Tom Brady Defended Amid Pushback Over Rumored Age-Gap Romance

Tom Brady set tongues wagging after he was seen getting cozy with influencer Alix Earle at a New 12 months’s Eve yacht social gathering in St. Barts.

This swiftly led to wild reactions on-line, with some netizens criticizing the previous NFL star due to the age distinction between him and Earle. Nonetheless, Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy backed him, saying, “Age is only a quantity.”

Dave Portnoy has thrown in a phrase of help for Tom Brady after he confronted some criticism over a viral video the place he was seen getting near Alix Earle at a New 12 months’s Eve social gathering in St. Barts.

Earle, who not too long ago cut up from Houston Texans large receiver Braxton Berrios, spent all evening close to Brady with the viral clip displaying them dancing and chatting carefully at a membership in St. Bart.

In a single significantly second, Earle was seen whispering into Brady’s ear whereas affectionately rubbing his again.

The clip despatched social media customers right into a frenzy with a number of folks stating the 23-year age distinction between the pair.

Portnoy, who’s additionally relationship his a lot youthful associate, Camryn D’Aloia, believes the uproar over Brady and Earle’s potential age-gap romance is uncalled for.

“I am seeing lot of detrimental Nancy’s commenting on the 23-year age hole between Brady and Alix Earle. Unbiased, I say allow them to reside! Age is only a quantity. And in the event you may pull Alix Earle at nearly 50, you’ll,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter), earlier than including a hashtag of “love giggle reside.”

“I do not know the way Brady manages to remain out clubbing in St Barths at our age. This recreation is on hearth, and I am battling to remain awake,” the Barstool founder famous in one other put up, referencing the Sugar Bowl conflict between Ole Miss and Georgia.

Brady and Earle have but to reply to the viral video, nor have they confirmed if they are a factor. Nonetheless, a supply informed Page Six that they went off collectively to a personal cabin to speak later that night.

“They have been at a yacht social gathering and met, and broke off from the bigger group, speaking for lots of the evening,” the insider stated.

The sighting comes barely a month after Earle introduced her cut up from Berrios, who was drafted by the New England Patriots in 2018 when Brady was the star quarterback.

In a tearful Instagram video, she cried as she referred to as him her “greatest good friend,” earlier than including that their long-distance relationship has ended as a result of their respective commitments.

“I simply really feel like I am unable to be what Braxton wants,” she stated. “I really like Braxton, he’s my greatest good friend, and it has been actually troublesome as we try to go ahead with this. We’re on good phrases, and I do not need anybody to return for him or be imply to him.”

Since his divorce from Gisele Bündchen in 2022, Brady has been the topic of fixed relationship rumors and has been beforehand linked to Sofia Vergara, Sydney Sweeney, and mannequin Irina Shayk.

Again in December, Bündchen obtained married to her Jiu-Jitsu coach, Joaquim Valente, after welcoming a toddler with him. Nonetheless, a supply informed the Daily Mail that Brady was “pleased” for her, versus earlier speculations that he was upset.

“He is pleased in the way in which that’s easy: he is pleased that she is pleased,” the supply stated. “Down the road, he may get married once more, and he would need her to be OK with that, so he must be OK about it.”

The insider added, “If he was upset, that will imply he nonetheless has emotions for her and that it might be unfair to the youngsters if he did not wish to see their mother pleased and transfer on.”