Sophie Cunningham's Wild Plan: Faking Illness in WNBA Season to Join Summer House Cast for Party Shenanigans - lulu

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Next time Sophie Cunningham calls in sick, check the Hamptons.

While the 28-year-old Indiana Fever guard was exclusively telling PEOPLE she's launching a podcast with Summer House's West Wilson, Cunningham joked about the struggle of the WNBA season overlapping with filming on Wilson's Bravo reality show.

"I haven't been [to the house] because it's during our season," Cunningham says of the five-bedroom Hamptons home where Wilson, 30, and his pals let cameras inside their summer party pad. "Though, we have said this so many times — I think I'm gonna, like, fake being sick or something and just show up there."

Wilson's show isn't the only Bravo series Cunningham follows — she's a big Bravo fan in general — and she's successfully converted her Fever teammates into regular Summer House viewers. "I've been addicted, and I have my teammates on it. I have everyone watching it because of West."

Sophie Cunningham and Caitlin Clark in Indiana on July 18, 2025.

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Wilson — who has known the WNBA star since the two were "little babies" growing up in Columbia, Missouri — then quips, "If she has an upper body injury...," before Cunningham cuts him off and blurts out, "Oh my god, West."

The Bravo star and sports journalist has supported his co-star at three games — though none yet in her new home of Indiana — since she was drafted with the 13th overall pick in 2019. Wilson isn't surprised that Cunningham has become a WNBA fan favorite. "She's been balling since eighth grade," he tells PEOPLE.

But Wilson, a former football player but "not a hooper at all" by his own admission, says his favorite memory of Cunningham from their high school days was when she played kicker in a boys' football game on the night of their homecoming dance.

Sophie Cunningham on July 22, 2025.

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"I wasn't, like, on the football team all four years and I wasn't tackling people. Our kicker blew out his knee and I played for like, a game and a half," Cunningham explains.

"But the kicker, wink wink, of the story is it was homecoming so all these girls were dressed up so cute and pretty in their dresses, and then I was like, in football pads with my poor date in a tuxedo. Like, it was bad."

Wilson and Cunningham announced their new podcast, Show Me Something, in an exclusive interview with PEOPLE on Wednesday, July 30. The duo said their show will cover all aspects of sports and pop culture. "We're definitely going to hit on the WNBA, a huge topic in sports right now, and then Bravo, clearly, but pop culture, food, fashion, travel, let's spread this thing wide open because we really do talk about anything," said Cunningham.

"We're lighthearted, and sometimes our love language is, like, s--- talking," she continued. "It'll be cool that people can see our humor, what we're actually like and, it's coming from us and not from other people perceiving or portraying what they think we are."