Brianna LaPaglia | 2025 Unpacked: Self-Discovery, Special Forces, & Life After The BFFs Pod Ending!
Off The Vine with Kaitlyn Bristowe
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
#906. Brianna LaPaglia is back on the pod — and 2025 treated her like the full-on rollercoaster it was. In this episode, she’s spilling everything: the fear, the growth, the career pivots, the solo adventures, and all the stuff she’s never had the chance to fully explain.
We talk the iconic Tarte Turks & Caicos trip, surviving Special Forces (and yes, the pain, sweat, and chaos that came with it), saying goodbye to BFFs and saying hello again to PlanBri Uncut, learning to be alone for the first time in forever, and the kind of self-discovery that hits differently when you’ve been through a lot. Plus, she’s giving us the real talk on dating, life lessons, and what she’s bringing into 2026!
Real, funny, and totally the Brianna Chickenfry we all know and love— this episode is a vibe you don’t want to miss!
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EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:
- (2:52) — Brianna shares all the tea from her iconic Tarte Turks & Caicos trip!
- (10:55) — Opening up about her lowest point in early 2025 and how she fought her way back from feeling like a shell of herself
- (29:16) — Saying goodbye to the BFFs pod with Dave & Josh and stepping into a new chapter
- (43:15) — Looking ahead to 2026: a major life move, big changes, and a whole new chapter (tune in for the location!)
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| 0:33.8 | Canada too. |
| 0:41.6 | You're listening to Off the Vine with Caitlin Bristow. |
| 0:47.6 | Hey, Vino's real quick. If you are listening right now, which obviously you are or you wouldn't be hearing this, can you hit the subscribe or follow button on whatever platform |
| 0:51.3 | you're on? Please, that one simple thing helps more than you even realize it allows me to keep growing on this podcast and making these episodes the best they can possibly be obviously for you. That's the only favorite I'm going to ever ask, okay? It truly means the world to me. Thank you. Now let's get into it. Hey, everybody, welcome to Off the Vine. I'm going to start saying it with a question mark. I'm Caitlin Bristow. Am I? You tell me. We have Brianna Chicken Fry in the studio today, which I don't think she can go by anything else but that name. That's just how we know her now. She's obviously a creator, a podcaster, barstool personality who has lived, I would say, 10 different lifetimes in the past year alone. Since we had her on last, she's obviously gone through a public breakup, |
| 1:29.9 | which she is very over-talk talking about, which I do not blame her for, a complete career reset, competed on special |
| 1:35.1 | forces, ended a podcast. |
| 1:36.9 | She's just rebranding all over the place and rebuilding her sense of safety, trust, |
| 1:41.1 | and identity in real time, online, and on this podcast. |
| 2:04.0 | So conversation is not a recap of old lore. It's just kind of about what actually has happened this year, where she's at now, which she's learned along the way, fear, growth, dating, career pivots, all the things that she's never got to fully explain maybe in one podcast, but we did it. We did it, baby. I want to know if you are so sick of talking about your past relationship. |
| 2:08.9 | Oh my God, yes, obviously. Like, shut up. Not you. But like, just like shut up and people like, |
| 2:11.6 | she doesn't stop talking about it. I'm like, because they keep getting f***ing asked about it. So I was thinking about this because, I mean, still to this day, I get asked about Sean Booth from like 10 years ago because it was, you know, I was engaged on The Bachelorette from it. And I went through so many phases of being like, just dragging him into being like, you know what, I'm over it into like, yeah, now I have like, now I look back with fond memories into like, wow, we're still talking about this. |
| 2:34.6 | Yeah. |
| 2:51.3 | But I'm like, but people would get so mad at me and they would be like, stop talking about him or like get over it. And I'm like, but I'm going on podcasts. And they're asking about it. And I want. So I was like, I'm going to, of course I have a couple questions in here. Of course. But I'm like, I just want to know how annoying it is because, just because of other people being like, well, stop talking about it. But you're like, I keep getting asked about it and everything I do. What are you supposed to do? Say, I'm not answering that. And then I don't want to be rude to people. And also, I understand it was a super public relationship. It was a super public breakup. |
| 3:07.8 | And what I do enjoy talking about it and why I shared it and why I made it so public is to help women if they were going through the same thing. If they're struggling with abuse and like how to come out of that. Yeah. But I'm so over like talking about him. Like I don't even say his name. Yeah, no. I would like that. Oh my gosh. Yeah. I don't even want to say my ex's name. I can't imagine someone that was like that big of a monster. |
| 3:26.3 | Exactly. But I want to talk about first and foremost, this tart trip that you just went on. Because there's one part of me gets jealous and I go, why don't I get invited on tart trips? And then the other part of me goes, I don't think I want to go on these tartd trips. That looks like, I don't know if I can hang anymore. No, it's a lot. It is a lot. Like I got back last night, I still feel like I'm floating right now. Yeah. Like I'm just, my body's so dead in Turks and Kekos at Prince's old house. Stop it. Amazing. There's a purple driveway. Well, Prince's old estate. Like, it's |
| 3:58.7 | insane. Crazy. It has a purple driveway? Purple driveway, like bright purple. Did he do that? |
| 4:04.1 | Yeah. Oh, cool. It wasn't not for Tart. Like it was his. I was going to be like, no. Wow. |
| 4:09.1 | Yeah. Incredible. What kind of budget does Tart have? Well, that's the thing people always ask. So they spend no money on marketing or like advertisements. |
| 4:18.1 | So you won't see any billboards. |
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