{"id":496032,"date":"2026-02-28T18:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496032\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:03:09","slug":"livvy-dunne-photobombs-interview-with-lsu-coach-lane-kiffin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/496032\/","title":{"rendered":"Livvy Dunne photobombs interview with LSU coach Lane Kiffin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olivia \u201cLivvy\u201d Dunne couldn\u2019t help herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The LSU gymnastics alum didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to photobomb an SEC Network interview with new head football coach Lane Kiffin during the team\u2019s home match against Alabama on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne and former LSU gymnastics teammate Aleah Finnegan popped into the right of the screen as Kiffin was asked about his time at the school after being <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/29\/sports\/lane-kiffins-ole-miss-lsu-decision-apparently-made-as-college-football-waits\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hired away from Ole Miss<\/a> in late November.<\/p>\n<p>Finnegan and Dunne both made silly faces while doing a little dance with their thumbs and pointer fingers extended behind Kiffin, which appeared to be an L for LSU.<\/p>\n<p>Dunne, a Sports Illustrated Swimsuit alum, also stuck her tongue out at one point before she and Finnegan went their separate ways on screen.<\/p>\n<p>Both Dunne and Kiffin had some fun with the moment on social media afterward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The New Jersey native and girlfriend of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/24\/sports\/paul-skenes-will-make-multiple-starts-in-2026-wbc-with-a-caveat\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pirates ace Paul Skenes<\/a> added the hashtag #JustDifferent, along with three crying laughing faces, to the video in her Instagram Stories.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin, who appeared unaware of what happened initially, jokingly called Dunne and Finnegan \u201cClout chasers\u201d in a post he tagged both of them in on X.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"195\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Screenshot-2026-02-28-081234.png\" alt=\"Oliva \u201cLivvy\u201d Dunne couldn\u2019t help herself. &#10;\" class=\"wp-image-38631858\" style=\"width:655px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:2.08717949;display:block\"  \/>Livvy Dunne and Aleah Finnegan photobomb Lane Kiffin. @TigerDroppings\/X<\/p>\n<p>Dunne and Finnegan were both members of the Tigers gymnastics team that won the national championship in 2024.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Kiffin is taking over an LSU team that fired coach Brian Kelly in November following a 5-3 start after three-plus seasons and finished 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly was 34-14 overall at the school.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.44632768;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38632089\" width=\"853\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/lsu-tigers-gymnast-olivia-dunne-9689139.jpg\" alt=\"LSU Tigers gymnast Olivia Dunne warming up during the NCAA Women's National Gymnastics Tournament Championship.\" class=\"wp-image-38632089\"  \/>Livvy Dunne during her LSU time. USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con<\/p>\n<p>The former Ole Miss coach is coming off seeing his team have one of the best seasons in program history at 13-2, losing a 31-27 heartbreaker to Miami in the CFP semifinals with Kiffin having already taken the LSU job.<\/p>\n<p>The next time we might see Dunne at a sporting event could be the Pirates\u2019 Opening Day game against the Mets with Skenes on the mound <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/02\/27\/sports\/mets-tab-freddy-peralta-to-start-opening-day-vs-pirates-after-blockbuster-offseason-trade\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against Freddy Peralta on March 26<\/a> at Citi Field.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Olivia \u201cLivvy\u201d Dunne couldn\u2019t help herself.\u00a0 The LSU gymnastics alum didn\u2019t miss the opportunity to photobomb an SEC&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":496033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[1607,399,43305,6342,398,396,397,10904,99,1625],"class_list":{"0":"post-496032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-lane-kiffin","11":"tag-lsu-tigers","12":"tag-ncaa","13":"tag-ncaa-football","14":"tag-ncaafootball","15":"tag-olivia-dunne","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/496033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}