Alex Cooper rose to fame because the host of the mega-popular podcast “Name Her Daddy.” His firm is now making ready to premiere its first unique competitors collection, that includes a gaggle of 16 “polarizing” actuality stars and digital influencers mixing it up.
Cooper’s Unwell Community has introduced “Unwell Winter Video games,” set to premiere subsequent week on YouTube. The four-episode collection brings the 16 contestants collectively in “a luxurious cabin in Park Metropolis, Utah” to compete in a collection of “psychological and bodily challenges over 4 days,” in keeping with the corporate.
Contestants embody Dakota Mortensen of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” who not too long ago made headlines over home violence allegations in opposition to his ex-girlfriend Taylor Frankie Paul. (ABC suspended Season 22 of “The Bachelorette” with Paul, after a 2023 video surfaced exhibiting her attacking Mortensen.) One other solid member is Demi Engemann, a “MomTok” influencer who was additionally on “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives” however left the present earlier than Season 5 after a number of controversies, together with a defamation lawsuit from “Vanderpump Villa” star Marciano Brunette.
Different solid members embody “Love Island USA” star Huda Mustafa; Anna Delvey (the pseudonym of Russian-born con artist Anna Sorokin, who served practically 4 years in jail for fraud); and WWE Famous person Saraya Bevis.
The solid of “Unwell Winter Video games” is split into two groups – one purple and the opposite blue – with one crew successful the ultimate crew prize. Moreover, contestants will compete individually to win money prizes all through the challenges that make up the competitors. The collection, filmed final winter, was authorised by the Utah Tourism Growth Council for movie incentive funding.
“The collection guarantees fierce competitors, surprising alliances and the form of unfiltered drama that has outlined Unwell in its programming,” Cooper’s firm stated in asserting the collection.
“Unwell Winter Video games” will debut on Unwell’s YouTube channel on Monday, April 6, with subsequent episodes streaming day by day (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday). The collection is hosted by Adam W. (the creator of YouTube comedy Adam Waheed), with commentary from Graydon Cutler and Grace O’Malley.
The announcement indicators “a deliberate growth of Unwell’s enterprise into premium content material that’s fully self-produced and distributed on to audiences,” the corporate stated. On the similar time, Unwell and Cooper will even proceed to develop programming alongside premium distribution companions, together with “Love Overboard,” presently streaming on Hulu, and the upcoming “Let’s Marry Harry” on Netflix.
“Unwell Winter Video games” is produced by Cooper and her husband, Matt Kaplan, who co-founded Unwell Community’s mother or father firm, Trending, in 2024.
Right here is the complete solid of “Unwell Winter Video games” opponents, with descriptions offered by the Cooper Firm:
- Alissa Violet, the OG influencer
- Andrew Vetter, the manufacturing man/bartender
- Anna Delvey, queen of rip-off
- Cameron Jerrard, professional shit talker
- Dakota Mortensen, actuality TV character
- Demi Engemann, MomTok’s Final Mormon Spouse
- Dylan Kevitch, King of Shut Up
- Ekin Su Cülcüloğlu, the queen of the Love Island competitors
- Eyal Booker, the British bombshell from Love Island
- Gleb Savchenko, Dancing with the Stars, idol
- Hallie Batchelder, New York’s Unfiltered ‘It Woman’
- Hannah Stocking, The OG Wines
- Huda Mustafa, Love Island Mamacita
- Joe Amabile, Joe’s Grocery Retailer
- Juliette Porter, Siesta Key mermaid
- Louis Russell, repeat actuality TV offender
- Niko Emanuilidis, the courting dad
- Saraya Bevis, WWE Famous person
- Serena Pitt, depraved single