Brooks Nader rumors have become their own category of entertainment news — and not because she invites them. Since her 2024 divorce from Billy Haire, the 28-year-old Sports Illustrated cover model, Dancing With the Stars alum, and Love Thy Nader star has been linked to an almost cartoonishly high-profile list of men: a retired NFL quarterback, an Oscar-winning actor freshly divorced from Jennifer Lopez, the top two seeds at the US Open, a champion snowboarder, a reality TV star from a competing Hulu show, and a Greek prince.
She has denied — or effectively deflected — every single one.
What makes Brooks Nader rumors unusual in the celebrity news cycle is not their frequency but her response to them. Most celebrities issue vague PR statements or simply go quiet. Nader jumps directly into Instagram comment sections, turns interrogations on Jimmy Kimmel Live into the night’s funniest moment, and openly admits on her own reality show to things far more personal than any rumour — including a GLP-1 weight loss drug addiction her sisters staged an intervention over, and a relationship with her dance partner that began on literally the first day they met.
This is the complete, documented account of every major Brooks Nader rumor — who started it, what the real facts were, what she actually said in response, and what each one tells us about how celebrity gossip is manufactured and consumed in 2025 and 2026.
Who Is Brooks Nader? The Context You Need Before the Rumors Make Sense
Before diving into the specific Brooks Nader rumors, a brief biography matters — because almost every rumour connects back to her life circumstances in ways the headlines usually skip.
Born: February 7, 1997, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The oldest of four sisters — Mary Holland, Grace Ann, and Sarah Jane — all of whom are also models and co-star in Love Thy Nader.
Career: Nader won the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Swim Search open casting call in 2019, beating over 10,000 applicants. She appeared in the magazine every year from 2020 to 2022. In 2023, she became a cover star — alongside Martha Stewart, Megan Fox, and Kim Petras — making her only the second Swim Search alumna to achieve cover status.
Marriage and divorce: She met Billy Haire — a media executive 11 years her senior — when she was 18 and he was 29, after moving to New York City from Louisiana. They married in New Orleans in 2019. When she moved to New York at 19 with no financial support, she told People that her father said: “You better find a boyfriend.” She added, with a laugh: “Which I did, thank God, for just the rent purposes.” They divorced in 2024 after five years of marriage and ten years together. She told Bustle: “In my family, there’s nothing worse than the D-word. When I told my parents I was getting divorced, you’d think I killed somebody.”
Reality TV: Love Thy Nader premiered on Freeform in August 2025, with all episodes immediately available on Hulu. The show follows Brooks and her three sisters building their modelling careers in New York. It is also, unintentionally, one of the most candid documents of a celebrity relationship implosion in recent memory.
The single era: Since her 2024 divorce, Nader has used the phrase “single era” deliberately and repeatedly. “So, now that I’m in my single era, I feel like I’ve come into this new version of myself, and it’s so exciting and fun to discover her. The new Brooks!” she told Page Six in October 2024.
With that context in place, here is every major Brooks Nader rumour, in chronological order, with the full verified facts.
Rumor 1: Brooks Nader and Tom Brady Were “Hooking Up” All Summer — July 2024
The first major Brooks Nader rumour after her divorce surfaced in July 2024, when People magazine reported that Nader and retired NFL quarterback Tom Brady — then 46 and recently divorced from Gisele Bündchen — had been “hooking up this summer, having rendezvous in different cities.”
The story had a clear origin point: both attended Michael Rubin’s annual Fourth of July white party in the Hamptons, one of the most photographed celebrity events of the American summer. Deuxmoi’s podcast followed up claiming they had been “out and about in public together,” citing exclusive sources.
What actually happened:
Sources close to Brady told TMZ almost immediately that it was “simply not true” — that Brady and Nader had spoken for a few minutes at the party and that “the guy doesn’t even have her number.” Us Weekly confirmed the same: they “never dated or hooked up” and did not exchange contact information.
They were also later seen at Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s wedding in Venice and at an F1 party in Miami in 2025 — both large events where virtually every celebrity in attendance was photographed near each other.
What Nader said:
On Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in December 2025, Cohen gestured toward the Tom Brady rumours by saying to both Nader and guest Erika Jayne: “You both dated guys named Tom, well, you more than her.” Nader’s response was one of the most-replayed lines of the episode: “Andy! One’s a newscaster, one’s in jail; everyone’s [much better].” — a reference to Brady’s post-retirement career as a Fox Sports NFL analyst, and to Erika’s estranged husband Tom Girardi, who was convicted of fraud and sentenced to seven years in prison.
She did not directly confirm or deny the Brady rumour. She redirected it into a joke and moved on. That has been her consistent strategy with the more ambiguous Brooks Nader rumors — not a flat denial, but a response that makes the question itself seem slightly absurd.
Rumor 2: Brooks Nader and Prince Constantine-Alexios Were Dating — Summer 2024
Overlapping with the Brady rumours, Nader was photographed holding hands with Prince Constantine-Alexios of Greece and Denmark at a wedding in Rhode Island in the summer of 2024 — the wedding of NFL star Christian McCaffrey.
The photos were widely circulated. The story briefly competed with the Brady narrative for tabloid oxygen.
Nader did not directly address this one in detail, other than to note in various interviews that she was single and enjoying it. The rumour faded when attention shifted to the Brady story and then, in autumn 2024, to Dancing With the Stars.
Rumor 3: Brooks Nader and Gleb Savchenko — The One That Wasn’t a Rumor At All
Not all Brooks Nader rumors were fabrications. The relationship with Dancing With the Stars professional Gleb Savchenko, whom she was partnered with on Season 33 in 2024, was entirely real — and considerably more dramatic than most of the tabloid speculation.
How It Began
Nader told producers at the DWTS casting stage: “Give me the hottest, douchiest guy.” They gave her Gleb Savchenko, 41 — a Ukrainian-born professional dancer who had been part of the show since Season 16 and had a well-documented history of relationships with celebrity partners.
On Watch What Happens Live, Nader described what happened at their first meeting with characteristic directness: “We started being intimate day one… before ‘Good Morning America.’ The day I met him, the meet and greet.” She elaborated: “I felt as though there was so much sexual tension on the first day we met that it would just get worse and worse, and I just wanted to see what we’re working with.” She concluded with a line that immediately became her most-quoted: “Highly recommend. Don’t marry the dancer, but f*** the dancer.”
The First Breakup — October 2024
They initially broke up in October 2024, shortly after they were eliminated from DWTS. Savchenko reportedly ended it via text. Nader said she ignored the text and effectively ghosted him — which she claimed made him pursue her more aggressively. Within weeks they had reconciled, spent Thanksgiving together with her family, and sparked engagement rumours in December 2024.
The Cheating Allegations and Final Split — April 2025
After about seven months of on-and-off dating, sources told People on April 7, 2025 that Nader had ended the relationship after suspecting Savchenko of cheating. The same day, Nader posted a TikTok in which she lip-synced to an audio clip: “If you go away for a few days and he’s not fing strong enough in his own mind to keep his dk in his fing pants, well then he can fk off anyway.”
The message was not subtle.
The same day, Savchenko told Page Six he was blindsided: “I was surprised to learn through articles published today that Brooks has ended our relationship. The last communication I received from her was a text on April 6, asking to speak. I called her today in response, but she has not replied.” He said the last time he had seen her in person was March 31 and April 1, when he visited her in New York.
He denied the cheating allegation categorically: “I’m not a cheater. I’m actually a family guy. I’m a relationship guy. I’m not a f–kboy who goes around and goes on all these dates. I’m not even on dating apps.”
Nader’s sister Grace Ann had also publicly accused Savchenko of infidelity before Brooks had said anything herself — which Savchenko cited as evidence of a coordinated narrative tied to the promotion of Love Thy Nader.
The Lawsuit and DWTS Exit
The fallout continued for months. Savchenko claimed — in TikTok comments — that he had not been asked back for DWTS Season 34, and wrote: “14 years of loyalty, erased by someone’s lie.” He also reportedly filed a lawsuit against Nader.
The Love Thy Nader trailer, released in August 2025, centred heavily on the Savchenko situation. Nader was shown saying: “He’s a cheater and I have all that proof.”
Neither the lawsuit details nor any further official statements resolved the dispute publicly. Savchenko has maintained he did not cheat. Nader has maintained he did. The Brooks Nader rumors around Gleb were not rumours — they were the most documented and dramatic real relationship in her post-divorce story.
Rumor 4: Brooks Nader Dating Both Jannik Sinner AND Carlos Alcaraz at the Same Time — August–September 2025
This is the most entertainingly absurd entry in the Brooks Nader rumors catalogue — and one that she handled better than almost any PR team could have scripted.
In August 2025, Nader attended the US Open. Page Six reported that she was simultaneously dating both Jannik Sinner — the Italian world No. 1 — and Carlos Alcaraz, the Spanish world No. 2, while both were competing in the same tournament.
The story was, to be charitable, extraordinary.
What Her Sister Said
Grace Ann Nader, speaking to E! News at Raising Cane’s New York Fashion Week show on September 10, made it significantly worse: “The rumors are true. Dating is such a loose term. But I do know he’s the man of the hour.” When asked if she had met Alcaraz, Grace Ann said she was “dying to” and confirmed he had already met the other sisters.
The next day, Brooks confirmed to Us Weekly that she was, in fact, single — and responded to all the dating speculation with the most quotable line of her single era: “I swear I’m single, and if I’m flirting, you’ve been there too. Do not judge me. Let me flirt in peace.” She added: “My poor dad, though, calls me every other day, and he’s like, ‘Now, who’s this one? Now, there’s another one. Now, who’s this one? And what am I supposed to tell my friends in Louisiana?’ And I’m like, ‘I’m having a damn conversation.’ It’s so crazy.”
The Jimmy Kimmel Interrogation
In September 2025, Nader appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Kimmel opened immediately: “Are you dating Italian superstar Jannik Sinner?”
Nader responded: “Is this an interrogation?”
When Kimmel pressed, she said: “Ask Stephen [Colbert] what match we were at” — referencing that she had attended a match seated with Stephen and Evelyn McGee Colbert, not with Sinner privately. When Kimmel pushed further, she said: “You’re close, you’re warm, but we weren’t at that match.”
She confirmed nothing. She denied nothing. She made Kimmel’s line of questioning feel slightly unreasonable, and the audience loved it.
The WWHL Escalation
On Watch What Happens Live, host Andy Cohen asked about the Sinner and Alcaraz situation more directly. Her response: “A lady never kisses and tells, especially twice.” The “especially twice” added the perfect ambiguity — suggesting either that there was something to tell, or that she had already handled this question once and wasn’t going to do it again.
Grace Ann, speaking on The Viall Files podcast, described her sister’s dating life at the time: “It’s changing every day. We’re spanning quite a few sports. I won’t say categories, but I will say we’re dipping more into, like, the country club sports now. We’re getting off the field.”
Rumor 5: Brooks Nader and Shaun White Were Romantically Linked — Fall 2025
Among the longer list of Brooks Nader rumors from the latter half of 2025, snowboarder and Olympic gold medallist Shaun White was mentioned alongside Sinner and Alcaraz as someone she had been “linked to” by sources and gossip accounts.
Nader did not address this one specifically in any documented public interview. Her general statement to Us Weekly — “Let me flirt in peace” — covered it by implication.
White, who has been publicly dating singer-songwriter Ninja since 2019, has not commented on any speculation.
Rumor 6: Brooks Nader and Dakota Mortensen Were a Thing — November 2025
In late November 2025, photos emerged of Nader and Dakota Mortensen — a cast member from Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives — talking at a Hulu industry event. Tabloids spun the photos into a romance story, claiming the two had left together.
Nader addressed this one with the most direct factual correction of all the Brooks Nader rumors that year.
She told Us Weekly: “I love all of the Mormon Wives, and I love the show. We’re both in the Hulu gang, and I just met him for the first time. We were just chatting like normal people, and it got spun out of control.”
She specifically denied the “left together” framing: they did not leave together. She left with her sisters for dinner.
“Nothing more than that,” she said.
The Mortensen story is the clearest example of the rumour-manufacturing mechanism at work: two people from competing shows on the same streaming platform make brief professional small talk at an industry event. They are photographed doing so. The photos are run through the celebrity gossip pipeline. A story about a romance appears. None of it reflects anything that actually happened.
Rumor 7: Brooks Nader and Ben Affleck Were “Hooking Up” — January 2026
The most high-profile of all Brooks Nader rumors — and the one that generated the most mainstream coverage — arrived on January 24, 2026, when reports emerged claiming she and Ben Affleck, 53, were “hooking up.”
The story had recognisable architecture: Affleck had finalised his divorce from Jennifer Lopez in February 2025. He was one of the most famous men in Hollywood, freshly single. Nader was one of the most visible women in celebrity tabloid coverage. The pairing required no evidence — just proximity and plausibility.
Deuxmoi posted an Instagram item on January 24 stating that a source had told them Affleck and Nader had “never met.”
Nader jumped into the comments herself and confirmed it: “Haven’t met him in my life.”
Four words. No statement. No interview required. She did not describe it as outrageous or unfair. She simply corrected the factual claim at its most basic level and left it there.
She elaborated slightly at Clarins’ Hollywood Galentine’s Beauty Evening in Los Angeles, speaking to People: “It’s like par for the course. You know, it always happens.” She confirmed she was single and “ready to go” — open to dating but not attached to anyone.
Ben Affleck did not comment publicly on the rumour at any point.
The Brooks Nader rumors about Affleck were notable for one specific reason: they were not built on any documented proximity or encounter. With Brady, at least, there was a documented party appearance. With Sinner and Alcaraz, there were documented court-side sightings. With Affleck, there was no verified common event, no photograph together, nothing. The rumour existed entirely because the celebrity gossip machine needed somewhere for “Ben Affleck’s post-JLo love life” coverage to land, and Nader was the most talked-about single woman in entertainment at that moment.
The GLP-1 Story: The Thing She Admitted That Was Bigger Than Any Rumor
Among all the Brooks Nader rumors and the various claims she has had to respond to, the most significant public disclosure of her post-divorce era was not a denied rumour at all — it was something she put on camera herself.
In Love Thy Nader, Brooks’ sisters staged an intervention after discovering a basket full of needles she was using to inject GLP-1 medication — the active ingredient in drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy, widely used for weight loss. The episode showed them finding her in a bathtub in a near-unconscious state after she had significantly upped her dosage ahead of a Maxim photoshoot, while essentially living on bone broth.
Nader addressed this directly in a Bustle interview: “The thing that I was so shocked about with the show was that I had so many people reach out to me saying ‘I’m also addicted to GLP-1. I’m ashamed to talk about it because there’s such a stigma around it. It’s a crutch for me.’” She added: “I’m still on it. It’s a crutch for me, too. It’s not healthy. I should get off it; I’ll be honest about that.”
This is the disclosure that matters most in the full portrait of Brooks Nader in 2025. She is a Sports Illustrated cover model who openly admitted on her own television show that she is dependent on a weight-loss drug that is causing her harm, that her family staged an intervention, and that she has not yet been able to stop. No rumour — not Ben Affleck, not Tom Brady, not twin tennis champions — comes close to this in terms of real disclosure.
The fact that it barely registered in the same news cycle as the Brooks Nader rumors about who she was or wasn’t dating says something about what celebrity coverage prioritises.
Part 8: Why Brooks Nader Keeps Becoming a Rumour Target — And Why Her Responses Work
Looking across all of these stories together, a pattern in the Brooks Nader rumors becomes clear — and it is not flattering to the gossip pipeline.
The mechanism is always the same: A single, photogenic woman appears at a public event where a famous man is also present. A source — anonymous, unverifiable — claims there is a romantic connection. The story is picked up by aggregators. It goes through two or three rounds of amplification before the subject is even aware it exists.
Nader’s specific vulnerability to this cycle is structural: she attends a lot of events (modelling career, Sports Illustrated appearances, awards shows, industry events), she has a high profile (over 1.2 million Instagram followers, a current Hulu show), she is single (the “single era” framing she herself introduced), and she is willing to be photographed and interviewed — unlike celebrities who minimise public appearances to avoid the speculation.
Her counter-strategy is notable for what it is not. She does not: – Issue formal PR statements – Go quiet and let stories run their course – Express outrage or claim victimhood – Refuse to engage with the question
She does: – Answer directly in the venue where the rumour started (Instagram comments, for Deuxmoi; live TV, for Kimmel) – Keep responses short and quotable – Use humour to deflect questions where denial would generate more coverage than deflection – Maintain her own framing (“single era,” “let me flirt in peace”) rather than letting the rumour determine the narrative
The result is that the Brooks Nader rumors stories consistently end when she wants them to — not when the tabloid cycle runs out of oxygen, but when she decides to close the loop.
Part 9: Where Brooks Nader Is Now — 2026
As of March 2026, Brooks Nader is single, still starring in the continuing coverage of Love Thy Nader (which is available in full on Hulu), and continuing her work as a Sports Illustrated model and brand partner.
The Gleb Savchenko situation has not been publicly resolved — the cheating accusation stands, his denial stands, and the lawsuit reportedly filed by Savchenko has not produced any public resolution.
The Brooks Nader rumors about Ben Affleck, Tom Brady, Sinner, Alcaraz, Shaun White, and Dakota Mortensen have all been denied, deflected, or simply left to fade.
She told E! News at the 2026 Grammys — where she was covering the event — that no one was “currently making her heart race,” though she noted that “anything could happen.”
Her father, she has said, calls her every other day from Louisiana to ask who the current rumour is about. She describes this with the mixture of affection and exasperation that characterises most of her public persona.
Frequently Asked Questions
Did Brooks Nader actually date Ben Affleck? No. This is one of the most clearly debunked Brooks Nader rumors. When gossip account Deuxmoi posted that a source confirmed Nader and Affleck had “never met,” Nader jumped into the comments herself on January 24, 2026 and confirmed it: “Haven’t met him in my life.” Affleck has not commented. The rumour was built on no documented shared event or photograph.
Did Brooks Nader date Tom Brady? This is less clear-cut. People reported in July 2024 that they had been “hooking up this summer.” TMZ and Us Weekly reported that sources close to Brady said they had spoken briefly at Michael Rubin’s Fourth of July party but never dated, never exchanged numbers, and never went on a date. Nader has never directly confirmed or denied it — she deflected the question on WWHL in December 2025 with a joke about Brady now being a “newscaster.”
Did Brooks Nader date Jannik Sinner or Carlos Alcaraz? She has neither confirmed nor denied either relationship. Her sister Grace Ann told E! News in September 2025 that “the rumors are true” about Alcaraz, describing him as “the man of the hour.” Nader’s own public response was: “I swear I’m single, and if I’m flirting, you’ve been there too. Do not judge me. Let me flirt in peace.” The situation remains unresolved publicly.
Did Gleb Savchenko cheat on Brooks Nader? This is disputed. Brooks accused Savchenko of cheating, her sister Grace Ann publicly repeated the allegation, and the Love Thy Nader trailer featured the line “He’s a cheater and I have all that proof.” Savchenko has categorically denied it: “I’m not a cheater. I’m actually a family guy.” He told E! News he was not on dating apps and that he visited Nader every single day while on the DWTS live tour. Neither party has produced documented evidence publicly. The dispute contributed to Savchenko’s apparent departure from DWTS and a reported lawsuit.
What is Brooks Nader’s GLP-1 situation? On Love Thy Nader, Brooks’ sisters staged an intervention after finding her in a near-unconscious state in a bathtub after she had upped her GLP-1 dosage before a Maxim shoot. She admitted in a Bustle interview: “I’m still on it. It’s a crutch for me, too. It’s not healthy. I should get off it; I’ll be honest about that.” She said the episode generated an outpouring from viewers who related to the shame around weight-loss drug dependency.
Did Brooks Nader date Dakota Mortensen from Mormon Wives? No. They spoke briefly at a Hulu industry event — both appear on Hulu shows. Nader told Us Weekly: “We’re both in the Hulu gang, and I just met him for the first time. We were just chatting like normal people, and it got spun out of control.” She specifically denied they left together — she left with her sisters for dinner.
Who is Brooks Nader’s ex-husband? Billy Haire, a media executive. They met in 2015 when Nader was 18 and Haire was 29, after she moved to New York City from Louisiana. They married in New Orleans in 2019. Their divorce was announced in May 2024 and finalised in 2024. Haire is now dating Naomie Olindo from Southern Charm. Nader has described the divorce as initially met with extreme opposition from her Louisiana family: “When I told my parents I was getting divorced, you’d think I killed somebody.”
Is Brooks Nader currently dating anyone in 2026? As of March 2026, Nader has publicly confirmed she is single. She told E! News at the 2026 Grammys that no one was currently making her heart race, but noted that “anything could happen.” She has been consistent about the “single era” framing since late 2024.
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