ATTN, lesbians of New York: If you want to shoot your shot with Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia, you’re gonna have a lot of competition. In a recent Elite Daily profile, the 25-year-old influencer and podcaster said that after she said on her podcast BFFs that she might “fully be a lesbian,” women have been flooding her DMs asking her out on dates.
“There were actually some kind of famous women reaching out to me, and I was like, ‘What? I didn’t even know you were gay,’” LaPaglia told the website. “I feel like I’m late to the game, and it’s really intimidating. I’m 25; I’m going to go on my first date with a girl? Everyone in New York is a lesbian, so they’ve been doing it forever.” (This is not technically true — to my knowledge, for instance, former Yankees first baseman Frank Tepedino has yet to come out as a lesbian — but I get what LaPaglia is saying here.)
LaPaglia has had a rough year in the romance department. Last fall, she split with country star Zach Bryan, accusing him of emotional abuse and controlling behavior on a November 8 episode of BFFs. LaPaglia revealed that Bryan had asked her to sign a $12 million NDA after the breakup, which she declined. “I don’t want, in two years, to buy a fucking house and think, Oh, this is the money from the dude that literally fucking destroyed me and broke me for a year,” she told Elite Daily. (Bryan has issued only one public comment on the breakup, writing on Instagram that he thought it would be “beneficial for both of us to go our separate ways.”)
Despite speculation that LaPaglia rebounded with West Wilson from Bravo’s Summer House, LaPaglia told Elite Daily that she was not yet ready to date. “There have been some really great guys that I think would be amazing for me, but I’m emotionally fucked up right now where I can’t even fathom the idea of letting someone in,” she said. Still, LaPaglia has indicated on BFFs that she’s open to dating women, saying in a previous episode that she has “dabbled” in same-sex dalliances before.
LaPaglia doesn’t specify which semi-famous female celebrities have slid into her DMs. But based on the information she provides — that the women are “kind of famous,” not publicly out, and have been spotted in the New York City area — here is a short list of potential candidates.
1) Demi Moore’s dog Pilaf.
2) Mrs. Met.
3) The FBI agent in that Gabby Petito doc that all the girls on TikTok are in love with.
4) Kathleen Corradi, New York’s first appointed rat czar.
5) The Fearless Girl sculpture at the Stock Exchange.
6) Me, in a way.
