Tom Brady set tongues wagging after he was seen getting cozy with influencer Alix Earle at a New Yr’s Eve yacht social gathering in St. Barts.

This swiftly led to wild reactions on-line, with some netizens criticizing the previous NFL star due to the age distinction between him and Earle. Nevertheless, Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy backed him, saying, “Age is only a quantity.”

Dave Portnoy has thrown in a phrase of assist for Tom Brady after he confronted some criticism over a viral video the place he was seen getting near Alix Earle at a New Yr’s Eve social gathering in St. Barts.

Earle, who lately break up from Houston Texans broad receiver Braxton Berrios, spent all evening close to Brady with the viral clip displaying them dancing and chatting intently at a membership in St. Bart.

In a single significantly second, Earle was seen whispering into Brady’s ear whereas affectionately rubbing his again.

The clip despatched social media customers right into a frenzy with a number of folks declaring the 23-year age distinction between the pair.

Portnoy, who’s additionally relationship his a lot youthful accomplice, Camryn D’Aloia, believes the uproar over Brady and Earle’s potential age-gap romance is uncalled for.

“I am seeing lot of damaging Nancy’s commenting on the 23-year age hole between Brady and Alix Earle. Unbiased, I say allow them to reside! Age is only a quantity. And for those who might pull Alix Earle at nearly 50, you’ll,” he wrote on X (previously Twitter), earlier than including a hashtag of “love chuckle reside.”

“I do not know the way Brady manages to remain out clubbing in St Barths at our age. This sport is on hearth, and I am battling to remain awake,” the Barstool founder famous in one other publish, referencing the Sugar Bowl conflict between Ole Miss and Georgia.

Brady and Earle have but to reply to the viral video, nor have they confirmed if they are a factor. Nevertheless, a supply advised Web page Six that they went off collectively to a personal cabin to speak later that night.

“They had been at a yacht social gathering and met, and broke off from the bigger group, speaking for lots of the evening,” the insider mentioned.

The sighting comes barely a month after Earle introduced her break up from Berrios, who was drafted by the New England Patriots in 2018 when Brady was the star quarterback.

In a tearful Instagram video, she cried as she known as him her “finest good friend,” earlier than including that their long-distance relationship has ended on account of their respective commitments.

“I simply really feel like I can not be what Braxton wants,” she mentioned. “I like Braxton, he’s my finest good friend, and it has been actually troublesome as we attempt to go ahead with this. We’re on good phrases, and I do not need anybody to come back for him or be imply to him.”

Since his divorce from Gisele Bündchen in 2022, Brady has been the topic of fixed relationship rumors and has been beforehand linked to Sofia Vergara, Sydney Sweeney, and mannequin Irina Shayk.

Again in December, Bündchen bought married to her Jiu-Jitsu coach, Joaquim Valente, after welcoming a toddler with him. Nevertheless, a supply advised the Each day Mail that Brady was “comfortable” for her, versus earlier speculations that he was upset.

“He is comfortable in the way in which that’s easy: he is comfortable that she is comfortable,” the supply mentioned. “Down the road, he may get married once more, and he would need her to be OK with that, so he must be OK about it.”

The insider added, “If he was upset, that will imply he nonetheless has emotions for her and that it could be unfair to the youngsters if he did not need to see their mother comfortable and transfer on.”