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Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia is taking a break from “BFFs” amid her breakup with Zach Bryan.
On Wednesday, October 30, the 25-year-old influencer announced she would be taking a break from the popular Barstool Sports podcast that she hosts with Barstool CEO Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards following her “hard” split with the country star.
“Hey guys! We tried to record this week but I am having a very hard time figuring out how I want to handle this publicly due to all the backlash,” she shared in a message posted via the podcast’s TikTok account.
The message continued, “I am going to put my mental health first this week. Josh and Dave want to make sure I do what’s best for me. I need to prioritize the right things this week. I hope you can all understand.”
ICYMI, Zach confirmed his and Brianna’s breakup on his Instagram Stories on Oct. 22, over a year after the two first began dating in June 2023. Following his announcement, Brianna released her own statement and a YouTube video, saying she felt “blindsided” by the post.
“I’m probably not gonna post this for a little while, but I just woke up to Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up and I had no idea that post was going up,” she said in the video, while sitting on her bathroom floor. “He didn’t text me, he didn’t call me.”
The podcast host also confirmed that they had broken up the day before, and she wasn’t ready “to do anything publicly.”
“I wanted to just handle this as a human first and now, it’s not that,” she admitted. “So I’m just asking if you guys can please respect — Jesus, I look crazy — my privacy right now, and when I’m ready to talk about everything that happened, I will.”
Following the split, Brianna’s podcast host has started to reveal his real feelings regarding her ex-boyfriend.
During a recent appearance on “The Unnamed Show,” Dave recalled two negative experiences he had with Zach that raised some red flags (he also noted that he got the “green light” to publicly share these stories from Brianna).
“He just seemed like a really immature, not confident baby,” he said at one point.
The CEO also said it was “crazy” that Zach had allegedly signed up for the dating app Raya amid the breakup.
“That’s dirty business,” Dave said, adding: “He was on a dating app before the body was cold!”
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