Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper nonetheless discovered a technique to have some ingesting enjoyable throughout their “New Yr’s Eve Dwell” particular this yr.
Regardless of CNN banning them from consuming booze Saturday evening, the 2 downed non-alcoholic thriller photographs to ring in 2023.
The longtime friends addressed “the elephant within the room” in the course of the dwell broadcast, assuring viewers that there would nonetheless be one thing drinking-related on the prime of each hour.
At one level, Cohen, 54, hilariously yelled to producers that he “wants tequila” after they gave he and his co-host, 55, photographs of pickle juice, apple cider vinegar and buttermilk.
The duo wore glasses so that they couldn’t see the contents of the glass.
“We’ll take the shot, after which we’ll guess what it was,” Cohen defined, with Cooper saying, “Truthfully, that is no completely different to me as a result of alcohol, to me, all tastes disgusting.”
The epic second adopted Cohen’s notorious alcohol-infused rant final yr, wherein he hilariously took down ex-New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and referred to as Ryan Seacrest’s manufacturing and workers a “bunch of losers.”
The Bravo exec beforehand informed Web page Six he wouldn’t be ingesting this yr after CNN banned its contributors from doing so because of his on-air habits.
“We aren’t ingesting, however we’re going to have a BLAST,” he informed us completely, clarifying the feedback he gave to Rolling Stone greater than a month in the past about imbibing in the course of the broadcast.
“CNN stated the correspondents is not going to be ingesting,” he informed the outlet on the time. “Anderson and I would be the folks partying on CNN [though] we can be partying responsibly.”
The TV character even joked that he would “torch the place” after which “head out” again to his residence base at Bravo shortly after the ball drops.
“My job is to be a celebration ringleader for everybody watching us on New Yr’s Eve,” he added. “And that’s what I’ll proceed to do.”