Alix Earle revealed she is hitting pause on her Hot Mess podcast and switching over to YouTube vlogs for the time being.
Alix Earle is off the air.
After her Hot Mess podcast was reportedly dropped by Alex Cooper‘s Unwell Network last month, Earle—who still owns Hot Mess—revealed she is taking a hiatus from podcasting and transitioning over to YouTube.
“I have to put a pause on podcasting right now for the foreseeable future,” she said in a March 26 TikTok video. “Don’t really want to get into the details of it all, and I kind of can’t get into the details of it all right now, but I’ve loved it so much, and I’m really proud of what I built with the podcast.”
Instead of dropping new podcast episodes, Earle explained that she’s pivoting to vlogging on YouTube.
“I don’t want to just leave you astray and not leave you with anything,” she continued. “I also think I would lose my mind. So, good news is I’m gonna be putting out weekly vlogs for the foreseeable future.”
Noting that the vlogs will be “a behind-the-scenes of my life,” she noted that the first video—out March 26—is about her family’s spring break while the next video will center on her experience at the Ultra Music Festival in Miami.
“There’s going to be no lack of content—it’s just going to be a little bit different,” the 24-year-old shared. “There’s been a lot going on over the past month, and although not in an ideal situation right now, we are gonna have a really good time. I’m a big believer in everything happens for a reason.”
Jason Lowrie/BFA.com/ShutterstockCooper, for her part, shared on Instagram Stories March 26, “Alix not being able to podcast has nothing to do with Unwell. Idk why she can’t/what’s going on.” She also noted that Unwell gave Earle her intellectual property.
Cooper quipped she’d “learned from the best,” in this case Barstool’s Dave Portnoy, alluding to Cooper’s own 2021 departure from his brand.
News broke in February that Cooper’s network had cut ties with Earle’s Hot Mess show amid rumors of a feud between the two media moguls.
The rift was fueled when Earle missed the Unwell Network Super Bowl event in New Orleans earlier in the month.
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