Alex Cooper Calls Out Brianna LaPaglia for Labeling Her a 'Mean Girl,' Shares Private DMs amid Alix Earle Feud
Alex Cooper Calls Out Brianna LaPaglia for Labeling Her a 'Mean Girl,' Shares Private DMs amid Alix Earle Feud
Zoey Lyttle, Tabitha Parent, Luke ChinmanWed, April 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM UTC
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Alex Cooper; Brianna Chickenfry.Credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty; Gilbert Flores/GG2025/Penske Media via Getty -
Days after calling out Alix Earle on TikTok, Alex Cooper addressed Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia in a new series of Instagram Stories
In a final Stories upload, Cooper debunked rumors that her rift with Earle is a "PR stunt"
Following Cooper's posts, LaPaglia responded by saying Earle previously told her Cooper is a "very, very mean person"
Days after calling out Alix Earle, Alex Cooper is coming for fellow content creator Brianna "Chickenfry" LaPaglia.
On Wednesday, April 15, the Call Her Daddy host posted several messages addressed to LaPaglia, who previously worked at Barstool Sports, the media company that originally produced Cooper's hit podcast.
"This girl on girl s--- needs to stop. While Alix tries to get her story together, let me address Brianna Chickenfry, who is adding onto the fake narrative and dog pile. Brianna, you coming online saying I'm a mean girl, that I'm going to get destroyed, in peoples comments saying l hate Alex Cooper," Cooper wrote in a text post on her Instagram Stories. "Here are the facts. I have never met you in my life. The only communication we have ever had together is through dm."
The following Stories posts included screenshots of their direct messages, which began with LaPaglia writing to Cooper about something Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy said on an episode of their BFFs podcast, which LaPaglia used to co-host with Portnoy and Josh Richards.
"Hi Dave just got on bffs and said you hate me so wanted to dm you before the episode comes out and everyone goes insane Imao but I'm so sorry if when I said I haven't listened to call her daddy it came off rude, always speak highly of you They cut clips to make me look like a c---, you're the blue print," read LaPaglia's message to Cooper.
Alex Cooper's Instagram Stories post on April 15, 2026.Credit: instagram
In her response, Cooper denied saying anything negative about the Plan Bri Uncut host. The Unwell media network founder even said she told Portnoy "how great" LaPaglia was doing at his company. Cooper added, "I'll kill Dave."
She went as far as to send LaPaglia screenshots of her texts to Portnoy, calling him out for "starting drama." The two women appeared to end their conversation on a positive note and continued to exchange niceties in their DMs.
After the screenshots, Cooper uploaded another text post addressed to LaPaglia. "I never invited you on Call Her Daddy. Back during the Zach Bryan situation, I sent you a message of support," wrote Cooper, referring to LaPaglia's public breakup with the country singer in October 2024.
Cooper continued to mention LaPaglia's former collaborator, Grace O'Malley, joining the Unwell network in December 2024. Speaking directly to LaPaglia again, the Golden Globe nominee insisted she and O'Malley "never spoke negatively of you. Nothing negative happened during that time between Unwell, myself or you."
"So speaking of mean girls... have never met you in my life. What I just showed is the only interaction we've ever had. And you hate me? Wow. Please go back and read the dms. That has never been the nature of our relationship," Cooper concluded. (In another Stories post, she clarified that she was indeed "in [LaPaglia's] presence" once in 2021, when she appeared on a podcast with her.)
Cooper brought it back to Earle once again at the end of the post, adding, "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 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," LaPaglia said. "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, Earle and Portnoy did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.
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Alex Cooper; Alix Earle.Credit: Weiss Eubanks/NBCUniversal via Getty,Alexander Tamargo/Getty
Cooper's posts follow her TikTok upload on April 13. The podcaster called out Earle by name, claiming that she was starting “fake drama” to “distract” from other things going on in her life.
“Hey girl, the passive-aggressive reposts and the likes and the commenting on things — I've got to call you out here,” said Cooper in her video. “You're going to need to get specific and just say what you've got to say about me. There's no NDA. No one is stopping you. Stop hiding behind other people and just say it yourself.”
Hours later, Earle left a comment on the post, writing simply, "Okay on it!!"
A representative for Earle did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment at the time of Cooper's post.
On Tuesday, April 14, Earle posted a video of her reaction to Cooper's initial 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 could be seen asking her friend as the video played, to which they responded, “No.” Cooper could be heard in the video asking the influencer to “say it herself— what's the beef?” to which Earle replied with a smile, “okay,” before laughing.
After Cooper's video was done, Earle could be heard commenting to her friends, “Wait, that just literally made my whole day.” Over the video, she wrote, “if you're wondering, this is how I was woken up in the morning after Coachella.”
Social media has long speculated about tensions between the two content creators, but things 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.”
Alex Cooper and Alix Earle at an Unwell fan screening in N.Y.C. on Sept. 13, 2023.Credit: Gotham/GC Images
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 latest 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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