Original Coverage & Source Attribution: pagesix.com
This all seems like a plotline out of “Sex and the City”…
Former Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard was in the dark that his ex, podcaster Alex Cooper, was setting up paparazzi shots of the duo when they were dating, insiders say.
In Sofia Franklyn‘s new bombshell memoir, “Daddy Issues,” Franklyn accuses her former BFF Cooper of once trying to stage a photo with Syndergaard to win back her former on-and-off beau.
But paparazzi sources tell us it wasn’t the only time Cooper was “calling the shots,” so to speak.
“Alex was setting all this stuff up. He didn’t know this was going on,” says a source of the exes.
The source added, “She knew when the cameras were on her, and she’d play it up. You can look at the photos when she’s grabbing his cheeks.”
But then, “Alex and Noah had a very bad breakup,” recalls a source.
Page Six reported that in the book, Franklyn recalls her then-roommate Cooper telling her she wanted her to take a picture of the pair out together because, “He’s just such a s–t, and I want to have them in case I need to send them to his mom.”
But we hear that the pitcher’s family were not fans of his relationship with Cooper.
Syndergaard — nicknamed “Thor” during his time in Queens for his Viking-like stature and uncanny resemblance to Chris Hemsworth’s Marvel hero — hails from tiny Mansfield, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, and dated Cooper sporadically in 2017.
“His family knew how bad she was for him, and they hated her. They didn’t want him to be with her,” said a pal.
We have reached out to a rep for Cooper.
