The 'Call Her Daddy' host initially called out the 'Dancing with the Stars' finalist in a TikTok posted on April 13
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- On April 15, Alex Cooper dismissed rumors that her feud with Alix Earle is a “PR stunt” as the Call Her Daddy host called out fellow creator Brianna “Chickenfry” LaPaglia for calling her a “mean girl”
- Cooper’s series of Instagram Stories comes days after she posted a TikTok accusing Earle of creating “fake drama” and a “fake narrative” between the two of them
- Earle initially responded to Cooper’s post by simply writing, “Okay on it!!” Later, the Dancing with the Stars finalist shared a TikTok showing a recording of her reaction to Cooper’s video
Alex Cooper maintains that her beef with Alix Earle is as real as it gets.
On Wednesday, April 15, the Call Her Daddy host posted several messages addressed to fellow Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia, calling her out for dubbing Cooper a "mean girl," among other comments LaPaglia allegedly made. The series of Instagram Stories began with Cooper writing, "This girl on girl s— needs to stop. While Alix tries to get her story together, let me address Brianna Chickenfry."
The Golden Globe nominee's pointed Instagram Stories come days after her TikTok post aimed at Earle on April 13. In her video, Cooper claimed the Dancing with the Stars finalist was starting “fake drama” to “distract” from other things going on in her life.
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Earle kept her initial reply simple, commenting, "Okay on it!!" The following day, she posted a video of her reaction to Cooper's post. In the recording, two of Earle's friends could be seen entering her bedroom and waking her up as one of them told her, “We have to show you a TikTok.” They then appeared to play Cooper's TikTok video as Earle sat up in bed to get a closer look.
“Is it funny?” Earle asked her friend as the video played, and they responded, “No.” After Cooper's video was done playing, Earle told her friends, “Wait, that just literally made my whole day.”
Since their long-rumored feud came to a head this week, many have wondered about the authenticity of the drama. However, Cooper put the questions to rest in one of the final slides of her April 15 Instagram Stories. After Cooper concluded her discussion of LaPaglia, Cooper wrote, "Now back to Alix. And no this is not a pr stunt."
In the minutes that followed Cooper's posts, LaPaglia responded on her own Instagram Stories. She began the video by dismissing "the people that are saying this Alex-on-Alix crime is like a f—ing PR stunt."
"Please guys, get a brain cell. I work at Barstool, so Dave [Portnoy] introduced me to Alex Cooper. I was a fan of Alex Cooper before I knew the wrath of f—ing Alex Cooper and what she does to people and how she treats people," said LaPaglia. "I am friends with Alix Earle. Alix Earle told me everything that transpired between those two two years ago at the Super Bowl. She told me everything. It didn't happen between them at the Super Bowl, but that's when she told me everything."
She continued, "From what Alix Earle told me, Alex Cooper is a very, very mean person. Or maybe when Dave called me when Alex signed Grace to Unwell, and she called Dave and said, 'I don't give a f— about Grace, I don't give a f— about Brianna, all I care about is making money.' Yeah, maybe my f—ing narrative switched on you after I found things out about you. I used to be a fan."
Representatives for LaPaglia, Cooper, Portnoy and Earle did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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Social media has long speculated about tensions between Earle and Cooper, but the drama came to a head days before the bombshell video. Earle reposted a video on TikTok of another content creator calling Cooper “so awful” for telling people's stories when they are at their lowest.
Rumors of beef between the internet stars began when Earle's podcast Hot Mess exited Unwell, the media network started and operated by Cooper, in March 2025. (Earle was also one of the first creators to be signed to the startup in 2023.)
That month, Cooper addressed Earle's exit in a post on TikTok, writing, “Alix not being able to podcast has nothing to do with Unwell. Idk why she can't/what's going on. Unwell gave her everything back she owns her IP.”
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Two months later, when asked about the end of her relationship with Unwell in an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Earle said, “That was, behind the scenes, a little bit of a hot mess.”
Earle also seemed to hint at a potential feud in August with an eyebrow-raising comment on her TikTok page. When a fan asked her to “tell us what happened with Alex Cooper,” the content creator wrote back, “How much time do you have?"
In her April 13 video, Cooper claimed that Earle was creating a “fake narrative” surrounding the feud.
“I know what happened, and so do you, so talk — unless the fake narrative that you're creating happens to be way more interesting than the truth,” she said. “I have nothing to hide when it comes to you and me. Unless you actually have something to say, I'm out. This is over.”
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