Is Tom Brady crashing out online as Gisele Bündchen moves on? A historical and sociological analysis that examines the curation of self on social media
The Sports Gossip Show
The Athletic
4.8 • 734 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
There’s been a lot of talk online lately about how Tom Brady is using Instagram. He’s been posting lots of shirtless selfies, many strange AI-generated illustrations with motivational quotes, and he was recently seen with the social media personality Alix Earle. All of this is occurring while his ex-wife, Gisele Bündchen, has been posting about the new baby she just had with her new husband, Joaquim Valente.
Madeline and Charlotte dive into all of this from a perspective only they can. Charlotte covered the Patriots and has chronicled Tom Brady’s online activity since he first joined Facebook in 2014, and Madeline got her masters at Oxford in analyzing celebrities' social media accounts from a sociological perspective. The gals dive into the history of Brady’s Instagram and conduct an in-depth, qualitative analysis of every single in-feed post Brady has shared since the divorce announcement. They decode the way he’s been using social media since separating from Gisele, and come to find that his experiences are more universal than one might think.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay. |
| 0:01.3 | Testing. |
| 0:02.0 | Testing, testing. |
| 0:03.3 | One, two, three. |
| 0:04.3 | Tom Brady, Tom Brady, Tom Brady. |
| 0:06.0 | Pah, pow, pow. |
| 0:06.7 | He threw down the film. |
| 0:09.9 | 20, 10, touchdown. |
| 0:12.4 | And he's in the end zone, folks. |
| 0:15.4 | See how that sounded. Okay. |
| 0:26.0 | Hi, Charlotte. |
| 0:27.2 | Madeline, good day. |
| 0:28.0 | We're back. |
| 0:31.1 | We're back with an episode that we're both super jazzed about. |
| 0:31.5 | Oh, my God. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm so excited. |
| 0:39.0 | I think I'm this excited for this episode as it was for the Miss Main episode. |
| 0:40.1 | Have that makes sense? |
| 0:40.5 | Yes. |
| 0:45.4 | Well, because both the Miss Main episode was about Jordan Hudson and Bill Belichick. |
| 0:51.3 | And this episode is about Tom Brady and his Instagram and the way he uses it and the fact that he chooses to be online, even though as the greatest football player of all time, he really doesn't have to be. Yeah. No, he doesn't. Michael Jordan isn't online. Michael Jordan doesn't do anything. And it doesn't affect anything. This is a choice Tom Brady is making. Yeah. And it's something that he's become one of our main characters. |
| 1:11.2 | Yeah. |
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