags-to-riches life, titled ‘I Am Georgina’, in the Arab state.

And on the edge of the Burj Lake, the Burj Khalifa light and laser show is a massive draw.

The iconic tower becomes the biggest display screen in the world at night, with recent reports putting the cost of placing a three-minute promotional ad or message on the tower’s facade at a minimum of £50,000 - a price that subsequently rises at weekends.

That, of course, is pocket change to £500k-a-week Ronaldo, whose net worth is estimated in excess of £370million.

Argentinian-born Georgina says in the six-part docu-series that travelling on Cristiano’s private jet has put her off jumping on a normal plane with her footballer partner.

The brunette, who met Ronaldo in 2016 during his record-breaking career with Real Madrid, whizzes around Europe on his Gulfstream G20 plane.

She admitted on her new Netflix show: “To me the best part of travelling in Cris’s jet is its crew, no doubt and the jet does really make life much easier.”

Speaking as she boarded the plane to Paris to choose an outfit for the Cannes Film Festival at Jean Paul Gaultier’s studio, she added: “If I had to be in an airport for two hours with Cristiano I’d go insane.

"I mean I couldn’t go, I’d rather not travel.”

Georgina Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo have been together since 2016 ((Photo by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic))

Georgina also revealed in the show she went from taking public transport to get to the Gucci store where she met Cristiano in 2016 to being ferried around in his fleet of high-powered sports cars.

The model and influencer, who grew up in the Spanish Pyrenees city of Jaca, said: “Many times he’d come after work and I’d get out after 10 at night.

“I remember once he came in a Bugatti. My work colleagues went crazy. I’d get there on a bus and leave in a Bugatti. People couldn’t believe it.”

Cristiano Ronaldo and Georgina Rodriguez after Juventus' Serie A title win in 2019 ((Photo by Massimiliano Ferraro/NurPhoto via Getty Images))

Ronaldo features in the show and admits he rapidly realised “Georgina was the woman of my life”, added: “To me it was ‘normal’ so to speak because she was already my girlfriend.

“I know the cars I have and I’m not going to pick her up in a taxi. It was funny because I would wait for her outside the store in these flashy cars I have. Georgina’s really good in that sense. She would leave the store quickly, get in the car and we’d go home.”

He added: “I didn’t think at the beginning it would be this strong and I would fall in love with her.

“I didn’t expect it honestly. But after a while I felt she was the one for me.”

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