Zach Bryan swore at the audience after an object was thrown at him during a concert Wednesday – the second time in the space of a week.
The country music star, 28, previously had an unidentified item hurled at him onstage this past weekend at the Tacoma Dome in Washington State.
Now footage has surfaced of Bryan singing at the Moda Center in Portland, Oregon this Wednesday when an audience member flung what appeared to be a can at him.
Bryan – who has lately made headlines for his acrimonious October split with Barstool Sports podcaster Brianna Chickenfry, 25 – was hit in the leg.
When he felt the item strike him, he immediately stopped the song, then picked the object up off the stage and demanded: ‘All right, who threw it?’
To a roar of applause from the audience, Bryan added: ‘Let’s not be d***s, huh? Throwing stuff at concerts?’ and tossed the item back into the crowd, in a clip obtained by TMZ.
Zach Bryan swore at the audience after an object was thrown at him during a concert Wednesday – the second time in the space of a week; pictured in August 2023
This past weekend in Washington State, Bryan was playing alongside a fellow musician when an object could be seen careening onto the stage, in footage obtained by DailyMail.com.
On that occasion as well, Bryan picked up the object, stopped performing and began grilling the crowd.
He said, ‘Who threw this? Who was it? Does anyone know? Who was it?’
The Grammy-winning artist said: ‘Don’t throw s*** at concerts, huh!’ to cheers from the audience.
The Pink Skies artist added, ‘And if you guys do know who threw it, we can get them out of here – if we ever find out who did it.’
Bryan received mixed reactions in an adjacent comment thread on Country Central’s Instagram page, on which the fan-recorded clip was reposted.
One user said that Bryan was behaving like ‘such a baby’ in losing his focus onstage, another said ‘his 15 minutes are over…’ and one called him ‘the least likeable guy’ in country music.
One user said they didn’t care ‘if you like the guy or not,’ adding that ‘no one deserves to have s*** thrown at them.’
Bryan is pictured performing in Las Vegas this February
The country music star, 28, previously had an unidentified item hurled at him onstage this past weekend at the Tacoma Dome in Washington State
Said one user, ‘Please stop buying tickets to his shows so he goes away already,’ while multiple people referenced allegations the Barstool Sports podcaster, 25, had made against him in recent weeks.
Some users defended him, as one said it was ‘crazy how someone gets junk thrown at him and yall make him the bad guy.’
Another said, ‘I’ll never understand you paying for a concert and throwing something at the artist…. Am I missing something here??’
Said one fan, ‘Zach is a dude just trying to make a good show for us and do his best. He was grateful, appreciative, and played well over an extra 45 minutes that was not covered in his venue, so that was definitely eating away at his profit for the show.
‘Don’t do something to upset someone then blame them for being upset.’
Bryan received mixed reactions in an adjacent comment thread on Country Central’s Instagram page, on which the fan-recorded clip was reposted
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Chickenfry last week claimed Bryan had launched objects at her face, as she was upset that the country music singer posted an image of a pet they once shared to social media.
‘If this man posts this f***ing cat one more time, then I’m gonna post videos of you whipping s*** at my face,’ she said November 17. ‘So can you stop f***ing posting my cat and rubbing it in my face.’
In response to Barstool Sports head Dave Portnoy’s urging for her to ‘Post it!!!!!’ Chickenfry said she would ‘just send to’ him directly. Chickenfry, whose real name is Brianna LaPaglia, later deleted the clip; as of November 17, there were no recent images involving a cat posted on Bryan’s Instagram page.
Chickenfry on November 11 said in a TikTok post that Bryan had taken her cat in the wake of their breakup: ‘I miss Stump so much – I wanna f***ing kidnap him.
‘But when he left and didn’t tell me anything, he took Stump, like out of spite. He didn’t even like cats.’
Chickenfry previously claimed that Bryan had subjected her to ‘narcissistic, emotional abuse’ during their relationship, which began in July of 2023 and ended last month, as she moved out of his Mᴀssachusetts mansion.
In a post November 15, Chickenfry said Bryan had picked out an engagement ring for her while he was ‘was cheating the whole time.’
Chickenfry on November 13 said on her BFFs podcast that the Something in the Orange vocalist had been calculated in not public responding to her accusations, as he knows she has evidence to back up her claims.
Brianna Chickenfry, 25, claimed ex-boyfriend Zach Bryan, 28, had launched objects at her face in a clip she shared to social media Sunday
Bryan has lately made headlines for his acrimonious October split with Barstool Sports podcaster Chickenfry, 25, whom he is pictured with at the Grammys in February
‘I obviously think he’s not responding because if he is to respond, he has to deny it then I post all the videos and the recordings,’ Chickenfry said of Bryan. ‘I think the response itself, the silence, is deafening. I think his response proves his character again.’
Chickenfry said on the podcast that she intentionally ‘didn’t share the whole story’ so as to let the Heading South vocalist have a better chance to understand how he fumbled their relationship.
‘I don’t believe people are lost causes,’ Chickenfry said. ‘It was my final cry at help to try to get him to see what he does to people and to try to get him to get help.’
Chickenfry said on her podcast November 7, ‘I’m still scared right now – I don’t expect people to understand emotional abuse if you haven’t been through it, and I hope you never have to go through, but if you’ve been there, you know what I’m talking about.
‘It was just this constant cycle of, “Built you up, beat you down, apologize,” over and over and over.’
Chickenfry previously said she declined a lucrative offer Bryan and his team made – to the tune of $12 million – if she would agree to the terms of a non-disclosure agreement.
‘I don’t want, in two years, to buy a f***ing house and think, “Oh, this is the money from the dude that literally f***ing destroyed me and broke me for a year” – f*** that.’
Both Bryan and Chickenfry issued statements in the wake of their October split
Bryan and Chickenfry confirmed their split this past October 22, with statements posted on their respective Instagram pages.
‘I’ve had an incredibly hard year personally and struggled through some pretty severe things,’ Bryan said. ‘I thought it would be beneficial for both of us to go out different ways. I am not perfect and never will be.’
He added: ‘With everything I am and to anyone I let down, I am sorry. I try my best in everything. I failed people that love me and mostly myself.’
Chickenfry put up a post shortly thereafter which read, ‘Hey guys I’m feeling really blindsided right now. Gonna hop off social media for a while and attempt to heal privately, when I’m ready I’ll be back and ready to talk.’
Bryan earned his first number-one album in September of 2023 and in a duet with Kacey Musgraves, had the No. 1 song on the Billboard H๏τ 100 last year with I Remember Everything.