Gia Duddy and Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas appeared to finally confirm their romance in an ugly spat with a troll on social media.
Duddy shot to fame during the 2023 NFL Draft when she went viral sitting in the green room alongside then-boyfriend Will Levis during his slide out of the first round.
But the couple split later that year, with Levis now on the New York Jets practice squad after being released by the Tennessee Titans while Duddy has moved on with another NFL star.
The influencer teased the identity of her new love interest in recent TikTok clips, leading online sleuths to identify her new boyfriend as wide receiver Iosivas.
They had still not publicly hard-launched their relationship despite Duddy speaking openly about the fact she is dating a Bengals player.
And after she shared a host of pictures of herself watching Sunday’s game against the Jacksonville Jaguars, they seemingly went public as Iosivas jumped into her comments section to defend her from an online troll.
Gia Duddy shared pictures at Sunday’s Bengals game against the Jaguars in Cincinnati
Duddy and Andrei Iosivas became embroiled in a spat with a troll in her comments section
In response to comments aimed at Duddy under her post, Iosivas, 26, found the man’s wife and wrote: ‘plz get ur husband off my girls page.’
The man responded telling Iosivas to ‘Get back to running special teams coverage. Your girls been passed around half the league.’
Duddy then weighed in saying: ‘you’re probably a great role model for your daughters…
‘Commenting hate on a woman you don’t knows account and following entirely attractive women who don’t know you exist!’ then telling his wife: ‘you’re a very lucky lady.’
Even from there, things escalated as he replied: ‘@giaduddy she is lucky that’s so kind of you,’ he wrote. ‘As long as my daughters claim to fame isn’t blow job videos and bouncing around D list NFL players I’ll be content.’
Duddy hit back with a sarcastic comment that the man ‘is a great example of how men should treat women,’ adding, ‘Did your wife make you unfollow me?’.
Duddy filmed a TikTok at Bengals practice in a VIP lanyard during training camp, and dropped a string of hints that she was dating Iosivas. She soft-launched her relationship with a photo of her man’s arm in August, then filmed him again at the Cincinnati Open with her, with tattoos visible on his left arm like Iosivas has.
When she was dating Levis, she was caught up in an ordeal where internet hackers leaked an intimate tape of the pair.
Duddy recently started dating a Bengals player but has kept his identity under wraps
Wide receiver Iosivas was identified by online sleuths as the player Duddy is seemingly dating
The situation was brought back into the spotlight earlier this year when Levis’ mom, Beth, revealed on a podcast that her son spent a huge sum of money trying to find out how the video ended up in the wrong hands back in May 2024.
She said in an interview on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast. ‘It really hurt Will because he knew this was going to be something that probably a lot of people would see and it’s not meant for anybody else’s eyes, other than perhaps he and his girlfriend.’
‘There was conjecture that this video was leaked on purpose by my son or his girlfriend at the time which was not the case at all.
‘Will actually ended up engaging in hiring a cyber security specialist and private investigator, spent an exorbitant amount of money to try and get to the bottom of this. It’s amazing you can even do this, it’s crazy these people are even available.
‘Ultimately, a lot of the content was taken down but you know, you can never scrape anything entirely off the internet. We did find out this content was stolen and his private laptop, or whatever, was actually breached and invaded a year or two earlier when he was in college.
‘We come to find out it was an eastern European hacking group who target an attractive couple and do what they do for attention. We came to terms with that, it wasn’t something malicious from somebody else.’
