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Barstool Sports’ raunchy hit podcast “Call Her Daddy” appears to be going through its own daddy issues. The sports blog behemoth launched the podcast “Call Her Daddy” in 2018 — and co-hosts Sofia Franklyn and Alexandra Cooper have turned it into a success with their eye-watering explicit oversharing about their dating and sex lives, described …
Barstool Sports’ raunchy hit podcast “Call Her Daddy” appears to be going through its own daddy issues.
The sports blog behemoth launched the podcast “Call Her Daddy” in 2018 — and co-hosts Sofia Franklyn and Alexandra Cooper have turned it into a success with their eye-watering explicit oversharing about their dating and sex lives, described by The Post’s Kirsten Fleming as using “lowbrow language that makes Playboy letters look like Chekov.”
Now that their podcast is a smutty success — and, sources say, could potentially make the co-hosts millions — we’re told that the ladies want to take their talents, and the show, elsewhere. But since Barstool owns the rights to the podcast, there’s a struggle brewing.
While the nasty brouhaha rages, the weekly show has gone off the air — there hasn’t been a new episode since April 8 — and the Barstool name has been scrubbed from their Instagram, which has 1.2 million followers. Another source says the hosts have been propositioned by big-name sponsors and other media behemoths to expand their bawdy brand.
The pair even posted an (uncharacteristically coy) message, alluding to the behind-the-scenes battle.
“We are always 100% transparent with the Daddy Gang but legally we can’t speak out yet,” it read. “What are we will say is … We will never f–king leave you Daddy Gang. The minute we can speak, we will.”
They also started the hashtag #FreeTheFathers to their 250,000 Twitter followers.
The pair has not addressed the battle on the podcast, but they seemed to have been sending subtle signals with their recent shows. An episode back in January was titled, apparently apropos of nothing, “Prisoners of Azkaban” — a reference, it seems, to the “Harry Potter” book and the hosts’ supposed shackles to Barstool. Subsequent episodes were dubbed, “It’s over,” and “We had fun.”
Cooper and a rep for Barstool Sports didn’t get back to us.
