Inside Alex Cooper’s decision to dump UTA — including massive cash windfall from Hollywood power player
Here’s one less thing Alex Cooper and Alix Earle have in common.“Call Her Daddy” host, Cooper, has left her agency UTA and is headed to rival CAA, according to multiple sources.UTA continues to rep Cooper’s rival Earle as well as Dave Portnoy, the Barstool Sports founder who has also frequently publicly butted heads with Cooper. Cooper and Earle had an infamous business fallout in March 2025, at the time Cooper’s company dropped Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast after two years.
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Here’s one less thing Alex Cooper and Alix Earle have in common.“Call Her Daddy” host, Cooper, has left her agency UTA and is headed to rival CAA, according to multiple sources.UTA continues to rep Cooper’s rival Earle as well as Dave Portnoy, the Barstool Sports founder who has also frequently publicly butted heads with Cooper. Cooper and Earle had an infamous business fallout in March 2025, at the time Cooper’s company dropped Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast after two years. (Cooper also had a recent run of bad press — mostly stemming from her husband and business partner Matt Kaplan, and Cooper’s beverage brand is separately said to be shutting down.) But an insider insisted to us over the weekend that Cooper’s imminent move to CAA is thanks to a major influx of recent capital into her successful Unwell brand that will bring imminent new growth opportunities for the brand.“Alex and Alix split up business-wise more than a year ago — and both have worked with UTA over that time,” an insider close to Cooper said, pointing out that Cooper’s biz is now valued at $500 million with over 100 employees. The same insider insisted: “It’s very simple why Alex Cooper left UTA,” saying that while UTA focused on the podcasting, Unwell’s “partnerships, events, production — and the new creative agency as well as the WTSL investment — have all been done in-house.” WTSL — WME co-founder Patrick Whitesell‘s investment firm that’s focused on media — made a substantial investment in Unwell this month.
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- Here’s one less thing Alex Cooper and Alix Earle have in common.“Call Her Daddy” host, Cooper, has left her agency UTA and is headed to rival CAA, according to multiple sources.UTA continues to rep Cooper’s rival Earle as well as Dave Portnoy, the Barstool Sports founder who has also frequently publicly butted heads with Cooper. Cooper and Earle had an infamous business fallout in March 2025, at the time Cooper’s company dropped Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast after two years.
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