{"id":1875,"date":"2016-05-02T01:17:18","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2016-05-02T01:17:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T08:17:18","slug":"cooper-heading-to-abc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/05\/02\/cooper-heading-to-abc\/","title":{"rendered":"Cooper Heading to ABC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As to his replacement, my sources confirm that the short list is the two people who were candidates the last time &#8211; <strong>Anderson Cooper <\/strong>and <strong>Neil Patrick Harris<\/strong>.\u00a0 For NPH, it would be a step in the right direction after his variety show disaster.\u00a0 But it would be quite limiting in terms of future acting.\u00a0 Anderson is a better fit on many levels.\u00a0 And, as it happens, his <em>CNN <\/em>contract is up at the end of the year.\u00a0 Perhaps <em>ABC<\/em> could sweeten the deal by throwing in a position in their news division (a division replete with gays).\u00a0 Plus, Anderson would get to spend every day working with his best friend, Ripa.\u00a0 When asked by <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>if he would take the job, Cooper said,\u00a0 &#8220;Look, I&#8217;m very happy at <em>CNN<\/em>.\u00a0 It would be a dream to work with Kelly, but nobody&#8217;s offering anything.&#8221;\u00a0 Yet.<\/p>\n<p>This leads to yet another update from Cooper.\u00a0 Last week, I told you about his older brother <strong>Christopher<\/strong>&#8216;s 40-year estrangement from the family.\u00a0 Cohen asked Cooper about his relationship with his older brothers, and the silver fox made this seemingly innocent statement: &#8220;It&#8217;s good.\u00a0 Stan is a great guy and I&#8217;m close with his kids.\u00a0 And Chris has come back in my mom&#8217;s life and, um, so, it&#8217;s good.&#8221;\u00a0 Sounds like the documentary helped bridge this four-decade gap &#8211; good news for the 92-year-old <strong>Gloria Vanderbilt<\/strong>.\u00a0 And just in the nick of time.already!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As to his replacement, my sources confirm that the short list is the two people who were candidates the last time &#8211; Anderson Cooper and Neil Patrick Harris.\u00a0 For NPH, it would be a step in the right direction after his variety show disaster.\u00a0 But it would be quite limiting in terms of future acting.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1875\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}