Grace O'Malley Doesn't Hold Back as She Seemingly Shades Brianna LaPaglia and Barstool Sports in New Podcast

Mar. 15, 2025

Brianna LaPaglia and Grace O’Malley at the Golden Globes Jan. 7 2024.Photo:Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Kevin Winter/GA/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty

Grace O’Malleyisn’t holding back in the first episode of her new podcastDisgraceful.

For her new gig with Unwell Network, the 26-year-old comedian interviewed actress and comedianWhitney Cummingson Feb. 20, while seemingly shading her former employer Barstool Sports and ex-best friendBrianna “Chickenfry” LaPagliain the process.

As O’Malley kicked off the episode, she joked that “every guest that I have on [the podcast] is going to be auditioning to be my new co-host.”

“I don’t know if you know but I used to have a podcast,” O’Malley told Cummings, 42, referring to thePlanBri Uncut podcastshe co-hosted with LaPaglia, 25. Cummings then joked that “we should either be co-hosts or friends — maybe not both. So let’s end our friendship,” referencing the end ofPlanBri— which LaPaglia announced back in December 2024.

O’Malley agreed with this sentiment before Cummings added, “I have loved being your friend; I love you dearly, but Mommy’s got bills… because working with friends maybe doesn’t go so well.”

Cummings later congratulated O’Malley on her new podcast, noting, “I knew you were gonna be a star the moment you rushed up to me at Barstool Sports.”

As they posted a selfie of their first interaction together, Cummings quipped it looked like O’Malley was “miming help” amid her time at the company.

Cummings continued to shade Barstool Sports as she talked about her experience visiting the office. “Every time I go in there, I’m a little bit like, I I have to go get a tetanus shot first,” to which O’Malley quipped, “Wow. You’ve really nailed it.”

PEOPLE has reached out to LaPaglia and Portnoy for comment.

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LaPaglia previously opened up on theBFF’spodcastabout the pair’s falling out, noting that O’Malley “never defended me” amid her breakup withZach Bryan.

Brianna LaPaglia and Grace O’Malley.Todd Williamson/NBC/Getty Images

Todd Williamson/NBC/Getty Images

“When the internet started attacking me, they only lifted Grace up when they were beating me down,” LaPaglia said. “And 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 never defending me.”

In an interview withBustle,O’Malley gave a cryptic response about the end of her friendship with LaPaglia, noting, “There’s a part of me that wants to talk about it [and] a part of me that doesn’t want to talk about it.”

“I don’t know how to not tell the truth," she continued. “It’s hard to find the right words, and I always want them to be the right words. That’s my biggest flaw.”

source: people.com