After the surprising breakup information, all followers need from Sue Chook and Megan Rapinoe is only a contact extra.
It appears followers will get simply that.
When the beloved couple introduced their surprising break up by way of a joint assertion on Friday afternoon, the co-podcast hosts introduced that their present, “A Contact Extra,” isn’t over simply but.
As an alternative of internet hosting collectively, the 2 will host separate reveals for six extra episodes.
“We aren’t going to be internet hosting this pod collectively each week,” Rapinoe mentioned within the video posted to Instagram. “We’re each actually unhappy to be shedding this house. It’s been so significant to us, particularly post-retirement, to have this to share, not simply collectively however with you as nicely.”
“We aren’t going wherever,” Chook added. “We’re going to do some tradeoff, internet hosting six extra particular version episodes of ‘A Contact Extra.’ That shall be our farewell to you all and this house.”
The previous couple, who had been collectively for over a decade, began their podcast on Instagram through the COVID-19 pandemic earlier than partnering with Vox Media in 2024. Their first episode with the corporate launched through the Paris Olympics and featured a — on the time — just lately retired Candace Parker.
Each Chook and Rapinoe additionally reassured followers that their sole ventures gained’t be going wherever after “A Contact Extra” involves an in depth.
Chook, the Corridor of Famer and four-time WNBA champ, will nonetheless be pushing out episodes for the second season of the “Chook’s Eye View,” a podcast that lends a close-up lens to all issues W.
She can even be a part of NBC and Peacock as a studio analyst for the upcoming season.
Rapinoe shall be carving a brand new path for herself.
The 2-time FIFA Ladies’s World Cup champion shall be doing a particular version of “A Contact Extra” across the World Cup this summer season because the U.S. hosts the key worldwide occasion. She additionally teased that she shall be launching her personal present late this summer season.
“I hope you all know we put loads of thought and care into this,” Rapinoe added. “It’s a call that we made collectively. We’re nonetheless going to be there for all of you and for one another. It’s simply going to feel and appear somewhat bit totally different.
“We really are evolving into one thing new to one another, to ourselves, to all of you. We simply needed to say thanks for sharing this house with us and giving us the house to seek out ourselves another way by way of this podcast.”
“We’re so so so grateful and we hope you proceed with us on this subsequent journey as nicely,” Chook concluded.
Chook and Rapinoe met on the 2016 Rio Olympics when each had been enjoying for his or her respective groups in Seattle. They went public with their relationship in July 2017 and later obtained engaged in October 2020.
