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The Anatomy of an Alex Cooper Interview


The Call Her Daddy host uses a consistent set of tactics to charm and disarm her guests.

Bieber, the original “clean girl” whose most notable traits are that she is a wife and a Christian with a scrupulously maintained physique and also that she is — genuinely no offense meant here, but — sort of boring, divulges what it was like for the public to cast her in the role of “other woman” to her husband’s ex-girlfriend (Selena Gomez, though never mentioned by name). Part of the reason she’s able to get Gwyneth Paltrow to share whether Brad Pitt or Ben Affleck is better in bed (spoiler: it’s the former, although the latter is allegedly more “technically excellent”) or the famously boundary-setting Chappell Roan to reveal her new relationship, is that Call Her Daddy has always been a podcast about sex. When Madix went on Call Her Daddy in 2023 to divulge what it was like to be at the center of the biggest cheating scandal in reality-TV history(the Vanderpump Rules star’s boyfriend of nine years, Tom Sandoval, was caught having an affair with her close friend and co-star), Cooper asked about the end of their relationship.

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