Sofia Franklyn Suggests Alex Cooper Leaked Secret Photo With Noah Syndergaard
A secret dinner photograph capturing podcast host Alex Cooper and professional baseball player Noah Syndergaard ended up on a sports gossip website in January 2018, and former Call Her Daddy co-host Sofia Franklyn is suggesting that Cooper herself leaked it.
The allegation appears in Sofia’s new memoir, Daddy Issues,
which was released on Tuesday, November 10. According to the book, the incident occurred around the time Sofia first met Cooper, 32, while Cooper and Syndergaard—a pitcher who previously played for the New York Mets—were experiencing a break in their on-again, off-again relationship.
According to Sofia’s account detailed in the memoir and reported by People, Noah Syndergaard invited Alex Cooper out to dinner while the couple was broken up. Cooper then asked Sofia to secretly photograph the two together. Sofia stated that Cooper claimed Syndergaard was such a s***
and explained that she wanted the photographic evidence in case she decided to send it to Noah’s mother.
Sofia agreed to take the picture without Noah knowing and subsequently sent it directly to Cooper. However, Sofia later discovered that the exact image had surfaced on the sports gossip website Busted Coverage in January 2018. Maintaining that she never submitted the image herself, Sofia questions how the website obtained it, writing in her memoir: Who has access to this photo besides me and her??
Sofia and Alex originally launched Call Her Daddy together in 2018, becoming close friends and roommates as the show grew in popularity. Their professional partnership collapsed in 2020 amid a high-profile contract dispute involving Barstool Sports. Cooper continued hosting the podcast solo, while Sofia launched her own show, Sofia with an F.
The new memoir revisits their friendship, podcast success, and the circumstances surrounding their split. During a subsequent appearance on The Bossticks
podcast, Sofia claimed that Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan, could attempt to discredit her account of their falling-out. Representatives for Cooper were contacted by media outlets including People and TMZ for comment regarding the leak allegation, but Cooper has not publicly responded to the specific claim.