Call her father Host Alex Cooper is facing another bad headline.
According to a new report in Bloomberg, there has been turnover and uneasiness among employees at Trending, a company that includes Cooper’s Unwell Network podcast as well as ACE Entertainment, the production company started by Cooper’s husband, Matt Kaplan.
According to the report, employees threatened to quit or quit over Kaplan’s alleged yelling and berating of crew and staff. In one example, in Cooper Bad Winter Games, A YouTube program where influencers confronted each other in physical activities and drinking games, Bloomberg wrote that Kaplan “berated staff,” which led to a number of formal complaints.
Cooper did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The report comes in the wake of an alleged feud between Cooper and Alex Earle, the show’s host total chaos, One of the first podcasts to join the Unwell Network in 2023. Earle’s podcast left the network in February 2025, sparking speculation about a rift between the creators.
The parting of the ways was not initially addressed, but in an interview with Wall Street Journal Around that time, Earle said the departure was “behind the scenes, and it was a bit of a hot mess.”
Recently, Earle reposted a video criticizing Cooper’s business sense and interviewing people in vulnerable times.
On April 13 on TikTok, Cooper responded, saying she was “tired of waking up” and seeing Earl posting “fake drama.”
“Hey girl, the passive aggressive reposting and likes and commenting on stuff — I gotta call you out here,” Cooper said in the video. “You’ll need to be specific and only say what you want to say about me. There’s no NDA. No one’s stopping you. Stop hiding behind others and say it yourself.”
Earl then responded on social media, saying: “Okay!!”
cooper podcast, Call her father, It was the fourth most popular podcast in the world in 2025, according to Spotify’s year-end list. It closed a multi-year, $125 million deal in 2024 to bring its podcast and network to Spotify’s SiriusXM.
