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Dave Portnoy On How Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn Left Barstool

Dave Portnoy On How Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn Left Barstool

Dave Portnoy revisited Alex Cooper and Sofia Franklyn‘s acrimonious exit from Barstool Sports, with the media mogul revealing that the former Call Her Daddy co-hosts had a plan to say they were sexually harassed in order to get out of their contracts. In a new interview with the WSJ Magazine published on Friday, Portnoy discussed his new memoir Cancel Me If You Can which touches on podcasters Cooper and Franklyn, firstly on how they came to join the performatively masculine Barstool empire and then how they ended up exiting in a blaze of gossip and fury. Call Her Daddy was started by roommates Cooper and Franklyn in October 2018. Following incredible immediate growth, a month later Barstool added the podcast to its lineup of sports focused shows. Despite Call Her Daddy being the polar opposite of the usual Barstool fare, Portnoy says in the interview that Cooper and Franklyn’s pitch struck him as something “different.” “It’s not my cup of tea but I know I haven’t seen it before. Let’s give it a shot,” he …