Dave Portnoy, inset: Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry Kevin Mazur/Getty Photos ; Robyn BECK / AFP
Dave Portnoy seems to be less-than-impressed with Zach Bryan after the nation singer broke up with Barstool Sports activities podcaster Brianna LaPaglia (a.okay.a. Brianna Chickenfry).
After the couple confirmed their breakup through social media on Tuesday, October 22, Portnoy, 47 — who hosts the “BFFs” podcast alongside LaPaglia, 25, and TikTok influencer Josh Richards — determined to weigh in with a particular Taylor Swift music.
“Dedicating this to @BChickenfry,” he wrote through X on Tuesday with Swift’s hit music “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived.”
The observe is featured on Swift’s The Tortured Poets Division album and is rumored to be about her previous relationship with The 1975 frontman Matty Healy.
Nation famous person Zach Bryan and Barstool Sports activities’ podcaster Brianna LaPaglia — a.okay.a. Brianna Chickenfry — had a scorching and heavy relationship earlier than splitting in fall 2024. The pair met in Might 2023, when LaPaglia, a fan of Bryan, attended the Academy of Nation Music Awards and snapped an image with Bryan. That very same month, the […]
“And I don’t even need you again, I simply wish to know / If rusting my glowing summer season was the objective,” the pop star sings within the observe. “And I don’t miss what we had, however might somebody give / A message to the smallest man who ever lived?”
On Tuesday morning, Bryan, 28, confirmed through Instagram that his romantic relationship with LaPaglia was over.
“Brianna and me have damaged up with one another and I respect and love her with each ounce of my coronary heart,” he wrote in a press release. “She has cherished me unconditionally for a really very long time and for that, I’ll all the time thank her.”
Zach Bryan and Brianna Chickenfry Courtesy of Briana Chickenfry/Instagram
“I’ve had an extremely laborious 12 months personally and struggled via some fairly extreme issues,” Bryan continued. “I assumed it will be useful for each of us to exit other ways. I’m not good and by no means will probably be.”
Whereas the nation singer requested for privateness for each himself and his ex, LaPaglia raised some eyebrows together with her personal social media publish concerning the breakup.
“I’m feeling actually blindsided proper now,” she wrote through her Instagram Story on Tuesday. “Gonna hop off social media for some time and try to heal privately. After I’m prepared, I’ll be again and able to speak. I really like you guys a lot. Thanks for your whole type phrases. Bear in mind you’re so cherished and all the things’s all the time gonna be okay.”
Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy has not been shy about sharing his assist for Taylor Swift over time. The controversial web character is a longtime Swiftie who began going viral concerning his assist of Swift when it got here to her drama with Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. “I’ve by no means seen anyone attempt to suck […]
LaPaglia first confirmed she was relationship Bryan in July 2023 after the pair met on the 2023 Academy of Nation Music Awards.
They took an enormous step of their relationship by making their crimson carpet debut on the Grammy Awards in February.
“You might be powerful when persons are impolite, you’re sincere when it’s laborious, you’re type when it’s straightforward to not be, you’re humorous in a world filled with cry infants, you’re stunning with no assist, you’re affected person after I’m an fool, you’re empathetic while you shouldn’t be,” Bryan wrote through his Instagram Story when celebrating Valentine’s Day with LaPaglia. “Want this world noticed you in the identical lights I get to. I really like you.”