Tommy Smokes responds to bar photo weight jokes

It started, as these things always do, with a photo. Tommy Smokes — real name Tom Scibelli — got caught in a group shot at a bar, and within hours his own Barstool colleagues were piling on about how he looked in it.

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@VivaLaStool

Oh no Tommy!

The Yak jumped in first, joking that the photo needed to be deleted immediately — the kind of bit that only works between people who've been ripping on each other for years. It's not a real demand, just Barstool doing what Barstool does with any unflattering candid.

The Yak

@BarstoolYak

We need this pic of @TomScibelli deleted!

Most guys would've just laughed it off or fired back a joke of their own. Instead, Smokes did something you don't see often in this line of work — he actually owned it. No deflecting, no "bad lighting" excuse and nothing else.

He admitted he's at or near the heaviest he's ever been, while still allowing that the angle didn't do him any favors. Then he went a step further, saying he's considering major lifestyle changes across the board — not just diet talk, but a broader reset.

It's the kind of admission that tends to land better than a punchline. Barstool talent gets razzed on camera and online constantly, and the easy move is always to laugh along and move on. Smokes taking the joke seriously enough to talk about actually changing something is what turned a throwaway roast into a story worth watching — especially if he follows through and it becomes a running bit on the shows he's part of.