Andy Cohen is constant on with Watch What Occurs Reside. Bravo has renewed his much-buzzed-about late night time discuss present by way of 2025 after finishing an investigation into accusations from former stars of The Actual Housewives, the franchise on which he’s additionally an government producer.
“The skin investigation into the latest allegations made by Brandi Glanville and Leah McSweeney in opposition to Andy Cohen has now been accomplished, and the claims had been discovered to be unsubstantiated,” a Bravo spokesperson tells The Hollywood Reporter.
The assertion got here forward of NBCUniversal’s upfront presentation set for subsequent week and coincided with the information that the Actual Housewives franchise has no indicators of slowing down. New seasons of Housewives exhibits set in Atlanta, Beverly Hills, Miami, New York Metropolis, Orange County, Potomac and Salt Lake Metropolis will premiere within the 2024-25 season (dates have but to be introduced).
Forward of marking his fifteenth anniversary with WHHL later this yr, host Cohen sat down with THR for a canopy story that printed this week, the place he addressed for the primary time a number of allegations from former Housewives stars McSweeney and Glanville, in addition to Caroline Manzo and Eboni Williams.
“Sadly, I can’t discuss a few of these issues,” he instructed co-editor in chief Maer Roshan about Glanville and Manzo alleging sexual harassment, and McSweeney’s accusations about makes an attempt to sabotage her sobriety. “What I’ll say in regards to the alcohol is that we’ve so many sober individuals and individuals who have gotten sober on the present, like Countess Luann [de Lesseps]. We’ve individuals who’ve by no means had a drink throughout the complete run of the present. Jill Zarin. Kandi Burris. Heather Dubrow will simply have an occasional glass of champagne. So certain, there are individuals who drink. There are a lot of individuals who by no means drink. We don’t drive anybody to do something. However nobody is secretly hiding liquor bottles on set. That’s ridiculous. We’ve been very supportive of individuals’s sobriety.”
McSweeney filed a lawsuit in February, naming Cohen together with Bravo, NBC/Common, manufacturing home Shed Media US, and producers John Paparazzo, Lisa Shannon and Darren Ward. She alleged a conspiracy to prey on her alcoholism to spice up the present’s rankings. “[Cohen] engaged in cocaine use with ‘Housewives’ and different Bravolebrities that he employs” and rewards “‘Housewives’ with whom he makes use of cocaine with extra favorable therapy and edits,” the go well with additionally claimed of the 55-year-old Bravo producer and host.
Cohen denied the allegations on the time on Twitter, with a rep including, “The claims in opposition to Andy are fully false.”
The week prior, ex-ROHBH star Brandi Glanville claimed that Cohen bragged about how he’d prefer to “sleep with one other Bravo star” and that he was “pondering” about her, inviting Glanville to look at over FaceTime, which she referred to as an “extraordinary abuse of energy.” Cohen shortly brushed this off on X, saying Glanville was in on the lighthearted joke, however did apologize for saying one thing “completely inappropriate.”
Glanville herself is dealing with authorized motion introduced by one other castmate, Caroline Manzo, who accused Glanville of sexual assault whereas filming season 4 of spinoff collection The Actual Housewives Final Women Journey, which filmed with Glanville returning and has but to air.
When speaking to THR in regards to the claims round alcohol on Housewives units, Cohen, who hosts the Bravo reunion exhibits, mentioned, “We don’t have to gin up drama! Have you ever seen Ramona Singer on a random Tuesday at 1 p.m.? Have you ever ever run into Lisa Rinna at midday? Lisa Rinna doesn’t want a glass of rosé as a way to inform you precisely how she is feeling. Margaret Josephs solely drinks Weight loss plan Coke, and he or she is a reality cannon wherever she goes. I don’t assume Teresa Giudice would say that it was the pink wine that brought about her to flip that desk! We begin filming the reunions at 6 a.m. for God’s sake!”
Cohen additionally weighed in on calls from ex-RHONY star Bethenny Frankel for actuality stars to be unionized and mentioned that whereas a few of these claims have been hurtful, he in the end has no regrets.
“I’m extremely happy with the shut relationships I’ve inbuilt my 20 years on the community,” he mentioned. “I’m tremendous happy with what we’ve constructed and of all people who’s been part of it. I feel most individuals concerned with these exhibits have been very grateful for the platform, however there’ll at all times be a number of with complaints. Clearly, it’s no enjoyable to be a goal. So, sure, it’s hurtful. However I’ve no regrets about the best way I’ve dealt with something.”