The Alix Earle ad that’s making Braxton Berrios and Tom Brady fans go absolutely feral (Getty Images)
Brady, of course, was at the center of that 2014 scandal, accused of ordering underinflated footballs before the Patriots beat the Colts 45-7 in the AFC Championship Game. Earle and Brady first sparked dating speculation on New Year’s Eve 2025 when they were spotted at a party in St. The rumors picked up again when both attended a private Fanatics Super Bowl party in San Francisco ahead of Super Bowl 2026. Earle and Berrios dated for just over two years before calling it quits in December 2025.
Then Earle holds the football, asks, “Do things blow up from time to time?” and proceeds to crush it until it deflates. She answers her own question with a dry “Sure” before tossing it aside. They were laughing and dancing closely together throughout the night, according to People. Brady has not said a word about any of it publicly. On her show, when a guest asked about Brady directly, she smiled and said, “I’m having fun. She also said she wanted to put more energy into building her career. She told People the experience was “therapeutic” because it gave her room to say what she actually felt. She described going through “so many emotions” during filming, given the breakup had just happened.
Alix Earle just dropped a skincare ad for her Reale Actives brand, and it has nothing to do with skincare anymore. Fans are picking apart nearly every frame of it, convinced the TikTok star packed in deliberate nods to her NFL ex Braxton Berrios and rumored fling Tom Brady. A deflated football. A live goat walking on set. A jersey number. The internet did not miss any of it. Whether it was intentional or not, Earle has everyone talking again. The Deflategate reference was hard to ignore. Barths. That alone was enough to set social media off. A video circulated by gossip page Deauxmoi showed them chatting closely and dancing, and it went viral fast. Earle, however, has been less coy. She opened up about it on TikTok, pointing to scheduling conflicts and the grind of a long-distance relationship as the main reasons. Berrios, now with the New York Giants, has stayed quiet on the matter. Earle has not. She used her Netflix docuseries, *Earle Meets World*, to process the split in real time. In the first episode, she and a friend drive to Berrios’ home to pick up her things.