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Alix Earle is celebrating Thanksgiving with her famJust two days after placing first runner-up on the season 34 Dancing with the Stars, the influencer and New Jersey native, who had been living in L.A. for the duration of her run on the show, celebrated the holiday California-style with her family The influencer also shared how she’s been coping since DWTS’s end in a TikTok video posted on Thanksgiving Day

Alix Earle is celebrating Thanksgiving family-style.

Just two days after finishing up her time on season 34 of Dancing with the Stars, Earle celebrated the holiday alongside her family.

The New Jersey native and influencer shared snapshots of her family’s California Thanksgiving in a Nov. 28 Instagram dump, that she captioned, “a much needed thanksgiving.”

Joined by her extended family members in the photos, including mother Alisha Earle and stepmother Ashley Dupré, the influencer donned a fittingly fall-colored yellow sweater, pairing the look with plum-colored. boots. Earle also posed alongside her pitbull Asia, a dog she has been fostering since early 2025.

Alix Earle and Robert Irwin wait for results to be called during the “Dancing with the Stars” finale.

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Earle’s celebration comes days after she wrapped up her run on the dance competition show, where she ultimately placed first runner-up.

In a video posted to her TikTok account on Thanksgiving Day, the influencer also shared how she’s been coping with the end of the season. In the video Earle can be seen eating cold soup from the can with the caption, “I’m going thru a dance breakup don’t text.”

Notably missing from the social media mogul’s photo carousel was her boyfriend Braxton Berrios.

As a result of her time on Dancing with the Stars and Berrios’s schedule as the tight end for the Houston Texans, the couple spent most of the season apart, reuniting for Berrios’s 30th birthday in Los Angeles, when Earle surprised him by helping to fly out members of his family and friends to celebrate.

Last week, while Earle was preparing for the DWTS finale, she teamed up with other cast members and fellow influencers to package more than 3,000 meals for Thanksgiving for her Serving in Heels event.

Last year, Earle celebrated Thanksgiving in true WAG-style, cozying up in a suite at Lambeau Field with 45 other members of her family as they tuned in to watch the Miami Dolphins (the team Berrios was playing for at the time) take on the Green Bay Packers.

Alix Earle.

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While Earle was a devoted Dolphins fan at the time, the Hot Mess host revealed in a get-ready-with-me video shared on her TikTok Nov. 28, 2024, that her mom’s side of the family is from Wisconsin so they’re all Green Bay fans. 

Strangely absent from the festivities that year was none other than Berrios himself, who, despite being a member of the Dolphins, was unable to make it to the game.

The podcast host explained that though Berrios’ family was initially going to join them in the suite, his season-ending injury earlier in October of that year made him unable to travel to the game even as a fan. 

Alix Earle surprises Braxton Berrios for his 30th birthday.

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His absence was bittersweet for one member of Earle’s family, she explains, who was “secretly probably happy” because of her allegiance to the Green Bay Packers. 

“I was like ‘grandma, you cannot root against Braxton — you have to wear Dolphins stuff,’” Earle recalled telling her grandmother. “And now, she’s like ‘I can wear my Packers gear.’”

In one video posted the day after Thanksgiving, Earle showed how grateful she was that her entire family had been able to celebrate, including her grandmother. “My grandma said ‘this is a once in a lifetime experience thank you so much’ and i lost it,'” she wrote in the caption of a video. “I’m so grateful we got to do this i was crying all night. & ty to Poppi for making this possible omg 😭🥹.”