“Call Her Daddy” Host Alex Cooper Revealed She Recently Turned Down An $8 Million Brand Deal

The duo soon realized that they were “making pennies compared to what the show was making for Barstool,” and in 2020, they renegotiated their business arrangement.

Barstool’s owner, Dave Portnoy, eventually told Alex and Sofia that if they stayed with the company for one more year, he would give them Call Her Daddy’s IP — meaning that they would own the podcast’s brand and show archive.

Sofia did not want to go ahead with this deal, and ended up stepping away from the podcast while Alex stuck it out. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter about their respective decisions back in October, Alex recalled: “On [Sofia’s] side, she was like: ‘I think we could start a show called ‘Girls in the Bathroom,’ or whatever, ‘and it will be just as good.’ And I was like: ‘That may be true. But in my personal opinion, I’m not giving up this IP. I don’t want to start over.’”

“When [Dave] offered the IP along with not much money for one more year, I didn’t give a shit about the money. I was like: ‘This IP is a gold mine. I’m going to be a multimillionaire and will be set for life if I just stay one year,’” she went on. “I will never judge my ex co-host and former partner for making the decision she did, she really saw the lane of not wanting to work another year for Barstool, and I didn’t, and that’s business.”