Dave Portnoy has entered the chat in Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia’s drama with Alex Cooper.
“I just saw Brianna’s response to Alex Cooper,” the Barstool Sports founder, 49, said in a TikTok video on Wednesday, April 15. “Brianna just spilled my f***ing tea, what the f***.”
Portnoy’s video included a text exchange with LaPaglia, 26, about her video, saying he loved how “messy” it was.
The web personality also addressed LaPaglia’s claims about Cooper’s thoughts on signing Grace O’Malley to Cooper’s Unwell. (O’Malley and LaPaglia cohosted the “PlanBri Uncut” podcast on Barstool before O’Malley left in 2024.)
“Alright, here’s the tea on that, that is something I didn’t spurt but yes … that is the way it went down. When O’Malley went to Unwell and everybody was burying Chickenfry, me and Cooper had a conversation,” he claimed. “And she or he’s like, ‘I’m gonna do an interview with O’Malley and let her tell her side of the story.’”
Portnoy explained that he didn’t like the thought because he thought it might negatively affect LaPaglia. Portnoy claimed that he offered for O’Malley to talk her truth on his network multiple times but she didn’t take the offer. LaPaglia offered to hitch O’Malley on “Call Her Daddy,” which Portnoy thought was fair.
“Me and Cooper got here to an agreement. If O’Malley wouldn’t go on with Bri, then she wouldn’t put O’Malley on without Bri,” he said. “Possibly I used to be like, ‘I’ll go ballistic should you try this.’ Possibly. Cause I used to be protecting Bri just a little bit … O’Malley wouldn’t conform to go on with Bri so neither of them went on. That’s the way it ended.”
While LaPaglia spilled Portnoy’s “tea,” he quipped that he loves the drama.
Earlier on Thursday, LaPaglia added more fuel to the fireplace in the continuing drama between Cooper and influencer Alix Earle.
“OK, Alex Cooper just made a TikTok about me saying she’s not a mean girl because we had nice DMs before I came upon the whole lot about this girl,” LaPaglia, 26, said in a Wednesday TikTok video. “The those who are saying this Alex on Alix crime is sort of a f***ing PR stunt, these are the identical those who were saying bad [things] about [Summer House’s] Amanda [Batula] and West [Wilson] that it was an April Idiot’s prank. Please guys get a brain cell.”
LaPaglia claimed that she knew Cooper before her beef with Earle since LaPaglia works at Barstool Sports. (Cooper’s podcast “Call Her Daddy” was a part of Barstool before she signed a large take care of Spotify in 2021.)
“I work at Barstool, so Dave [Portnoy] introduced me to Alex Cooper,” she continued. “I used to be a fan of Alex Cooper before I knew the wrath of f***ing Alex Cooper and what she does to people and the way she treats people.”
LaPaglia added that since meeting Cooper all those years ago, she has grow to be “friends” with Earle. (Earle hosted her “Hot Mess” podcast, which was broadcasted via Cooper’s Unwell media network. Earle parted ways with Unwell in 2025.)
“I’m friends with Alix Earle. Alix Earle told me the whole lot that transpired between those two, two years ago on the Super Bowl,” she claimed. “She told me the whole lot. It didn’t occur between them on the Super Bowl but that’s when she told me the whole lot. You’ll be able to go time check me.”
LaPaglia shared that she didn’t publicly speak on Earle and Cooper’s drama before since it wasn’t her place.
Alix Earle and Alex Cooper’s ongoing feud doesn’t seem like simmering any time soon. Sooner or later after Earle, 25, announced that she was “on it” after Cooper, 31, requested she publicly break down their mysterious conflict, Earle shared a video that captured the moment she first watched Cooper’s request. “Shoutout to my friends for […]
“It’s not my story to inform so I didn’t tell it. From what Alix Earle told me, Alex Cooper is a really, very mean person,” she alleged. “Or perhaps when Dave called me when Alex signed Grace to Unwell and she or he called Dave and said, ‘I don’t give a f*** about Grace. I don’t give a f*** about Brianna. All I care about is being profitable.’ Yeah perhaps my f***ing narrative switched on you after I discovered things out about you. I was once a fan of you but now I’m clearly not anymore. I’m patiently sitting and waiting for Alix Earle to say her side of the story.”
LaPaglia also addressed Cooper releasing messages that they previously exchanged online.
“And that video you made, that was mean girl 101. That was a mean girl final boss video,” she quipped. “You seem to be my ex posting my f***ing text to him once we were still dating and sending nice messages to him. You’re thinking that I’m a mean girl? That was before I knew anything about you.”
Us Weekly reached out to Cooper for comment.
Rumors have swirled of a feud between Earle and Cooper since Earle exited the Unwell Network in 2025. Earlier this month, Earlie seemingly threw shade at her former boss when she reposted a video calling Cooper the “grim reaper.” After Earle’s post made headlines, Cooper decided to handle the alleged feud.
“But I’m obviously seeing the videos, and I’m getting tagged. I see the DMs. I see the comments. So, at this point, it just feels long overdue,” Cooper said in a TikTok video before directly addressing Earle. “Hey, girl. The passive aggressive reposts and the ‘likes’ and the commenting on things, I gotta call you out here.”
Cooper shared that there was “no NDA” and “nobody was stopping” Earle from speaking her mind.
Alex Cooper and Alix Earle gave the impression of the right duo after they initially joined forces — however the social media stars had a falling out. Cooper launched her Unwell Network in August 2023, signing Earle as her first hire. The next month, Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast released its first episode. Greater than a 12 months later, […]
“I’m really uninterested in waking up and seeing you using this fake drama to distract from other s*** going surfing for you. Not interested. I do know what happened and so do you,” Cooper continued. “So talk. Unless the fake narrative that you simply’re creating happens to be far more interesting than the reality. I even have nothing to cover relating to you and me.”
LaPaglia inserted herself into the drama earlier this month when she publicly supported Earle. Cooper subsequently called out LaPaglia on Wednesday and released several of their alleged private messages.
“This girl on girl s*** must stop. While Alix tries to get her story together, let me address Brianna Chickenfry who’s adding onto the fake narrative and dog pile,” she wrote via her Instagram Story on Wednesday. “Brianna, you coming online saying I’m a mean girl, that I’m going to get destroyed, in peoples comments saying I hate Alex Cooper … Listed here are the facts. I even have never met you in my life. The one communication we have now ever had together is thru DM.”