Travis Hunter and Leanna Linney
Courtesy of Lina Lenny/InstagramAs the controversy continued to build on their relationship, he won the Heisman Trophy Travis Hunter And his fiancée, Liana LennyThey both apologized for the narration.
Hunter, 21, a star duo at the University of Colorado, and Lenny, 23, deactivated their Instagram and TikTok accounts over the weekend. the Twitch channel Belonging to Hunter, where he routinely broadcasts live, is still active.
The couple made the decision to cut the cord on social media in the face of the growing controversy surrounding their pending marriage.
The conversation shifted into overdrive at the Heisman Trophy ceremony on Dec. 14 — where Hunter was recognized as the best player in college football — when viewers at home criticized Lenee for not standing up when Hunter's name was called.
When Travis Hunter won the 2024 Heisman Trophy, he had the best support system in his fiancée Leanna Lenee. “Winning chicken dinner,” Leni wrote on Instagram in December 2024, sharing photos from Hunter's party. She added in a follow-up post: “They are crazy, it makes them even crazier!!!” The Heisman Trophy is given annually to the best player in (…)
Videos from Heisman weekend have also been circulating showing Lenee getting upset with Hunter, with fans believing it was over because he wasn't paying enough attention to her at the Adidas pop-up store.
Monday December 16 Lenny I moved to my now deactivated TikTok account To address multiple disputes.
“The things I see people making up are really crazy things, because that's not what happened,” Leni said in the video. “I think people find every little thing and try to make it into something it's not. Bird-brained individuals just accept what they see online.
Lainey tried to explain her behavior at the Heisman ceremony, simply saying that she wasn't quite sure how to act appropriately.
“It makes me so angry because anyone who knows me knows that I support Travis in every win, in everything he does,” Lenny said. “Because I really like this guy. He's perfect in my eyes.”
Liana Linney and Travis Hunter
Courtesy of Lina Lenny/InstagramShe continued: “When his name was called, if you watch the video, you can see me (starting to stand up), but his mother did not get up. I thought to myself: Oh, maybe I won't wake up. “Maybe I'll just sit here with her.” So I sat there.”
Lenny also denied that she and Hunter had any kind of heated discussion at the pop-up store.
Elsewhere in the video, Leni responded to the claim that Hunter was in a relationship when the two started dating.
“I'm not trashing the house,” she said. “I'm not a side piece. I don't support any of that stuff. I support women. I would never do that to another woman because I would never want that done to me.”
In fact, Lenny revealed that she left Hunter's initial correspondence with her unanswered for months Because of his relationship status at the time.
“Travis, when he first messaged me — when we first met, I said I left him in my DMs for two months and people said, ‘Oh, I left him in my DMs until I found out who he was.’ And Lenny said, ‘That’s not true at all,’” Lenny said. The real reason Travis sat in my DMs for two months is because he DMed me when he had a girlfriend.”
“I knew right away he had a partner,” Lenny continued. “So I got the message out and he sat there until he was single.”
In the seven-minute TikTok video, Leni also turned her attention to a previous comment she made about Hunter not being her “type.”
“I didn't mean cuteness,” Leni said in the TikTok video. “I don't have a body type, period. No two guys I've ever dated look alike. My first one was a white cowboy. My second one was a Mexican soccer player. And then I dated a black guy who's a rapper on SoundCloud.
“I've never dated the same physical type,” Leni continued. I don't care what people look like or what they can do for me. I date people based on their character, how they honor God and how they treat the people around them.
Hunter, who is widely expected to be one of the top 5 picks in the 2025 NFL Draft, and Lenee made their relationship Instagram official in February 2022 and got engaged two years later.
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After the Heisman weekend, Hunter took to Twitch and She revealed that Leni cried herself to sleep After the backlash.
“Y'all hate me and then you hate my girl,” Hunter said on December 15. “Bro, I feel the same as you. We're inseparable, bro. We're with each other. If she's hurting, of course I'll be hurting. If I'm hurting, of course she'll be hurting.”
The pair had the support of the Colorado quarterback, Shedor Sanderswho criticized athletes and other celebrities for speaking out about Hunter publicly.
“All you athletes, entertainers, entertainers, etc., if you're really trying to connect, know how to connect with him or anyone around you,” Sanders, 22, wrote. via X On Sunday, December 22nd. “At this point, you'll just be posting to the algorithm trying to look cool.”
