Alix Earle’s dad cracks Tom Brady joke on TikTok after daughter’s ‘instant’ NYE connection with NFL icon
Alix Earle’s dad cracked a joke about Tom Brady after his daughter sparked romance rumors with the NFL legend.
Thomas “TJ” Earle made the wisecrack in a TikTok video uploaded Sunday by his wife, Ashley Dupré, where she contemplated getting rid of an oversized blue suede blazer.
After she revealed that the blazer initially belonged to TJ, he chimed in, “I actually got that jacket because I saw Tom Brady wearing one like that.”
Alix Earle’s stepmom, Ashley Dupré, posted a video of TJ Earle making a joke about Tom Brady. Getty Images
The video came shortly after Alix and Brady sparked romance rumors at a New Year’s Eve party. GC Images
“I swear to God,” he added when Dupré asked if he was serious with an awkward chuckle.
Their three kids — Izabel, 13, Penelope, 11, and Thomas II, 8 — could also be heard bursting into cackles off-camera.
“You know what, honey? You just say the darnest things,” Dupré said as she played along, noting that she wasn’t going to cut out the joke from her video. “How ironic is that?”
“I actually got that jacket because I saw Tom Brady wearing one like that,” TJ admitted off-camera as his wife tried on the blazer. Ashley Earle/TikTok
Alix and Brady were seen partying together at a St. Barts party last week. swandivingdeep/Instagram
A source told Page Six they talked “for a lot of the night.” swandivingdeep/Instagram
TJ’s dad joke comes after his 25-year-old daughter was spotted flirting with the former New England Patriots quarterback, 48, at a New Year’s Eve party in St. Barts.
“They were at a yacht party and met, and broke off from the larger group, talking for a lot of the night,” a spy exclusively told Page Six last week.
Another source told Us Weekly that the two “had an instant connection” and “there was a lot of chemistry between them.”
Their PDA came shortly after the “Dancing With The Stars” alum confirmed on Dec. 14 that she and her boyfriend of two years, Braxton Berrios, had broken up.
Their PDA came shortly after she confirmed her single status. Alix Earle/Instagram
The TikTok star and Braxton Berrios dated for two years before breaking up. Instagram/@braxtonberrios
Brady, for his part, is single after divorcing Gisele Bündchen in 2022. NHLI via Getty Images
Days before, an insider told Page Six that their decision was mutual and “distance-induced.”
Brady, for his part, has been single and dating since finalizing his divorce from Gisele Bünchden — with whom he shares son Benjamin, 15, and daughter Vivian, 12 — in 2022 after 13 years together.
Bünchden went on marry jiu jitsu instructor Joaquim Valente in December after welcoming their first child together in early 2025.
Brady also shares son Jack,18, with ex-partner Bridget Moynahan.
