Zach Bryan Shares Video of Him Lighting fixtures Barstool Sports Flag on Fire After Brianna Chickenfry Breakup
Zach Bryan shared a video of himself burning a Barstool Sports flag nine months after announcing his breakup with Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, who works for the Dave Portnoy-owned firm.
Zach Bryan is letting it burn, burn, burn.
The country tune valuable particular person seemingly added gas to the flames of his feud with ex-lady friend Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia and her colleague Dave Portnoy, environment fireplace to a Barstool Sports flag in a video shared on his Instagram Story Aug. 4.
Because the pennant—which be taught “Saturdays Are for the Boys” subsequent to the firm's emblem—ignited into flames, Zach took a swing on the burning cloth with a golf membership. He didn’t include a caption, even though the accompanying tune he chose for the post turned into as soon as very telling.
“To keep it undeniable, I appropriate don't equivalent to you / no longer a thing about the manner you is,” Tyler Childers sang on his 2025 be aware “Bitin' List,” which Zach shared alongside the video. “And if there ever reach a time I got rabies / you're high on my bitin' list.”
The fiery posting comes nine months after Brianna alleged Zach had “blindsided” her with their breakup, accusing him of emotional abuse for the length of their yearlong relationship. The podcast host's Barstool Sports family rapid rallied spherical her, with Dave—who founded the outlet—releasing a diss be aware titled “Smallest Man” with Josh Richards.
“Itty bity zach, s–tty s–tty tats / grotesque in the face, there’s no remedy for that,” Dave sang on the tune. “Country singin’ boss toddler, internet that boy a snack / throw one more temper tantrum, it's time for a nap.”
He continued, “All of your kind's Morgan Wallen, Tyler Childers' reproduction paste / You watched that you’re worthy, shut however no cigar.”
Zach has no longer publicly addressed Brianna's allegations or the diss be aware, even though he did name out “sofa warriors attacking and belittling” his internal circle amid the breakup drama.
“I'm no longer inquiring for sympathy however going for my -mates- is so low and so messed up,” he wrote on Instagram Stories in January. “I fancy my existence. I even have worked REALLY worthy for it. Whether you deem I deserve it or no longer. Whether you deem I suck or no longer. End being such unhappy full fingered data superhighway sleuths to my mates.”
The “One thing in the Orange” singer added, “Coming for folk I fancy and fancy is my line and closing straw. I've said what I needed to allege. My chest is calm out and heads are calm held high.”
For a total timeline on Zach and Brianna's messy split, be taught on.
No Records Yet
Breakup speculation turned into as soon as in fat bloom after the Web observed fewer couple's posts than frequent from Zach Bryan and Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, and commenters didn’t serve their suspicions to themselves.
“It turned into as soon as a sinful week,” Brianna acknowledged on the Oct. 2, 2024, episode of Barstool Sports' BFFs podcast when cohosts Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards quizzed her about the split rumors. “It's crazy, we don't post every heaps of for per week, it took the Web by storm. But he's going through heaps of private stuff and I went dwelling and appropriate separated—we're together now and every thing's OK.”
Meanwhile, Zach turned into as soon as already on Dave's playful list for making a crack about Taylor Swift (that he apologized for), however the Barstool Sports founder and self-proclaimed “King of the Swifties” allowed him one rush due to the he turned into as soon as Brianna's boyfriend.
Brianna LaPaglia Advises No longer to Date Celebrities
Forward of it turned into as soon as publicly known that Brianna and Zach were no longer together, she informed against relationship valuable folk for the length of a sit down-down on Haliey Welch's Talk Tuah podcast.
“I said on the BFFs [podcast] that I’d by no manner date someone valuable ever,” Brianna eminent on the episode launched Oct. 22, 2024, the same day the breakup news broke. “Literally by no manner wished to and then it kinda appropriate occurred.”
She didn't know why she changed her tune, she admitted. But, Brianna continued, “I wish it… don't date valuable folk.”
On that demonstrate, she explained, “I mediate it’s better for the psychological to no longer date any individual valuable. It's loads.”
Brianna's Cryptic Message Decoded
In an Oct. 21, 2024, Instagram post, Brianna had shared a photograph of a handwritten demonstrate detailing some pretty intense emotions.
“And at closing you'll derive that existence goes even even as you dont need it to: The days will rush and the field will drag even as you quiz it to dwell,” the message be taught. “You'll deem existence is merciless for continuing on while your feet are stuck. You'll derive folk and moments to blame on your concrete feet. Then there will reach a morning even as you wake and understand issues rush on, existence isn't merciless your feet are. The area keeps on spinning in hopes of exhibiting you that you would possibly maybe maybe maybe as successfully.”
All turned into as soon as printed the following day.
Brianna LaPaglia Says She's “Blindsided” by Zach Bryan Breakup Reveal
Lower than an hour after Zach's Instagram Story went dwell Oct. 22, 2024, Brianna followed up with her have: “Howdy guys I’m feeling if truth be told blindsided valid now,” she wrote. “Gonna hop off social media for some time and strive to heal privately, after I'm ready I’ll be help and ready to focus on.”
She added, “I fancy you guys so phenomenal thanks for all of your form phrases. Keep in mind you would possibly maybe maybe maybe additionally very successfully be so cherished and every thing's always gonna be OK.”
Brianna Felt “Discarded” by Zach Submit-Atomize up
Forward of the deepest therapeutic commenced, Brianna said in an Oct. 22, 2024, YouTube video—recorded from the self-described “comfort” of her bathroom flooring—that she had been “crying for delight in 5 days straight” when she wakened to Zach's post and its aftermath.
“I had no understanding that post turned into as soon as going up,” she said. “He didn't textual order me, he didn't name me. I appropriate wakened to a bunch of texts being delight in, 'Are you okay?' and I'm delight in, 'Did my f–king dad die?'”
Reiterating that she turned into as soon as blindsided, she continued, “How can you give every ounce of yourself to any individual and then be discarded of in just a few days? It's if truth be told, if truth be told heartbreaking.”
She didn't are trying to focus on about it yet, Brianna added, however she would. “We broke up the outdated day,” she added, “so I wasn't ready to construct anything else publicly…I needed to tackle this as a human first.”
All she wished on the second, she said, turned into as soon as to “appropriate be anxiousness for per week and lay in bed.”
Brianna's Boss Has Her Abet
Within the wake of her talking out about the breakup, Dave shared a YouTube link to Taylor's “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” and dedicated it to Brianna.
That, in flip, turned into as soon as screenshotted by a buddy who posted on Brianna's Instagram Story on her behalf Oct 24, writing atop the pointed pic, “(Bris off socials however she gave me the inexperienced gentle for this) she'll be help Wednesday for bffs. she is with mates and family. I've been screenshotting some of your form phrases and sending them to her. She loves you.”
Brianna Fashions Boundaries
Addressing speculation that there turned into as soon as a rift between her and PlanBri Uncut podcast cohost Grace O'Malley due to the she didn't publicly wish her buddy a elated birthday, Brianna returned to Instagram Story Oct. 30 to dwelling just a few issues straight.
“No longer allowing the gain to take over my private relationships anymore,” Brianna wrote. “Want to dwelling some boundaries and serve some issues to myself.”
In a separate post, she wrote, “I'm no longer attracted to sharing my private relationships online anymore since the gain wants so badly to wreck them all. Grace has been delight in a sister since I turned into as soon as 15 years feeble. I needed her a elated birthday privately.”
(Then again, Grace launched in December 2025 she turned into as soon as leaving Barstool in the wake of the very accurate atomize between her and Brianna.)
Untortured Poets Division
BFFs hosts Dave and Josh found a creative outlet for his or her frustrations, releasing a diss be aware they called “Smallest Man.”
“I said belief me, caught your pants on fireplace,” started the tune posted to YouTube November 2024. “Tinder, Bumble, Raya, knew you turned into as soon as a liar / You're a douchebag, you appropriate made a sleek rival / Subtle soon you going to wish a revival.”
The be aware turned into as soon as before every thing blocked by Warner Song Neighborhood, citing copyright grounds, earlier than resurfacing that very same day.
In a post on X, Dave eminent the non everlasting setback: “Zach Bryan and @warnermusic will have to have the worst crisis administration pros on the planet. Running spherical delight in chickens with their heads prick off trying to erase #smallestman from the gain. Did no one advise them I bustle an data superhighway firm? They appropriate assured this thing hits #1.”
He and Josh had teased the be aware on Instagram Nov. 5, and when a commenter accused them of no longer being audacious sufficient to tag Zach, Brianna waded in and replied, “We r all blocked.”
Alternate Route
After seemingly no longer acknowledging any of the conversation coming from Brianna's corner, Zach picked Nov. 7, 2024, to launch his tune “Excessive Avenue” and supply a local update.
He had visited his mother's gravesite just a few nights help for the first time in more than a twelve months, he wrote on Instagram, noting he turned into as soon as in Tulsa.
“On the spot her I quit touring due to the I got authorized to internet my masters in Paris subsequent twelve months,” he continued, “I informed her I turned into as soon as help in Oklahoma, informed her about all my most efficient mates in New York and the total nights we howled with the moon, informed her about the immeasurable laughter my band and me have shared these closing 5 years, the total calluses on my finger tips, every traipse shed, informed her about making it on The Rolling Stone and most considerably informed her about porch swinging with my exquisite sister.”
He added, “I wrote the refrain for this tune a month or two help and accomplished it after I observed I turned into as soon as blessed with all these items. I figured it turned into as soon as about time I launched it. Thank you guys for listening to ‘This Worlds a Giant' closing night and thanks to the total folk that fancy me; who have essentially carried the weight with me. Looks that all these Aloof Desires have gotten phenomenal too heavy however I’m dwelling now and I’ll serve you by means of the anxiousness.”
Brianna Alleges Emotional Abuse
Brianna has alleged that her relationship with Zach turned into as soon as emotionally abusive.
“The closing twelve months of my existence has been the hardest twelve months of my existence,” she informed Dave and Josh on the Nov. 7, 2024, episode of BFFs. “Coping with the abuse from this dude—I'm calm unnerved valid now.”
The 25-twelve months-feeble said her brain had been “rewired” from being afraid to discover her ex angry.
“He made me deem every thing turned into as soon as my fault,” Brianna continued. “He isolated me from my total total existence. He wouldn't let me be who I needed to be. He made me detest every thing that I cherished about myself.”
Zach had “fancy bombed her,” she said, and she overlooked just a few red flags.
After four pretty calm months, she said, he broke her down so that she felt “delight in he turned into as soon as all I had left, and he appropriate kept in most cases beating me down and beating me down.”
Brianna furthermore alleged for the length of the episode that Zach's team supplied her $12 million to signal an NDA and tackle silent about their relationship.
While she didn't need money that reminded her of her ex, Brianna said she didn't decline appropriate to be free to air their secrets and systems either.
Quite, Brianna said, “I'm no longer signing away my experiences and what I went through to provide protection to any person that anxiousness me.”
E! Records reached out to Zach for comment however has no longer heard help.
After they recorded, Dave wrote on X, “I know folk have a total bunch robust opinions on Bri however after tonight's episode there can't be someone who doesn't recognize the s–t out of her.”
Mic Drop
“I knew I turned into as soon as making the valid decision,” Brianna wrote on her Instagram Story Nov. 7, 2024, after the episode dropped. “And I deem no longer going all out and no longer telling every thing turned into as soon as the valid decision too. You internet the narrate.”
She continued, “Your messages have made me sob. I’m able to't deem what number of ladies folk and men have experienced the same abuse. You’ve me, I'll be a notify for you all always. If I’m able to stand as much as any individual in vitality you would possibly maybe maybe maybe stand as much as the bum out of your fatherland. That is all two weeks out so I'm calm processing every thing I went through. I'll continued to activity and heal with you all! I fancy you I fancy you I fancy you.”
A few hours later, she shared a video shot by an audience member at a dwell on Barstool's Chicks in the Place aside of business: Shrimp Fall Getaway Tour for the length of a dwell performance of “Smallest Man,” highlighting the lyric, “How lucky is Bri to be freed from ZB.”
Getting by With No longer That Critical Abet From Her Chums
Brianna denied that Dave supplied her $10 million to spill her guts on the BFFs pod for…clicks?
“Dave didn't give me any money,” she said in a Nov. 9, 2024, TikTok. “A advise-all? You watched that turned into as soon as a advise-all? I took the high side street. What I did turned into as soon as dwelling a scene, paint a narrate, and even as you would possibly maybe maybe maybe't leer that very certain narrate, I don't have time to serve your hand and stroll you to LensCrafters, okay? Sorry.”
Furthermore, she continued, “I am losing money valid now. I am paying for storage, I am paying for movers, I am paying for f–king flights backward and ahead to New York to head and take a gape at and derive an dwelling.”
But She's Keeping the Art
Gesturing to the “How lucky are we” tattoo on her arm—a line from Zach's tune “28”—she insisted, “That turned into as soon as my thing. That turned into as soon as my tattoo. Now we're matching, it's OK, I don't internet it removed.”
The Sound of Silence
Zach had yet to publicly acknowledge to Brianna's allegations of emotional abuse, and she had a theory as to why he hadn't said a phrase. (But he had posted unrelated—if perchance subtly impressed by—order on social media. And for awhile he grew to vary into off his feedback.)
“I obviously mediate he's no longer responding due to the if he is to answer, he has to disclaim it,” she said on the Nov. 13, 2024, episode of BFFs, “then I post the total videos and the recordings.”
“I mediate the response itself, the silence, is deafening,” she continued. “I mediate his response proves his persona again.”
She can have spilled more tea valid away, Brianna continued, however turned into as soon as leaving the door launch for Zach to reach help tidy.
“I don't deem folk are misplaced causes,” she said. “It turned into as soon as my closing bawl at serve to take a gape at to internet him to gape what he does to folk and to take a gape at to internet him to internet serve.”
Losing One F…
Dave has heard sufficient.
In announcing that he'd be leaving BFFs on the cease of the twelve months, the 47-twelve months-feeble said on the Nov. 14, 2024 episode of The Unnamed Designate, “The issues don't interest me at all. They demonstrate me the issues after I’m going in there, I haven't performed any analysis, and I'm appropriate ripping aside 18-twelve months-olds, who I don’t even know. I don't fancy necessarily doing that.”
(Then again, he does discover it certain when he's playing ripping into any individual, and his ongoing convos with Brianna and Josh for the time being dwell boisterous.)
“Josh and Bri will proceed it,” he eminent. “It's spruce a success, however yeah, it's time for me to take a gape on the following thing. I had bustle my course with it.”
Ring-a-Ding-Ding
With out naming names, Brianna shared that she grew to vary into down an reach from her movie valuable particular person crush due to the she turned into as soon as eager with some heaps of man who tried to keep a ring on it while he turned into as soon as concurrently dishonest on her.
“Fun truth my finest celeb crush tried to streak just a few months ago,” she captioned a Nov. 15, 2024, TikTok that comprises her lip-synching to Cardi B's “Be Cautious.” “But for certain i denied bc i had a bf and i turned into as soon as getting cheated on the total time hahhahahahahah.”
Brianna added in the feedback, “Been checking out he turned into as soon as dishonest the total time lol. The week he showed me my engagement ring he turned into as soon as dming girls hahahahah.”
A New Bloke?
“Most continuously all you’ll need is a nyc daybreak. And some honest appropriate mates,” Brianna captioned a Nov. 17, 2024, TikTok—a video of herself and her mates (at the side of “one amongst the Australian boys” she'd referred to the day earlier than) looking out on the daybreak in Brooklyn dwelling to Taylor's “I Can Construct It With a Broken Coronary heart.”
“So after I turned into as soon as out with the Aussie boy the outdated day, I got popular,” she said in one more Nov. 17, 2024, TikTok after an extended few weeks of NYC dwelling-searching. “And then we went and we eminent. It turned into as soon as relaxing. We went to Central Park, and we went and got drinks and then the total heaps of dudes met up with us and my mates came.”
And when a friendly neighborhood commenter supplied, “That turned into as soon as hastily,” Brianna fired help, “Successfully, I turned into as soon as cheated on my total relationship, so yeah.”
Boo!
“You guys mediate I’m ever going to have a boyfriend again?” Brianna quipped in a Nov. 18 video in accordance to a headline speculating that she'd embarked on a sleek romance. “I’m in intensive therapy.”
As for Aussie boy, she continued, “I said in my video earlier than that, I’m inserting out with a man who’s going help to Australia. I’m by no manner gonna leer him again. Am I no longer allowed to dwell reasonably of? Am I no longer allowed to smooch reasonably of?”
And for now, Brianna—sleek from lightening her locks—is popping the tables.
“I'm single for the first time—in my existence, practically, in my adult existence, the first time I've been single,” she mused in a Nov. 22, 2024, TikTok. “I will’t suggest it more! Girls in men's fields, I am making folk descend in fancy with me and then ghosting them.”
Zach Fires Abet
On Jan. 9, 2025, Zach called out “sofa warriors attacking and belittling my mates” in a series of posts to his Instagram Story.
“I'm no longer inquiring for sympathy however going for my -mates- is so low and so messed up,” he continued. “I fancy my existence. I even have worked REALLY worthy for it. Whether you deem I deserve it or no longer. Whether you deem I suck or no longer. End being such unhappy full fingered data superhighway sleuths to my mates.”
While the “One thing in the Orange” singer didn’t tackle Briana's allegations about their relationship, he did allege he turned into as soon as “so hideous unphased by the unfounded s–t folk allege about me online.”
“Coming for folk I fancy and fancy is my line and closing straw,” Zach wrote of his critics. “I've said what I needed to allege. My chest is calm out and heads are calm held high.”
Brianna Is Healing and Brooding about Her Choices
“I’m discovering that itsy-bitsy spark of existence help in myself,” Brianna informed Sports Illustrated in an interview printed Jan. 15, 2025, “now that one particular person that felt delight in a doom cloud over me at all situations is long previous.”
A couple months later she shared that girls folk had been asking her out—and while that hadn't been segment of her previous (“Presumably I if truth be told am fully a lesbian,” she quipped on her podcast in January, “so perchance that’s why none of my relationships with men have worked out”), perchance it turned into as soon as one thing to serve in thoughts in the long bustle.
“I possess delight in I’m unhurried to the game, and it’s if truth be told intimidating,” Brianna informed Elite Day after day in March, quipping, “I’m 25, I’m going to head on my first date with a girl? Every person in New York is a lesbian, so that they’ve been doing it forever.”
But she turned into as soon as calm working through her trip in therapy, noting, “I even have to keep in thoughts it’s most efficient been four months. I calm have if truth be told sinful days, and I calm have PTSD. So, who knows how long it’ll take?”
Feud Reignited
Factual when followers understanding the mud between Zach and Brianna had settled, the country tune valuable particular person seemingly fanned the flames of discontent by environment fireplace to a Barstool Sports flag in a video shared on Instagram Story Aug. 4, 2025.
The clip turned into as soon as accompanied by the Tyler Childers be aware “Bitin' List,” by which he sang, “To keep it undeniable, I appropriate don't equivalent to you / no longer a thing about the manner you is.”
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