3 days after revealing her separation from Barstool Sports, comic Elegance O’Malley formally signed up with Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network.
The relocation notes a fresh phase for O’Malley after a turbulent relationship dramatization with Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, with whom she had actually formerly co-hosted the podcast PlanBri Uncut on Barstool Sports.
On Thursday, Unwell commemorated O’Malley’s arrival with an Instagram message: “@gracekomalley IS UN-F *** ING-WELL!!! Welcome home,” the statement read, gone along with by a slide carousel of pictures and clips of O’Malley commemorating with good friends.
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Cooper, a previous Barstool celebrity transformed media magnate, formerly teased the collaboration on TikTok– 2 days after O’Malley formally verified on Dec. 16 that she was leaving Barstool Sports forever.
O’Malley’s brand-new job adheres to a public after effects with LaPaglia that eventually brought about completion of their podcast. On Dec. 11, LaPaglia showed up on the BFFs podcast, which she co-hosts along with Josh Richards and Barstool owner Dave Portnoy. On that particular episode, she associated the after effects, partly, to her partnership with nation vocalist Zach Bryan, from whom she divided in October.
Below’s a recall at the connections and choices that brought about O’Malley’s separation from Barstool and her relocate to Unwell.
The fluctuate of ‘PlanBri Uncut’
O’Malley signed up with Barstool Sports in 2022 as the co-host of PlanBri Uncut along with her youth buddy, LaPaglia, that had actually originally begun the podcast as a solo endeavor in university. The program took place to come to be widely effective, also making Spotify’s 2024 Breakout Creators list.
In spite of the success, choices were made behind the scenes to terminate the podcast– the last episode was posted on Oct. 10, though LaPaglia ultimately utilized the system to review her break up with Bryan in an Oct. 22 video.
On Dec. 5, LaPaglia uploaded on social media sites that she was “servicing restoring some variation of PlanBri” O’Malley revealed shock, informing her fans the following day that she assumed they were mosting likely to produce a shared declaration concerning the podcast finishing. She additionally emphasized that she had not read about any kind of strategies of generating a brand-new podcast.
” That was my very first time finding out about this,” O’Malley cooperated a three-part Instagram Tale on Dec. 6. “I most absolutely did not visualize any one of this EVER finishing.”
O’Malley took place to claim that the choice to finish the podcast “was not a common choice,” though in the “grand plan of points, it could really wind up being the ideal one.”
On the BFFs podcast, LaPaglia firmly insisted that the duo remained in continuous interaction concerning equally finishing the podcast, which LaPaglia stated she intended to finish due to the fact that she really felt “it resembled a discussion forum to bully me [and] I could not take it any longer.”
5 days later on, O’Malley formally revealed her separation from Barstool Sports.
” I desired you people to speak with me initially that this is my last day at Barstool,” she created on her Instagram Stories. “I’m so happy to everybody at the business and to [Portnoy] for gambling on me.”
The befalling– and just how Zach Bryan suits
A considerable pressure on both’s relationship came throughout LaPaglia’s on-again-off-again partnership with nation vocalist Zach Bryan. LaPaglia later on defined the partnership as “emotional abuse,” declaring on the BFFs podcast that their vibrant took a toll on her relationships: “I shed my buddy,” she stated.
Quickly prior to LaPaglia and Bryan’s break up in October, listeners were upset when it appeared that LaPaglia was victim-blaming O’Malley for being sexually attacked as a young adult.
Later on, LaPaglia declared on BFFs that O’Malley “never ever safeguarded me” versus the on-line hate she obtained– which was worsened by the victim-blaming case and her regular podcast lacks, as she was usually taking a trip with Bryan. LaPaglia declared that O’Malley understood the misuse she was sustaining behind the scenes in her partnership with Bryan.
According to LaPaglia, she faced O’Malley in Might concerning her frustration, to which O’Malley apparently stated, “Well, I understand the fact. Everybody recognizes that we’re friends and whatever you have actually provided for me,” LaPaglia defined on BFFs
O’Malley, for her component, had no difficulty calling Bryan a “hick” and a “motherf****er” throughout a look at an online funny program in November.
Throughout a different funny established recorded on TikTok recently, prior to the Weak statement, O’Malley raised the scenario with LaPaglia once more.
” Sorry if I’m not myself this evening, I’m experiencing a separation,” she stated at the Helium Funny Club in Indianapolis on Dec. 12. “It’s an extremely typical sort of separation with simply a couple of small distinctions. As an example, it’s not a marital relationship, it was a 15-year relationship. She’s not maintaining your home, she’s maintaining the podcast.”
Dave Portnoy evaluates in
The day after O’Malley verified she was leaving Barstool Sports, the business’s owner offered his ideas on her separation, taking into account on-line commenters implicating him of preferring LaPaglia over O’Malley.
” Emergency situation stroll and talk– everyone recognizes Elegance stop (Monday),” Portnoy stated in a Dec. 17 video on X “I’m still obtaining DMs from individuals resembling, ‘Dave, you f **** ing discharged her. You’re a sleazebag for selecting sides.’ Individuals are stating her message was subliminal audio like she was truly displaced.”
Portnoy took place to claim that LaPaglia called him in October to notify him she intended to finish the podcast as a result of her clashing relationship with O’Malley.
” I do not understand what individuals desire Barstool to do,” he stated. “You have 2 good friends, two decades, both staff members, that wound up f *** ing disliking each various other. So it draws. It’s possibly for the very best that O’Malley takes place her means and that recognizes with Bri.”
Elegance’s brand-new phase with Unwell
Days after leaving Barstool, O’Malley located a brand-new home at Cooper’s Unwell Network. Cooper, that notoriously escaped from Barstool with her hit podcast Telephone Call Her Father, invited O’Malley with open arms.
” You can quit identifying me,” Cooper teased on TikTok, meaning the partnership. By Dec. 19, the collaboration was main, with Unwell announcing Elegance’s arrival on social media sites. It’s vague what her function at the network will certainly be.
What’s following for the previous BFFs?
O’Malley’s relocate to Unwell notes a considerable action in her job, however while she starts this brand-new phase, LaPaglia stays at Barstool– apparently servicing an overhauled variation of PlanBri Uncut, according to her message on Dec. 5.