{"id":87777,"date":"2022-01-09T23:39:12","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=87777"},"modified":"2022-01-09T23:39:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T07:39:12","slug":"cohen-cooper-and-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2022\/01\/09\/cohen-cooper-and-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"Cohen, Cooper and CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the New Year rang in on <em>CNN<\/em>, gays from hither and yon were debating whether <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>was a jocular gent or a loveable louse.&nbsp; \u201cI will not be shamed for having fun on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 that\u2019s why I\u2019m there,\u201d said Cohen.&nbsp; No one debated having fun on NYE \u2013 it\u2019s having it on <em>CNN <\/em>that was the issue.&nbsp; After much speculation, the network brass weighed in.&nbsp; \u201cAndy said something he shouldn\u2019t have on live TV.&nbsp; We\u2019ve addressed it with him and look forward to having him back again next year.\u201d&nbsp; What Cohen said was, \u201c<strong>Ryan Seacrest<\/strong>\u2019s group of losers that are performing behind us.&nbsp; I mean, with all due\u2026if you\u2019ve been watching <em>ABC<\/em> tonight, you\u2019ve seen nothing.&nbsp; I\u2019m sorry.\u201d&nbsp; The next morning, Cohen felt differently: \u201cThe only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the <em>ABC<\/em> broadcast, and I really like Ryan Seacrest and he\u2019s a great guy.&nbsp; And I really regret saying that, and I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it.\u201d&nbsp; The issue is the close friendship Cohen and <strong>Cooper <\/strong>have with <strong>Kelly Ripa <\/strong>\u2013 who co-hosts her daytime show with Ryan.&nbsp; Andy\u2019s crack puts Ripa in the middle \u2013 not helped by the fact that both Cohen and Cooper coveted Seacrest\u2019s seat (so to speak).&nbsp; It surely makes for an awkward Sunday funday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the New Year rang in on CNN, gays from hither and yon were debating whether Andy Cohen was a jocular gent or a loveable louse.&nbsp; \u201cI will not be shamed for having fun on New Year\u2019s Eve \u2013 that\u2019s why I\u2019m there,\u201d said Cohen.&nbsp; No one debated having fun on NYE \u2013 it\u2019s having<\/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-87777","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\/87777","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=87777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87786,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87777\/revisions\/87786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}