Who is Zach Bryan’s girlfriend, Brianna ‘Chickenfry’ LaPaglia? The country singer met the party girl TikTokker at the Academy of Country Music Awards, and the pair just survived a serious car crash

May 24 , 2024

Zach Bryan has been dating Brianna ‘Chickenfry’ LaPaglia for about a year, and they’ve already had a brush with death. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

Country singer Zach Bryan and his girlfriend Brianna LaPaglia – aka Brianna Chickenfry – just survived a terrifying car crash, as revealed in a TikTok video shared by Chickenfry on May 14.

Brianna Chickenfry has been dating country music singer Zach Bryan since 2023. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

“Two nights ago, Zach and I got into a traumatising side-by-side crash,” she said. “It flipped a bunch of times, everything shattered and thank God we had our seat belts on.”

Brianna Chickenfry has urged her followers to wear a seat belt after her and boyfriend Zach Bryan got into a car crash earlier this May. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

“But there was a lot of blood,” she added, “and we thought we were saying goodbye to each other.” She said that the ambulance came and they got “stitched up”.

Brianna LaPaglia, aka Brianna Chickenfry, has become so famous she went to this year’s Golden Globes. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

“We were OK. We are happy and alive,” she added.

So what else do we know about the Grammy award-winning singer’s girlfriend? Here’s the lowdown …

Why is Brianna LaPaglia famous?

“Y’all rocking with Flash or night mode?”, Brianna Chickenfry captioned this photo in 2021. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

According to US media, LaPaglia rose to fame on Barstool Sports for her partying and constantly-hungover lifestyle. She’s been dubbed the “No 1 party girl in the country” and was the self-proclaimed “CEO of hangovers”. She’s also been billed as the “Dr. Phil of college advice”, according to an interview she gave to the New York Post. She rose to social media fame on TikTok.

Brianna Chickenfry got famous by putting snippets of her party lifestyle on TikTok. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

“I was actually found through Barstool on TikTok for making my stupid videos. My funny videos. My hangover videos. And I got a DM and they were like, ‘Can I have your email?’ and I’m like, ‘Is this real life?’ and then we kept in touch. And then all of a sudden I’m an intern. And then all of a sudden I’m working there full-time, like, literally in a blink of an eye,” she said in an appearance on Barstool CEO’s podcast Token CEO.

Where did Brianna LaPaglia grow up?

Brianna Chickenfry is 24-years-old. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

According to Distractify, the 24-year-old hails from Massachusetts.

Why do they call her Brianna Chickenfry?

Brianna Chickenfry dressed as a cheerleader for Halloween 2022. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

In her interview with the New York Post, Brianna said her nickname was inspired by an old Vine video where she compared her legs to Burger King chicken fries. When she was coming up with a username for TikTok, she went with it. “Let’s just do Brianna Chickenfry. Not thinking that that would be my name now,” she told the outlet.

How did Brianna Chickenfry meet Zach Bryan?

Brianna Chickenfry at the Louvre in Paris. Photo: @briannalapaglia/Instagram

According to People, Bryan and Chickenfry met for the first time when they took a photo together at the Academy of Country Music Awards in May 2023, though they were both in relationships at the time. Per the same source, Chickenfry confirmed the relationship on her podcast in July 2023.

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Grammy award-winning musician Zach Bryan and his girlfriend Brianna LaPaglia – aka Brianna Chickenfry – just revealed they were caught up in a terrifying car crash earlier this month
LaPaglia, who was headhunted by Barstool Sports for her party-hardy, constantly-hungover lifestyle on TikTok, has been dubbed the ‘CEO of hangovers’ and ‘the Dr. Phil of college advice’