Alex Cooper is reflecting on her latest successes.
The host of the favored Name Her Daddy podcast was tapped by Peacock to be one in all their hosts on the Olympics this summer season.
That is all in opposition to the backdrop of Alex signing a cope with SiriusXM to convey Name Her Daddy to the platform for $125 million beginning in 2025. That is her second massive payday for the podcast, having beforehand struck a $60-million three-year cope with Spotify in 2021.
However there was a time when Alex wasn’t the one podcaster related to Name Her Daddy. The truth is, in a Hollywood Reporter cowl story on Wednesday, she mirrored on her headline-making enterprise separation from her authentic co-host, Sofia Franklyn, years in the past in mild of her latest successes.
Alex and Sofia started Name Her Daddy in 2018 after they have been roommates. The podcast was rapidly acquired by Barstool Sports activities that yr and have become successful. Nevertheless, following a enterprise disagreement with Barstool’s proprietor Dave Portnoy, Sofia left the present in 2020, whereas Alex opted to proceed solo.
THR requested Alex if Sofia got here to thoughts whereas signing her profitable SiriusXM deal. “I feel much less in regards to the particular particular person. The thought is: I’m so comfortable that I trusted myself and fought for this IP [the Call Her Daddy brand and show archive],” she informed the publication. “As a result of I’ll always remember the day [Barstool founder] Dave Portnoy provided us that IP on a rooftop and I used to be so elated and being like, ‘I’ll keep one other yr. I’ll do no matter it takes. I would like that IP.’”
She stated she stayed as a result of she had put “a lot sweat fairness” into CHD; nonetheless, she claimed Sofia had a special perspective.
“On [Sofia’s] aspect, she was like, ‘I feel we might begin a present known as ‘Ladies within the Toilet,’ or no matter, ‘and will probably be simply nearly as good.’ And I used to be like, ‘Which may be true. However in my private opinion, I’m not giving up this IP. I don’t need to begin over'” Alex stated.
“Thank God I noticed the price of the IP and the emblems and the catalog. That’s what involves my thoughts. The minute I signal a brand new deal, each time, I textual content Dave Portnoy a little bit thank-you,” she continued.
Alex additionally defined that she and Sofia have been all for renegotiating with Barstool as a result of they have been “making pennies in comparison with what the present was making for Barstool.”
She later added that she does not choose Sofia for exiting the podcast.
Alex stated of Dave’s provide on the time, “So when he provided the IP together with not a lot cash for yet another yr, I did not give a shit in regards to the cash. I used to be like, ‘This IP is a gold mine. I’m going to be a multimillionaire and can be set for all times if I simply keep one yr.'”
“I’ll by no means choose my ex co-host and former associate for making the choice she did,” she continued. “She actually noticed the lane of not eager to work one other yr for Barstool, and I did not, and that’s enterprise.”
BuzzFeed has reached out to a consultant for Sofia for remark.