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Alix Earle is sharing highlights from her New Year’s celebrations after getting cozy with Tom Brady in St. Barths.
A source previously confirmed to PEOPLE that the influencer, 25, and the retired NFL star, 48, attended the same New Year’s Eve event on the Caribbean island, where they hung out and looked cozy together.
Videos obtained by PEOPLE showed Earle flashing Brady a grin, leaning over to whisper something in his ear and rubbing her hand along his back. The two were also seen laughing and dancing together.
Earle shared a recap of her holiday festivities on Instagram on Saturday, Jan. 3 — and seemingly referred to her encounter with a new friend.
“Rumor has it we’re still dancing 🕺🕺 new friends, new memories, and new beginnings to start off the new year :),” she captioned the post, alongside photos of herself and friends, including Keleigh Teller, relaxing on a yacht. “Words can’t describe how amazing this trip was. so grateful to @bgarlinghouse & @taragarlinghouse for hosting us & @managermyles for throwing the best nye party EVER!!!”
Before partying it up on New Year’s Eve, the internet personality filmed a “get-ready-with-me” TikTok, in which she gave her predictions for how the evening would play out: “I’m foreseeing really good vibes for tonight,” she told her 8.2 million followers.
On New Year’s Day, Brady shared a cryptic post on his Instagram Stories that some fans interpreted as a subtle hint at his moment with Earle the night before. “People are not beautiful for how they look or speak. They’re beautiful for how they love, care, and treat others,” the post read.
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At the beginning of December, PEOPLE confirmed that Earle and Houston Texans wide receiver Braxton Berrios had broken up after more than two years of dating.
Earle later shared that the pair had split because she couldn’t “be what Braxton needs,” adding in a tearful TikTok that she and Berrios had been doing long distance for five months amid the athlete’s busy NFL schedule and while she taped the 34th season of Dancing with the Stars.
In the days after the news of the split was made public, rumors also swirled that Earle was linked to a third NFL star — New York Giants rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart — after an image circulated online that appeared to show Dart sliding into the influencer’s DMs. Earle, however, quickly shut down that speculation, slamming the viral image as a “fake photoshopped dm” in a post on TikTok.
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Brady — who finalized his divorce from his wife of 13 years, Gisele Bündchen, in 2022 — was most recently romantically linked to supermodel Brooks Nader in 2024. A source told PEOPLE in July of that year that the pair were casually “hooking up.”
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The seven-time Super Bowl champion shares two kids, Vivian, 13, and Benjamin, 16, with Bündchen, 45, as well as a third child, son Jack, 18, with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan.
