It takes one hell of a person to turn down $12 million. I know Brianna Chickenfry (real last name LaPaglia) makes plenty over at Barstool. It doesn't seem like she's particularly hurting for cash, even if she went into overdrive making content out of her breakup with Zach Bryan. Instead, LaPaglia stood on business and denied the hush money that was offered to her. Still, $12 million is $12 million. That's nothing to scoff at, even if you're well off. Only the billionaires can say that's chump change. However, there is a golden number Brianna would've accepted to keep her mouth shut.
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Recently, LaPaglia spoke on the One Night With Steiny podcast. There, she obviously dives into the Zach Bryan debacle and where her mind is at after the dust has settled on it. Moreover, Brianna responds to an interesting inquiry: was there any counteroffers to the initial $12 million she was offered? Unsurprisingly, that's where Zach Bryan's team capped it off. Apparently, they started at half of that. However, LaPaglia was only biting at one hefty price point.
"No, no rebuttal. Once I declined... well it started low, and then they kept going higher. And then it hit $12 million. I think it was five [million] and I laughed in their face.... if they offered me, like, $100 million I would've. That's crazy," Brianna says.
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$100 million is definitely overkill and she definitely knows it. If that's the sincere number, I don't think any rich person that isn't a multi billionaire budges on that. However, LaPaglia says that Bryan makes more than any of us thinks. Regardless, she's insistent that her voice couldn't be bought by the country star. "I don't know... he's richer than people think," Brianna claims. "$12 million was even crazy, but there wasn't a world where I was gonna take anything so I'm glad I didn't."
LaPaglia does joke that some days, she wishes she took the easy money so that she didn't have to work. $12 million definitely makes it easy to skip out on the 9-5 setup. "I just got more value since I have a bigger connection with my audience now. That's cool. But sometimes I wish I took the $12 mil," Brianna says. "I mean, not really, but sometimes when I wake up and I'm like, I don't wanna go to work... I think about it, I'm working so much. I'm working every single day now because I always have to do something, do the next thing, I'm like, 'F***, I'm tired. Should've took the $12 mil.'"
