Social media personality Gia Duddy has teased a new relationship with Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Andrei Iosivas through a series of online clues.
Duddy, who gained national attention during the 2023 NFL Draft, has posted updates showing her new partner on social media while keeping his face and identity private.
Online sleuths have pieced together hints from her social channels to identify Iosivas as her boyfriend. The Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver plays in the National Football League, where Duddy previously dated quarterback Will Levis before their split in September 2023.
Social media clues and tennis tournament appearance
Duddy recently confirmed that she is in a relationship and clarified that her partner is "100% not Druski" after followers mistook another curly-haired woman seen in the comedian's car leaving an event for her.
Over the weekend, she attended the Cincinnati Open tennis tournament with her partner. She featured him in a "get ready with me" video on social media and shared images of flowers he gave her.
On Sunday, Duddy was seen at Bengals practice wearing a VIP lanyard in apparent support of her partner on the team.
Followers began linking the pair after Iosivas appeared to separate from his ex-girlfriend before the start of this year. Shortly after Iosivas followed Duddy on Instagram, she posted a TikTok video about her crush following her account.
Duddy later deleted all user comments naming Iosivas from that video while leaving comments about other athletes intact. She also posted and subsequently deleted a video in May showing flowers received from Emerald La Fleur, a Cincinnati florist known to be supported by Iosivas.
In August, Duddy shared a photo soft-launching her relationship that showed her boyfriend's right arm without tattoos, matching Iosivas. Video footage from the Cincinnati Open later showed tattoos on the man's left arm, which also aligns with Iosivas's tattoos.
Leaked video ordeal and cyber security investigation
Duddy previously dated former Kentucky quarterback Will Levis, who was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the 2023 NFL Draft. The pair split in September 2023, shortly after Levis joined the Titans.
Duddy shot to fame sitting alongside Levis in the draft green room three years ago. She has since built a massive online following, accumulating more than 650,000 followers on TikTok and 320,000 followers on Instagram.
During her relationship with Levis, the couple became targets of an online breach when internet hackers leaked an intimate tape featuring both of them.
The leak returned to public attention earlier this year when Levis's mother, Beth Levis, spoke about the investigation during an interview on the Ross Tucker Football Podcast.
Beth Levis revealed that her son spent a significant sum of money attempting to discover how the video ended up online back in May 2024.
"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," Beth Levis said.
"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," she added.
"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," she explained.
"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," Beth Levis said.
"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," she said.
