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Dave Portnoy is opening up about his recent split from TikTok star Silvana Mojica.

YouTuber and podcast host Brooke Schofield is speaking out after an episode of the BFFs podcast upset her.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor After more than seven years at the helm of Barstool Sports — and in the wake of the company’s ill-fated sale in 2023 — Erika Ayers Badan announced Tuesday that she is stepping down as CEO. Last summer, Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy bought the site back from casino and online gambling operator Penn Entertainment for $1. That came after Penn Entertainment paid a total of about $550 million to acquire 100% control of Barstool, a few months before deciding to part ways with Barstool.

Rachel Leviss is ready to speak her truth! And she hopes LOTS of people will listen!

The CW Network has announced it will be the exclusive broadcast home of the 2023 Barstool Sports Arizona Bowl, with the telecast to feature Barstool personalities including Dave Portnoy calling the game.

Silvana Mojica is getting vulnerable about her recent split from Barstool founder Dave Portnoy.

Silvana Mojica is sharing how she feels after she and Dave Portnoy called it quits.

Is something going on between Dave Portnoy and Rachel Leviss? The Barstool Sports founder is setting the record straight.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy is opening up about his love life.

Barstool Sports is the latest digital media company to undergo layoffs.

Following the huge news last week that Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy had bought back his controlling stake in the company from Penn Entertainment, Barstool Sports is already making changes on the exec front. Barstool Sports has upped Barstool Sports New York founder Kevin Clancy, aka KFC, to GM of Comedy at the company.

Bobbi Althoff and Drake‘s rumored feud has gone viral recently, and there’s a new rumor circulating that they might have slept together.

Bobbi Althoff is shutting down the rumour mill.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy purchased the site back for $1 yesterday, according to a filing. Portnoy sold Barstool to PENN Entertainment in a two-part sale — the latter transaction having just closed in February of this year — for $551 million. Now, he gets this site back for just $1.

Dave Portnoy is the owner of Barstool Sports again, and the amount of money he spent to acquire the company might shock you.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Dave Portnoy had said he had bought Barstool Sports, the brash sports and pop-culture media company, for “pennies on the dollar” from Penn Entertainment. In fact, Portnoy paid 100 pennies for Barstool.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Dave Portnoy, now 100% owner of Barstool Sports after former parent Penn Entertainment sold it back to him — concurrent with Penn’s major 10-year sports-betting deal with ESPN — has admitted that Barstool isn’t a good fit in the gambling industry. “[W]e underestimated just how tough it is for myself and Barstool to operate in a regulated world, where gambling regulators, the New York Times [and] Business Insider hit pieces, fucking with the stock price every time did something,” Portnoy said in an “emergency press conference” video posted on X (aka Twitter) Tuesday.

Sofia Franklyn is sharing her side of the story.

took to Twitter to blast a man who appeared to be talking on speakerphone in the airport near him.“So, I’m flying commercial because Elio bankrupted me and I gotta be honest, I don’t get people like this,” Portnoy said as he panned his phone camera to a man sitting behind him who was blasting the other end of his conversation. “Who puts their buddy on speaker like this?” Portnoy asked. “It’s crazy.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Barstool Sports is now fully owned by casino operator and entertainment company Penn Entertainment, which Friday completed its previously announced acquisition of the property. Penn said it paid $388 million for the 64% stake in Barstool did not already own. In January 2020, Penn Entertainment, then known as Penn National Gaming, paid $163 million for a 36% stake in Barstool Sports, with previous owner the Chernin Group left with the same percentage stake. Barstool founder Dave Portnoy had sold majority control of Barstool to Peter Chernin’s Chernin Group in 2016. That initial agreement included a path for Penn to establish full control and ownership of Barstool Sports.

It looks like Addison Rae’s mom and Yung Gravy are going their separate ways.

Sheri Easterling made headlines back in August when she showed up on the red carpet at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards with rapper Yung Gravy and now a source is giving a relationship status update.

Changing her tune? After Olivia O’Brien made headlines when she alleged she briefly dated Pete Davidson, she has since clarified their history.

Olivia O’Brien is clarifying the comments she made about Pete Davidson in a recent interview.

This is getting messy!!

A rep for Pete Davidson is speaking out in response to singer Olivia O’Brien‘s claim that they dated.

Olivia O’Brien is one of Pete Davidson’s exes. The singer discussed their relationship in a podcast and was surprisingly candid, shocked that people knew of their relationship, and then, open, sharing when their relationship occurred and why it ended.Pete Davidson joins ‘The Kardashians’ season 2: ‘It’s time to get real’Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson kiss and soak up the sun on a private beachA post shared by olivia o'brien (@oliviaobrien)O’Brien was a guest at the “BFFs with Dave Portnoy, Josh Richards, and Brianna Chickenfry” podcast, a show that discusses pop culture alongside guests, ranging from singers to actors to influencers. The rumor first appeared in the celebrity gossip account Deux Moi, in the form of an anonymous tip.

Clearing the air. Olivia O’Brien addressed claims that she dated Pete Davidson in the past — and the singer didn’t deny the romance.

Still a sweet guy?!

The TikTok community is in mourning…

Carson Burton Cooper Noriega, a popular TikTok creator, died on Thursday. He was 19 years old.Noriega was found dead in a Los Angeles mall parking lot on June 9, according to the Los Angeles Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office. Just hours before his death, the social media influencer posted a video of him lying in bed with the caption, “Who else b thinking they gon die young af.”According to TMZ, which first reported the news, Noriega showed no signs of trauma to his body, and no foul play is suspected.

according to TMZ. Despite arriving on the scene shortly thereafter, paramedics were unable to resuscitate Noriega.Unfortunately, the star’s cause of death remains unclear as he was not in a vehicle and didn’t display any signs of physical trauma while officers do not suspect any foul play.

Sadly, don’t expect a Drake & Josh reunion in the near future. When Josh Peck appeared on the Mar. 16 episode of Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards’ BFFs podcast, the hosts asked Josh, 35, if he and Drake Bell were still friends. “Not really. No,” said Josh, who also addressed how Drake, 35, tweeted a snarky comment in 2017 when he wasn’t invited to Josh and Paige O’Brien’s wedding. “The dirty little secret … was that Drake and I didn’t stay in touch for the ten years since we made the show,” said Josh, per E! News. “But no one needed to know that.”

Supporting his wife. Josh Peck didn’t publicly react to Drake Bell‘s comments about not being invited to his wedding — until now.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDave Portnoy, founder and president of Barstool Sports, said he is suing business publication Insider over articles alleging he engaged in “violent and humiliating” sexual encounters with several women and that he took videos of them without their consent.Portnoy, in a post Wednesday on Barstool Sports, said he is also suing Julia Black, the writer who penned the Insider stories.“Somebody has to be the guy who says enough is enough. A guy who is willing to burn to make sure his enemies burn with him,” Portnoy said.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorDaniel MacDonald, the creator known online as Daniel Mac who shot to fame on TikTok by asking luxury auto owners and celebrities “What do you do for a living?”, has signed with CAA for representation.MacDonald is one of the largest automotive and entrepreneurial content creators on TikTok, having amassed an audience of more than 12.4 million followers just one year after joining the platform. He has a 1.6 million followers on Instagram, 1.3 million subs for his YouTube channel and 1.2 million on Snapchat.Daniel Mac’s most popular videos on YouTube are one in which a “complete stranger” lets him party on the guy’s superyacht (62 million views), followed by a 36-second video in which he walks up to Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, and interrupts Portnoy’s pizza video review (47 million views).