‘Call Her Daddy’ Host Alex Cooper Reveals She Bought Her Parents a House After Signing $125 Million Podcast Deal
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“Call Her Daddy” podcast host Alex Cooper got to play the role of Santa Claus a little bit early this year—revealing in a new festive episode of her hit show that she bought her parents their own house this past summer as a thank you for all their support over the years after she signed an historic $125 million deal with SiriusXM.
Cooper, 30, who hails from Pennsylvania but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, producer Matt Kaplan, opened up about the “emotional moment” that she told her parents about her property purchase plans, explaining that she approached her mom and dad with the idea earlier this year, admitting that they all broke down in tears during the conversation.
She told her listeners that she and Kaplan insisted to her parents, Bryan and Laurie, that they wanted “nothing in return” for the gesture, but did concede that moving her parents from their home in Pennsylvania out to L.A. would enable her to enlist their babysitting services in the future.
“My parents are officially moving to Los Angeles, California, and I bought them a house,” the former Barstool Sports star announced in the episode. “It makes me emotional thinking about it because when I started “Call Her Daddy,” I had somewhat of a vision of what I hoped this would turn into.”
“But to be able to go to my parents this past summer and be like, ‘I want to buy you guys a house, and I want to do this for you. And I’m so excited to be able to do this for you, and I want nothing in return. I just want your happiness, and I want you guys to enjoy it and thrive and maybe babysit sometimes if I have kids.’ It’s such a cool feeling,” she recalled.
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Cooper—who lives in a $10.7 million home in Studio City, CA, which she and Kaplan, 40, purchased together in 2022—said that purchasing the home for her parents was intended as a gesture of thanks for all the sacrifices they made for her while she was growing up.
“My mom and dad sacrificed every single f***ing day hauling me to different counties and getting on flights and taking me to soccer tournaments and taking me to private training sessions and taking me everywhere I wanted to go,” she said.
“It all led me to be able to do what I love for a living, and I literally wouldn’t be here without them. Buying them a house is like the least I could do, because they sacrificed financially, emotionally. They sacrificed with my other siblings in moments for me. So it feels really, really, really insane and incredible that I get to do this.”
According to property records, Laurie and Bryan had been living in a four-bedroom, 2.5-bathroom residence in Newtown, PA, which they purchased back in 1993. That home is currently not on the market and it is unclear whether they plan to sell their house when they relocate to Los Angeles officially.
Meanwhile Cooper and her husband have been living in their Studio City home for just over a year, having set about completely overhauling the property after they bought it, with the podcast host revealing to Architectural Digest that she handed over much of the creative control of the renovation to Kaplan.
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“I was a little overwhelmed by how much of an undertaking it would be, because [the home] was not our style whatsoever,” she told the publication of the couple’s new home. “It was so far from our taste that it allowed us to tailor every single room to our liking.
It was far from the first—or last—time that the pair would collaborate, having launched their own media company, Trending, together in 2023.
Cooper has also made some serious money moves of her own, inking a three-year deal with SiriusXM in August of this year that is estimated to be worth around $125 million, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
That figure is worth more than double the $60 million three-year deal she previously had with Spotify.
However the podcast host originally got her start at Barstool Sports, where she and her former “Call Her Daddy” host, Sofia Franklyn, first launched the podcast that has now made Cooper famous.
In the years since, Cooper has had a host of A-list stars appear as guests on the show, from Gwyneth Paltrow and Miley Cyrus to Mischa Barton and Heidi Klum.
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