She started from the bottom — and now she’s right here.
Mother influencer Bobbi Althoff, 26, rapidly rose to reputation when she interviewed rap celebrity Drake, 36, in July in his mattress for her podcast, “The Really Good Podcast,” which she began in April.
Now, that not going friendship turns out to have ended as briefly as it all started, because the two are in a rumored feud as cringey because the now-viral come across that introduced it.
Althoff’s interview with Drake dropped on July 9. Thru it, she gave the impression detached to him, wondering him in a clumsy taste that has drawn comparisons to comedian-interviewers Ziwe and Amelia Dimoldenberg.
Within the bed-bound chat, she informed Drake she’s by no means heard any of his song and requested the “Nonstop” rapper questions akin to, “Why do you follow so many people on Instagram?” and “Are you gonna buy me a flight home?”
Althoff additionally slammed him as “sad” for ingesting right through the interview.
“The idea behind it was it would be a funny thing that you wanted to do it so bad that you bothered him while he was going to bed to do it,” she told Today on the while.
When she interviewed Lil Yachty next Drake, Drake referred to as Lil Yachty in the course of their interview and mentioned, “What’s up, Bobbo?” indicating a persisted friendliness between Drake and Althoff.
Alternatively, she’s now unfollowed Drake and took down the total interview from all her platforms. Just a pair of “shorts” remain on her YouTube channel, which boasts 714,000 fans.
This abrupt feud between Althoff and Drake turns out to have come from Drake’s live performance in LA on Saturday.
The Publish has reached out to reps for each events for remark.
In the meantime, Althoff posted a video of herself utmost generation within the public at an obvious Drake display — along with her hands crossed, taking a look ill-natured, past everybody round her danced. “Really in my element @ this guy’s concert,” she captioned it.
A number of enthusiasts slammed her video.
“Am I the only one who doesn’t find this humor funny at all?? Idk it comes cringe,” one person said on X, previously referred to as Twitter.
Any other fan griped, “She seems so insufferable. Like how is it your personality act to be the most boring and negative person in the room.”
Any other fan complained, “Alright, this girl is annoying now. We can surely move on.”
Via Monday, Althoff’s podcast episode with Drake was once got rid of from Spotify and from her Youtube web page, and the 2 had unfollowed each and every alternative on Instagram.
Some enthusiasts have speculated that Drake was once now not amused via her “unimpressed” response publish about his live performance, and that’s why that they had a falling out.
“This Bobby Althoff girl is weird I won’t blame Drake if he got offended, who go to someone’s concert and look like that? Support him like he supported you ho. He gave you relevancy and views,” one fan posted.
Alternatively, others have speculated that the mutual unfollowing is simply a exposure stunt — as a result of next they unfollowed each and every alternative, Althoff wrote a cryptic Instagram tale on Monday: “Big announcement coming next Monday. Set a reminder because you guys will not want to miss this. Nine in the morning, someone’s time zone.”
Althoff, who now has over 5 million TikTok fans, has been posting since 2021. She started with content relating to being a young mom and parenting, and handiest lately pivoted to celebs, additionally interviewing disgraced YouTuber Colleen Ballinger, Lil Yachty, Mark Cuban, Rick Glassman, and YouTuber Humorous Marco.
“When I started my podcast in April, I wanted to do interviews with celebrities, but I didn’t know how I was going to get there. It was really hard to get guests, so I made a video on TikTok saying that I would give $300 to any person who successfully connected me to a celebrity for a podcast,” she told Cosmopolitan.
“Rick Glassman, the comedian, was the first person I was able to interview because somebody tagged him, and he was like, ‘Okay, I’ll do it.’ So I sent her $300 and did the episode with Rick Glassman.”
That’s how she landed Humorous Marco, too, she defined.
“Then I got a random comment on TikTok asking if I had heard of Funny Marco… I took a screenshot of the comment, posted it on my Instagram Stories, and tagged him, saying, ‘Marco, if you want to make this girl $300, DM me.’ He had over 4 million followers at the time, and I only had 500,000. I was like, ‘He’s not going to see this.’ But he replied, like, a second later. So I sent the girl $300 and he came on the podcast. Our video together got so many views.”
A kind of perspectives was once from Drake, who next began following her, she mentioned.
When that took place, she determined to “go for it and shoot my shot.” She despatched Drake a right away message inviting him on her podcast, and he yes.
“He sent me his touring schedule, and I knew that I needed to make it happen fast, so my friend and I flew to Memphis two days after the original DM was sent to record the episode.”
She neglected her daughter’s first birthday to interview Drake.
Protecting that selection, she informed Cosmo, “We celebrated her birthday the weekend before, and she’s 1. She doesn’t know anything. It’s like any other day to her. People are so dramatic. They were like, ‘You did this for Drake?’ I don’t even know what my parents did for my first birthday. They probably worked. I know that I’m a good mom. It was work, and it was very much needed.”
On account of her abrupt arise to reputation between April and August, there has even been hypothesis that she is an “industry plant,” subsidized via Hollywood insiders. She mocked that rumor via posting a TikTok video of herself dancing to “Barbie World” via Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj, with a caption studying “celebrating because the industry planted me.”
She informed Cosmo that she does have connections to Snoop Dogg, however she isn’t a “nepo baby,” as a few of her critics have speculated.
“My dad’s a contractor, and he was working on Snoop Dogg’s neighbor’s house…I could not be further from someone with connections and with money. People are like, ‘Her dad had connections with Snoop Dogg.’ My dad was a handyman.”
Alternatively, regardless of denying that she is “someone with money,” she admitted that she self-funds her flights for her podcast, and he or she didn’t specify the place she will get $300 to often deal to influencers to return on her podcast.
Althoff, a mom of 2 daughters who’s married to laptop programmer Cory Althoff, has previously said on Dave Portny’s BFF Podcast that she and her husband bliss one at a time, as she sleeps with their youngsters.
“I like dry humor; that’s what comes most naturally for me, so I want to see where that takes me,” she informed Cosmo.
“I would love to get into acting. That’s definitely where I see myself going…I know that at any moment, my 10 seconds of fame could die down, and then what? But it doesn’t matter because my life is bigger than me. My kids are my purpose, and if I have to get a job at freakin’ McDonald’s after all of this, that’s what I’ll do.”
Althoff and Drake didn’t reply when The Publish reached out for remark.
