Tom Brady made his runway modeling debut in Demna’s Gucci cruise show in May, and he just strengthened his place in Gucci lore as a face of Demna’s fall-winter 2026 collection.
As such, Brady spoke exclusively GQ, and Jeremy Freed asked the seven-time Super Bowl champion whether he’d ever wear a suit without a shirt in his real life.
“For my broadcasting, I’m usually in a suit, but I don’t know how my producer and director at Fox would handle it if I came in without a shirt on,” Brady said. “I’m not sure how the football audience would love that. I take my jacket off a lot during the game, so that wouldn’t turn out great.”
That doesn’t mean we should rule out seeing Brady in a leather-on-leather ensemble in the NFL on Fox booth this fall, however.
“I’d never really done leather on leather before, but there are some leather pants in my closet now,” Brady said, in response to whether his runway strut was his first introduction to leather on leather. “I thought, ‘Damn, that’s actually really comfortable.’ I could see why people wear this. It’s definitely a different look. It felt more like a uniform — there was a rigidity and a structure to it, like my football uniform.”
As for Brady’s assessment that his Fox Sports bosses wouldn’t appreciate a less conventional look on Sundays, indications have been that Brady can do pretty much whatever he wants.
Charlotte Wilder and Madeline Hill recently broke down Brady’s perplexing public image this year.
“Having worked at Fox Sports, they gas their talent up more than any network that has ever existed,” Wilder said on The Sports Gossip Show last month. “They also surround their talent with yes-men. They don’t say no to the people … they deem important. They create an environment where everything is enabled. No one says, ‘Should we think about this for a second?’”
“For the people that they treat this way, they make them feel as if they are invincible,” Wilder continued. “They way that Fox Sports conducts their coverage is the WWE of sports broadcasting.”
With GQ, Brady said he’d “never say never to doing anything” in regard to his future in fashion campaigns. Why rule out a fashion statement or two on America’s Game of the Week?
Brady will begin his third season alongside Kevin Burkhardt in Fox’s top NFL booth when the Washington Commanders visit the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, Sept. 13.
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