Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia and her bff Grace O'Malley host a podcast on the Barstool Network. Brianna was famous from Vines somehow despite being only 25, and she got her friend Grace a job on the Barstool network. Important context to see who is right and who is wrong in this drama:

Brianna Chickenfry

Grace O'Malley

Back in October, Brianna's boyfriend, country singer Zach Bryan, announced on Instagram (seen here) that they had broken up. He fumbled this a bit since he hadn't actually broken up with Brianna yet. She is pissed and and starts spilling the tea saying he emotionally abused her, and that he offered her a NDA of $12 million which she turned down. Some r-slurs on tik tok/other socials attack Brianna over this and she kind of goes into hiding for a few months.

Before this, Zach supposedly drove a wedge between Brianna and Grace. It's all super vague what the heck was going on but here is the quoted reasoning:

"But she knew that this was the worst year of my life," LaPaglia said. "This is when the internet started attacking me. They only lift Grace up when they're beating me down. ... It was, like, whatever because it helped her career, and she was fine and happy about it. But it got to a point where she was, like, never defending me."

"You can hate (Bryan), but you can still be there for me," LaPaglia added. "And she never was."

LaPaglia claimed she went to O'Malley in May and asked her to defend her online. She said O'Malley responded by saying she knows the truth and that LaPaglia has supported her.

They decided they hated each other and took a break from the podcast without officially announcing anything. Here is Dave doing a breakdown to farm engagement clicks on his new podcast channel with some zoomer, but pretty much the podcast looks to be over and they don't talk to each other at all. Dave tells both of them to take some time off and they both have a place at Barstool when they want to come back. Brianna is doing nothing, Grace is doing comedy shows with Whiney Cummings.

With things simmering down, Brianna decided it was a perfect time to stab Grace in the back announcing the podcast was over without Grace (seems familiar ). Grace is super butthurt about this because they were supposed to put out a joint statement saying the podcast was over . She does a three page Instagram story explaining this is bullshit and blah blah blah. Dave is pissed at Grace because she is stirring up drama against Brianna over something she knew was over, and tells her that. He's still under the impression that she was going to do a podcast under the Barstool network.

Brianna crying about it:

Back to the story: while Bri was dealing with TikTok mobs annihilating her and trying to move on from the breakup, her best friend, Grace O’Malley, stayed noticeably quiet. Remember: Bri championed Grace at Barstool, got her hired, and (if I’m remembering right) even let her… pic.twitter.com/BJ001MkuGx

— Ariadna Jacob (@littlemissjacob) January 10, 2025

Well, after this "betrayal", Grace blindsides Barstool and announces she's going to the podcast network ran by Alex Cooper (not Alice), of "Call Her Daddy" fame. This was a supposedly popular podcast that spun off of Barstool Sports after some drama in 2020. I first heard about it after Kamala Harris was on it. Grace then goes on the podcast circuit hyping up her new thing hitting all the usual suspects. On Theo Von, she alludes to being paid less than Brianna (duh) and says her salary was "decent" but she wasn't paid for the podcast tour. This annoys Dave, and never one to pass up engagement farming, he comes out and says she made $250,000 ($175k salary, $75k on commissions) in 2024 on Tik Tok. And of course she wasn't paid extra for the tour, that's what the salary was for.

https://tiktok.com/@stoolpresidente/video/7457284028102806830

Several of the top comments are saying Barstool needs an HR department and lots of "that's not the move, my guy" replies. I do agree with this one:

Tell us bris salary