MW Alex Cooper signs a $125 million deal for 'Call Her Daddy' podcast, and buys her parents a house in L.A.

By Charlie Lankston

Her parents will move from Pennsylvania to L.A.

"Call Her Daddy" podcast host Alex Cooper got to play the role of Santa Claus a little bit early this year-revealing in a new festive episode of her hit show that she bought her parents their own house this past summer as a thank you for all their support over the years after she signed an historic $125 million deal with SiriusXM $(SIRI)$.

Cooper, 30, who hails from Pennsylvania but now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, producer Matt Kaplan, opened up about the "emotional moment" that she told her parents about her property purchase plans, explaining that she approached her mom and dad with the idea earlier this year, admitting that they all broke down in tears during the conversation.

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She told her listeners that she and Kaplan insisted to her parents, Bryan and Laurie, that they wanted "nothing in return" for the gesture, but did concede that moving her parents from their home in Pennsylvania out to L.A. would enable her to enlist their babysitting services in the future.

"My parents are officially moving to Los Angeles, California, and I bought them a house," the former Barstool Sports star announced in the episode. "It makes me emotional thinking about it because when I started "Call Her Daddy," I had somewhat of a vision of what I hoped this would turn into."

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"But to be able to go to my parents this past summer and be like, 'I want to buy you guys a house, and I want to do this for you. And I'm so excited to be able to do this for you, and I want nothing in return. I just want your happiness, and I want you guys to enjoy it and thrive and maybe babysit sometimes if I have kids.' It's such a cool feeling," she recalled.

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Cooper-who lives in a $10.7 million home in Studio City, Calif., which she and Kaplan, 40, purchased together in 2022-said that purchasing the home for her parents was intended as a gesture of thanks for all the sacrifices they made for her while she was growing up.

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