TikTok star Alix Earle was hopeful to bring good energy into 2026 — even before she rang in the New Year with Tom Brady.
“Get ready with me for New Year’s Eve in St. Bart’s,” Earle, 25, said in a Wednesday, December 31, TikTok video. “We’ve been staying on a boat with friends, but we’re going to a party tonight that’s going to be on land. Calvin Harris is playing.”
She continued, “The place we’re going is on the beach. I think my dress is a little too formal for what we’re doing, and I think other people are wearing flats or platforms and I have literally eight-inch heels because this dress did not fit me, and I didn’t have time to get it tailored.”
Earle, who wowed in a plunging burgundy halter gown for the occasion, further teased how she hoped the evening would go long before the midnight countdown.
“I’m foreseeing really good vibes for tonight,” the influencer quipped, also detailing her other highlights from the yacht getaway. “We pretty much spent all day today just laying out, chilling. We worked out in the morning, we did Pilates … but it was good.”
While Earle arrived to the New Year’s Eve party with her friends, she was later spotted speaking with Brady, 48, during the festivities. In now-viral social media footage, Earle was spotted resting her hand on the retired NFL quarterback’s back as they held a close-knit conversation.
Neither Earle nor Brady have publicly addressed their New Year’s Eve meetup, which comes less than one month after the “Hot Mess” podcaster split from boyfriend Braxton Berrios, with whom she spent two years together.
“Braxton and I are no longer together. We have been doing long distance since, basically, June and we haven’t got to see each other that often,” Earle said in a TikTok video shared last month. “It’s just been really difficult for me.”
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She added at the time, “I think that was a scary thing for me to realize because it meant us not being in the same place. A part of me also really wants to be focusing on myself right now. I just feel like I can’t be what Braxton needs. I want him to have someone who can be there for him 24/7 and support him. He wasn’t really expecting that of me … I constantly felt guilty.”
Earle moved to California earlier in 2025 while training for Dancing With the Stars season 34. Berrios, 30, meanwhile, is based in Florida when he’s not playing professional football with the Houston Texans.
While Berrios has not yet shared his side of the breakup, Earle stressed that the two-year relationship ended amicably.
“It just kinda feels like we’re on two different paths right now and it sucks,” Earle said. “We’re on good terms and I don’t want anyone to come for him or be mean to him. I think I ultimately just wanted to go with trusting my feelings. This has just been really hard. … It’s not because he did anything wrong or I did anything wrong. It just didn’t really feel like it was working out in the moment.”
Brady, for his part, was previously married to Gisele Bündchen, with whom he shares two children, from 2009 to 2022. The supermodel, 45, moved on with Joaquim Valente the next year and they quietly tied the knot in December 2025 after welcoming a baby boy together.
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