Shannon Sharpe was quick to out his rape accuser and ex-girlfriend as an OnlyFans model when he was sued for $50 million earlier this week. Now, after denying those sexual assault allegations, an old clip of the NFL great appearing to describe sex with another OnlyFans model has gone viral.
‘You know who Sky Bri is Ocho?’ Sharpe is seen asking former Cincinnati Bengals star Chad ‘Ochocinco’ Johnson on their ‘Nightcap’ YouTube podcast.
The name Sharpe mentioned belongs to an OnlyFans model. However, she is not the Jane Doe accusing Sharpe of rape in the aforementioned Nevada lawsuit.
‘Who is that?’ Johnson asked Sharpe and retired NBA star Gilbert Arenas, a former co-host who is no longer with the show.
‘She might be famous for some vertical activity that she good at,’ Sharpe said in his famed Georgia drawl.
‘Oh, she a hooper? Who she play for?’ Johnson asked.
Sky Bri is an Only Fans model that Sharpe appeared to discuss in graphic detail
Sharpe discussed OnlyFans model Sky Bri during a previous episode of his Nightcap podcast
Sky Bri (pictured) is not the ex-girlfriend currently suing Sharpe in Nevada over rape claims
‘She got her own little thing, ya know?’ Sharpe responded, interrupting himself with his own laughter.
‘She plays on her back,’ Arenas chimed in, attempting to get in on the joke.
DailyMail.com’s attempts to reach Bri have been unsuccessful. Sharpe’s legal team did not immediately respond to DailyMail.com’s request for comment early Thursday morning.
The resurfaced clip has since gone viral, leading to more criticism for the embattled Sharpe.
‘Unc too old to be this freaky,’ one person wrote on X, referring to Sharpe by his nickname.
‘Unc has a type,’ another added.
And that’s not the only resurfaced Sharpe clip to go viral this week.
Telling Sharpe she was ‘looking right at’ him, Mo’Nique responded with a minute-long rant about the need to date someone closer to his own age
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Fans and critics are both seizing on some advice the 56-year-old podcaster received – and apparently ignored – from his fellow quinquagenarian, comedian Mo’Nique. Asked during a 2024 Club Shay Shay podcast about the dating scene for 50-year-olds, Mo’Nique proudly said she’s ‘not 56 and trying’ in an apparent allusion to Sharpe.
‘What you trying to say?’ Sharpe asked the Academy Award winner.
Telling Sharpe she was ‘looking right at’ him, Mo’Nique responded with a minute-long rant about the need to date someone closer to his own age – advice many see as prescient now that he’s being accused of raping the ex-girlfriend who was only 20 when they first met in 2023.
Sharpe issued a blanket denial of all Jane Doe’s accusations, although he previously offered at least $10 million to settle the case before the lawsuit was filed, his attorney Lanny Davis confirmed this week.
What’s more, Davis also confirmed the authenticity of a recorded phone call between Sharpe and his accuser in which he threatens to choke the woman, although the attorney claimed his client was speaking ‘in the heat of the moment’ and the violent threat was ‘not intended.’
Other text messages shared by Sharpe’s legal team show the accuser asking to be choked in a sexual role-playing scenario.
‘I want you to put a dog collar around my neck and choke me with it while you’re f***ing me,’ read the message, allegedly sent by Doe to Sharpe in 2023.
Plaintiff attorney Tony Buzbee took issue with Sharpe’s legal team for releasing those sexually explicit texts earlier this week.
‘In his statement, Mr. Sharpe’s attorney references several texts,’ Buzbee wrote. ‘Every text that Mr. Sharpe’s counsel released today purportedly from Jane Doe are dated PRIOR to the alleged brutal assault set forth in Jane Doe’s case. Those texts were obviously released in an effort to distract the public’s attention from the allegations in Jane Doe’s lawsuit. It won’t work.’
Buzbee’s statement wasn’t quite accurate. One text Davis shared with the media was dated January 1 – after the first alleged rape was said to have taken place, but before the second.
‘I know u miss this big juicy a**,’ Doe purportedly wrote to Sharpe on New Year’s Day. ‘$25k for each cheek.’
A popular podcast host and ESPN personality, Sharpe is rumored to be in line for a massive new deal.
Front Office Sports recently reported that Sharpe has received multiple offers as his current media deal with Colin Cowherd’s platform, The Volume, is set to expire. Furthermore, sources tell FSO Sharpe’s next deal is expected to exceed $100 million, which happens to be the reported amount Smith got in his recent contract negotiations with ESPN.
Sharpe does have a massive audience. A recent interview with comedian Katt Williamson hit nearly 90 million views and Club Shay Shay currently boasts around 4 million subscribers, making it among the most popular podcasts in sports and entertainment.
Regardless of whether Sharpe’s next deal surpasses $100 million in total value, it will assuredly exceed the $22 million he made over 14 NFL seasons with the Denver Broncos and Baltimore Ravens.
Shannon Sharpe and Big Boi attend ESPN First Take at Clark Atlanta University on November 8
It’s unclear if Sharpe’s next podcast deal will impact his guest spots on ESPN, where his future now seems clouded.
Sharpe makes frequent guest appearances on Stephen A. Smith’s show, First Take, and was scheduled to be at this week’s NFL Draft in Green Bay.
On his own podcast, Smith revealed he’s spoken to both Sharpe and ESPN Chairman Jimmy Pitaro about the accusations.
‘I know, and I can tell you all I spoke to Shannon, not in details, but I spoke to him, and he emphatically proclaims his innocence,’ Smith said.
‘[Pitaro] made it very, very clear we are taking this matter very seriously, and we are looking into this very, very closely. And once we gather as many facts as we possibly can, we will go from there.’
ESPN has refused to comment on the allegations facing Sharpe.
