Shortly after 2024 came to an end, so did viral influencers Tyler Bergantino and Gabby Gonzalez’s relationship. Tyler revealed the two had gone their separate ways in a TikTok video.
“Gabby and I broke up. We had a lot of different beliefs,” Tyler, 31, said in the video he shared on Thursday, January 2. “The distance, not only physically but where we were at in our [lives,] I think just ended up being too much, and that’s OK.”
He continued, “Breakups suck, you know? And the public eye breakup is new for me. It’s definitely something that amplifies everything. I just wanted to let you guys know because you’ve been involved from the very beginning in Miami, and you’ve cared for us and you’ve supported us and I wanted to let you guys know because I know you guys wanted us to work out, and so did I.”
Tyler, who appeared to become a bit emotional during the clip, added that his and Gabby’s split wasn’t going to be “one of those toxic social media breakups” and he didn’t want fans to “pick sides.”
“I wish her nothing but the best,” Tyler confessed. “I wish her happiness. I hope she finds everything that she’s looking for. The story that we had was amazing. The stars aligned. I mean, everything falling into place as perfectly as it did, neither of us can take credit for that. Like, nobody can take credit for that. That was one of those God things, and just please keep us in your prayers because this is not an easy route to navigate. But, I just want to say that there’s still love out there and there’s love out there for me, there’s love out there for you. Your person’s out there.”
He also wanted to assure people that “just because it didn’t work out for [him] that those random encounters that lead to love or lead to a spark don’t exist.”
Gabby, 21, also shared her own statement on her and Tyler’s breakup and explained that she wanted to “address the fact” that she and the South Carolina native were “no longer dating.”
“I wish him nothing but the best,” Gabby said in the video shared via TikTok on the same day as Tyler’s. “He’s just not my person, and I’m not his.”
Tyler and Gabby stole the hearts of social media users when their meet-cute went viral on TikTok in June 2024. The two bonded over their heights with the former Massachusetts Minutemen player standing at 6-foot-9 and Gabby at 6-foot-1 when he inquired about her height in an on-the-street interview. Tyler later followed Gabby on social media, but she was the one to make the first move by sliding into his DMs.
Later that month, the former couple revealed to People that they had sparked up a relationship and that they were starting a podcast together.
“It was so weird because I was going into this thinking, ‘OK, cool, this is just going to be a typical collab.’ But then when we started talking, I felt like I knew her my whole life,” Tyler said in an interview with Today.com on June 13, 2024. “It was the weirdest thing. It was just so easy to talk to her. It was so easy to be myself around her. The interview shows that because none of that was pre-planned.”
