Cristiano Ronaldo and girlfriend Irina Shayk split after five-year relationship

Cristiano Ronaldo and his model girlfriend Irina Shayk have ended their relationship after five years, Shayk's representative has confirmed.

Rumors of a split first broke after Shayk was not by Ronaldo’s side at the annual FIFA Ballon d’Or in Zurich last Monday. Instead, he appeared at the awards event with his mother, Maria Dolores dos Santos Aveiro, and young son, Cristiano Jr., whom he fathered with an unidentified woman.

The Russian beauty’s representative told Page Six that Shayk and Ronaldo have called it quits, saying: "We can confirm Irina Shayk has ended her relationship to Cristiano Ronaldo."

Some believed the couple had split up after Shayk didn’t show up to Ronaldo’s mother’s 60th birthday party on New Year’s Eve.

But Shayk’s representative added that: “She has been close with his family throughout the course of their relationship. Any negative rumors with regards to Irina and the Ronaldo family are completely false, and have not been a factor in the cause of the spilt. Irina has no further comment at the time.”