Andy Cohen Confirms CNN New Year’s Return With Anderson Cooper

Andy Cohen and his tequila are returning to cohost New 12 months’s Eve Dwell with Anderson Cooper.

Talking with Selection in an interview printed on Saturday, October 26, Cohen, 55, confirmed he’d be returning to host CNN’s New 12 months’s Eve Dwell with Cooper, 57, for the 2024-25 broadcast — and so they’ll undoubtedly be ingesting.

“Sure! You guess,” Cohen informed the outlet. “After what Anderson did in that hurricane, I’m not solely giving him tequila, I’m throwing it at him.”

Cohen was referring to Cooper’s protection of Hurricane Milton in Bradenton, Florida, the place he was struck by flying particles whereas reporting on-location earlier this month. On the time, some followers joked on social media that Cooper’s expertise earned him the best to drink on air with Cohen throughout their 2024 New 12 months’s Eve particular. (CNN beforehand banned the duo from doing so in 2023.)

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“CNN had higher let Anderson Cooper black out on New 12 months’s Eve for this,” one X person wrote. One other shared, “Watching Anderson Cooper earn his NYE get together.”

The Actual Housewives producer took over cohost duties for New 12 months’s Eve Dwell throughout the 2017-18 broadcast, changing Kathy Griffin and becoming a member of Cooper in Occasions Sq. to ring within the New 12 months. It was this present the place Cohen additionally, famously, launched pictures of tequila “on the prime of each hour.”

Cohen has since returned as cohost yearly, and social media customers have loved poking enjoyable at his drunken antics and Cooper’s facial expressions as he makes an attempt to down the tequila. Nevertheless, throughout the 2021-22 present, Cohen, who was admittedly drunk on the time, threw shade at Ryan Secreast’s Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest.

“Should you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing,” Cohen stated on the time. “I’m sorry however in the event you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing.”

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After Cohen’s remarks, CNN selected to cut back on on-air alcohol consumption for its correspondents. Cohen later apologized for his feedback, even squashing his beef with Seacrest throughout a September 2024 episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell.

Nevertheless, main as much as the 2022-23 present, it was reported that CNN was searching for a drier New 12 months’s Eve Dwell. In November 2022, Cohen clarified with The Hollywood Reporter that CNN chairman Chris Licht “didn’t need the correspondents on the market ingesting, however that he needed Anderson and I to do our factor.”

He stated, “My solely directive for years on CNN has been to have enjoyable on New 12 months’s Eve, and that’s completely what I plan to do.”