Dave Portnoy Responds to Brianna Chickenfry’s Cut up from Zach Bryan with Taylor Swift Tune

Dave Portnoy is defending his BFF co-host Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia following her break up from Zach Bryan with a pointed Taylor Swift tune. 

“Dedicating this to @BChickenfry,” the businessman and podcaster, 47, posted on X (previously referred to as Twitter) on Tuesday, Oct. 22. His quick, however pointed tweet included an audio file of Swift’s “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” from her newest album, The Tortured Poets Division.

Portnoy’s publish got here after Bryan introduced his and LaPaglia’s separation on Instagram.

“Addressing one thing: Brianna and me have damaged up with [each other] and I respect and love her with each ounce of my coronary heart. She has liked me unconditionally for a really very long time and for that I will all the time thank her,” the nation singer, 28, wrote on his Instagram Tales on Tuesday.

Including that he’s “had an extremely exhausting 12 months” and “struggled via some fairly extreme issues,” he stated: “I believed it will be helpful for each of us to go our other ways.” 

The previous couple met on the ACM Awards in Could 2023 and began courting in July 2023. 

Nonetheless, LaPaglia, 25, stated she was “blindsided” by Bryan’s breakup announcement. 

“Hey guys, I am feeling actually blindsided proper now,” she started the publish. “Gonna hop off social media for some time and try to heal privately, after I’m prepared I’ll be again and able to discuss,” the podcast host wrote on her Instagram Tales. “I like you guys a lot thanks for your whole form phrases. Keep in mind you’re so liked and every thing’s all the time gonna be okay.”

Hours later, she uploaded an emotional three-minute video to her Plan Bri UnCut account by which she sat on a toilet flooring, sharing extra particulars about their breakup. 

“I simply woke as much as Zach posting on his Instagram that we broke up and I had no concept that publish was going up. He did not textual content me, he did not name me. I simply woke as much as a bunch of texts, like, ‘Are you okay?’ ” she stated.

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“That is so embarrassing. I do not give a f—,” LaPaglia continued. “How will you give each ounce of your self to somebody after which be discarded of in a number of days? It is actually, actually heartbreaking.”

As for Portnoy’s music reference, many Swifties imagine “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived” was about Swift’s relationship with singer Matty Healy.

Within the monitor, the pop star, 34, slams a former lover for making her imagine they have been in love, after which abruptly ending issues and ruining her summer time.

“It wasn’t horny as soon as it wasn’t forbidden / I’d’ve died to your sins / As an alternative I simply died inside,” she sings. “And also you deserve jail however you gained’t get time / You’ll slide into inboxes and slip via the bars / You crashed my get together and your rental automotive / You stated regular women have been ‘boring’ / However you have been passed by the morning.”