Alix Earle Picks a Side in Public

Alix Earle has offered the sort of celebrity endorsement designed to look casual while doing the opposite. Cosmopolitan reports that Earle posted a TikTok of herself reading Sofia Franklyn’s memoir, Daddy Issues, a conspicuous show of support because Franklyn’s book revisits her split from former Call Her Daddy co-host Alex Cooper.

The post came with a joke sharp enough to count as staging. Earle added text reading, “There’s a first time for everything!!!” — a wink at an Interview magazine Q&A in which she said she had never read a book. Silly line, serious placement. In public-image terms, this is what a lean looks like when nobody wants to issue a statement.

That matters because Earle and Cooper have their own reported history. Cosmopolitan notes that Earle’s Hot Mess podcast was dropped by Cooper’s Unwell Network in February 2025. Variety had reported on the split amid feud rumors, and Us Weekly cited sources alleging that business disagreements ended the pair’s friendship. Those accounts remain reported claims, not a jointly signed declaration of war, but Earle reading Franklyn’s memoir was still legible enough to anyone who follows this corner of podcast media.

Franklyn’s book is not arriving as neutral literature floating above old internet grudges. In comments to Rolling Stone cited by Cosmopolitan, she described writing Daddy Issues as a personal reckoning after the breakdown of her partnership with Cooper. The original Call Her Daddy fallout became one of those media dramas that outgrew the people in it and hardened into IP history: co-hosts split, contracts became content, and one show turned into a large, expensive business. Cooper went on to continue Call Her Daddy solo and later signed major deals with Spotify and SiriusXM; Franklyn built Sofia With an F and has now turned the rupture into memoir.

So Earle’s TikTok is small in form but not in meaning. It is one creator with her own unresolved public break from Cooper visibly backing the woman Cooper left behind. No one had to caption it “alliance.” On social media, taste is often diplomacy with better lighting.