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What’s Going on With Joan Smalls and Candice Swanepoel? Let’s Break Down the Alleged VS Angel Drama

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They may have walked down the 2026 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show runway together, but rumor has it that OG Angels and longtime friends Joan Smalls and Candice Swanepoel are on the outs...and it may have to do with Tom Brady. Confused? Same!! Let’s get into it.

Fans became suspicious when the two (who, as you might recall, just last year, starred in an Anne Klein campaign celebrating their friendship) failed to post any pics together from the 2026 VS Fashion Show. As captured by screenshots, someone slid into the comments section on Joan’s October 20 Instagram post to ask, “You are not friend[s] anymore with Candice?”

Joan’s (alleged) response, as captured by Deuxmoi: “im not friends with backstabbers.”

According to screenshots , Joan continued on in another since-deleted comment, adding, “There is no girl code with some people. And the disrespect and carelessness in how they treat you is so unimaginable. There’s no going back. Some people lack humility and moral compass.…

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