Everything We Learned About Brianna ChickenFry & Grace O’Malley Fallout On The BFFs Podcast
Brianna ‘ChickenFry’ LaPaglia and Grace O’Malley, the once-inseparable duo behind the PlanBri Uncut podcast, have gone from besties to the ultimate frenemies and now Brianna is spilling all the tea on her other podcast BFFs.
I’m not going to lie, it’s a really long episode and you have to search for the gold in between the sobs and old man Portnoy grumbling. But, lucky for you I was feeling generous today and listened to the pod whilst taking notes, so you don’t have to!
For those of you who’ve been too busy touching grass to keep up, Brianna and Grace were childhood besties who struck podcast gold with the PlanBri Uncut podcast — a show under Barstool Sports. As the name suggests, Brianna started the podcast as a solo venture in college and then asked Grace to join her in 2022.
The last PlanBri episode that was published was on October 10. A month passed and many fans assumed that the podcast was over, until December 5 when Brianna posted on her Instagram that she was “working on bringing back some version of PlanBri”.
On December 6, Grace dropped a three-part Instagram Story explaining that she was blindsided by Brianna’s news and that she thought that the pair were going to put out a shared statement about the podcast.
“This last year, I bit my tongue so much that I shouldn’t even have one anymore. I was willing to wait out of respect, but things don’t always work out the way you think they will. In fact they rarely do. I most definitely did not foresee any of this EVER ending,” she wrote.
Here are all the Instagram Stories:
On December 11 Brianna shared her side of things on her other podcast with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards — the BFFs Podcast. And boy, did she have a lot to say.
Here is everything Brianna said about the Grace drama on the BFFs Podcast:
Grace’s Instagram Post
Brianna claimed that Grace’s Instagram Story announcing the end of PlanBri Uncut caught her off guard. “She didn’t reach out to anyone before posting that Instagram Story and she knew what it was going to do,” Brianna said.
She insisted that they had been in constant communication about ending the podcast, contradicting Grace’s statement that it “wasn’t a mutual decision”.
Why Brianna ended the podcast
“I ended the podcast in October because it was like a forum to bully me. I couldn’t take it anymore,” Brianna revealed. She explained that she couldn’t continue pretending she and Grace were friends for the show.
“I needed to set a boundary… I ended the show because I couldn’t do it anymore”.
The Zach Bryan situation
Brianna claimed that her tumultuous relationship with country singer Zach Bryan played a significant role in her fallout with Grace. “She knew everything behind the scenes,” Brianna said.
“When the internet started attacking me, they only lifted Grace up when they were beating me down.”
Brianna felt that Grace never defended her despite knowing about the alleged emotional abuse she experienced with Bryan.
“When I came forward with all the Zach shit, she didn’t reach out to me,” Brianna claimed. “She texted me after that episode and said, ‘I’m sure that was a weight off your shoulders.’ That’s it.”
Brianna went on to clarify that according to her, they were still friends during her relationship with Zach.
“She wasn’t cut out of my life. I was still friends with her. She just hated me because I was dating Zach,” Brianna said.
“I apologised and admitted it publicly that I was in this horrible relationship and it fucked all my friendships up, and I lost myself and I treated people that I loved like they didn’t matter.”
Grace and Brianna’s friendship strain
The tension between Brianna and Grace apparently reached a boiling point in May. Brianna confronted Grace, saying, “Grace, you know everything that I’m going through and you still refuse to defend me online because it helps build you up”.
Brianna felt abandoned by her, stating: “I needed her so bad and I know she needed me, too, during that year. She felt like I left her”.
She continued, “She would always be, like, ‘Well I know the truth. Everyone knows that we’re best friends and everything you’ve done for me.’ So I’m, like, ‘Why don’t you fucking say that online and stop feeding into this narrative’.”
Brianna also hinted at an imbalance in their friendship, suggesting she had given Grace a lot over the years. “We’re sitting there, pretending to be friends and I didn’t feel seen by her [so I] set a boundary,” Brianna said before adding, “I gave her everything and I would do it all over again.”
If you still want more tea you can watch the full podcast episode here (skip to 45.51 for the PlanBri tea):
What does the internet think of Brianna’s side?
Let’s just say I don’t think LaPaglia got what she set out for with this tell-all because the internet isn’t exactly Team Brianna. One X user threw shade and said, “Brianna ChickenFy listing things she did for grace whilst grace was unemployed and struggling tells me all i need to know about her….” I mean points were definitely made.
“Sorry to all of you Brianna ChickenFry fans but the way she publicly talked about her best friend of 15 YEARS just isn’t it for me,” said another user.
Another user pointed out the elephant in the room: “Dave Portnoy’s obvious favouritism of Brianna ChickenFry over Grace is very weird especially consider they are both his employees.”
Speaking of Dave, he’s not staying silent. He defended Brianna in the YouTube comments and said, “This pile on Bri here is insane. Nobody wanted to discuss this. Bri originally said she wouldn’t but she was getting so much hate we had to.”
He even offered Grace a chance to tell her side, but apparently she ghosted him. Weird, I can’t imagine why you’d ghost someone who’s only ever platformed Brianna’s side?
So there you have it, folks. Will Brianna and Grace ever patch things up? Will Dave Portnoy host an intervention? Only time will tell, but personally I think this time it’s really it for these girlies. And this is why people need to stop starting so many podcasts.
