Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner may be New York Times bestselling authors and co-hosts of the wildly popular “Giggly Squad” podcast, but it turns out they owe a major thank you to Summer House co-star Kyle Cooke for one key reason. Without even realizing it, Cooke is the one who came up with the name that launched their brand.
Paige DeSorbo and Hannah Berner Find Huge Success With ‘Giggly Squad’
DeSorbo and Berner’s “Giggly Squad” podcast, which launched in 2020, has exploded into a phenomenon with over 44 million downloads, a 50-something-city live tour, and now, a bestselling book. Their debut, “How to Giggle,” shot to No. 2 on the New York Times “Advice, How-to, and Miscellaneous” list after its April 15 release.
Fans and fellow Bravolebrities flooded them with support after the announcement, including Cooke, who left three raised-hands emojis in the podcast’s Instagram comments.
During a recent episode of “Giggly Squad,” the hosts joked about their unexpected literary stardom. “The girls are reading like, the internet is out,” DeSorbo cracked, while Berner added, “The response from the book has been (expletive) insane.”
How Kyle Cooke Accidentally Created the ‘Giggly Squad’ Name
Longtime “Summer House” fans know the true origin of the “Giggly Squad” name — and it wasn’t something DeSorbo and Berner came up with themselves.
During a group dinner in season 4, Cooke grew frustrated when DeSorbo and Berner couldn’t stop laughing next to each other while he was discussing his upcoming wedding to Amanda Batula.
Losing patience, he snapped, “She’s actually talking to you and you’re hanging out with the Giggly Squad.”
Cooke’s comment wasn’t meant as a compliment, but the nickname stuck. Eventually, DeSorbo and Berner embraced it, even using a distorted clip of Cooke’s voice from that very scene as the intro to every episode of their hit podcast.
New Paige DeSorbo and ‘Giggly Squad’ React to the Revelation
As DeSorbo and Berner prepared to take “Giggly Squad Live: Club Giggly” on the road last fall, Bravo shared a clip of the infamous moment on TikTok, revealing to new “Summer House” fans exactly how the name was created.
One fan commented, “Wait, is this why they called their podcast ‘Giggly Squad’?”
Another added, “HI never knew this either! I love it!”
The “Giggly Squad” podcast is released weekly, with new episodes typically coming out on Mondays.
Fans can catch DeSorbo and Cooke still partying in the Hamptons on new episodes of “Summer House” Wednesday nights on Bravo.
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Paige DeSorbo Has Kyle Cooke to Thank for One Very Important Thing