Call Her Daddy host Alex Cooper is facing another bad headline.
According to a new report in Bloomberg, there’s been employee turnover and uneasiness amongst the staff at Trending, a company which encompasses Cooper’s Unwell Network of podcasts as well as ACE Entertainment, the production company started by Cooper’s husband Matt Kaplan.
Per the report, staff have threatened to quit or walk off the job due to Kaplan allegedly yelling and berating crew and staff members. In one example, at Cooper’s Unwell Winter Games, a YouTube program in which influencers faced off against each other in physical activities and drinking games, Bloomberg wrote that Kaplan “berated the staff,” resulting in a number of formal complaints.
Cooper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report comes on the heels of an alleged feud between Cooper and Alix Earle, host of Hot Mess, one of the first podcasts to join the Unwell Network in 2023. Earle’s podcast left the network in February 2025, raising speculation about a feud between the two creators.
The parting of ways was initially not addressed, but in an interview with the Wall Street Journal around that time, Earle said the departure was “behind the scenes, a little bit of a hot mess.”
More recently, Earle reposted a video criticizing Cooper’s business sense and interviewing of subjects in times of vulnerability.
In an April 13 TikTok, Cooper responded saying she was “tired of waking up” and seeing Earle spreading “fake drama.”
“Hey girl, the passive aggressive reposts and the likes and the commenting on things — I’ve got to call you out here,” Cooper said in the video. “You’re going to need to get specific and just say what you’ve got to say about me. There’s no NDA. No one is stopping you. Stop hiding behind other people and just say it yourself.”
Earle then responded on social media, “Okay on it!!”
Cooper’s podcast, Call Her Daddy, was the fourth most popular podcast in the world in 2025, according to Spotify’s year-end list. She struck a $125 million multiyear deal in 2024 to bring her podcast and the network to SiriusXM from Spotify.
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