What’s Happening with Bravo’s Andy Cohen
Whether he’s spending his days working on the myriad of programming projects at Bravo, moderating one of the outrageous reunions with maniacal housewives or sitting in the host chair every Thursday night on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live, Andy Cohen is having a ball.
When the show debuted last summer, the show was a perfect compliment to popular Bravo programming like the Real Housewives franchise, Flipping Out or Million Dollar Listing since the reality stars of those shows often are guests and talk about what’s really going on when the cameras are turned off. Cohen is also connected well enough in ’the biz’ that he can get big-name, non-Bravo talent such as Sarah Jessica Parker to come join him for a cocktail on the show.
With the second season kicking off last week, EDGE’s Jim Halterman called up Cohen to get an update on his busy life, what’s coming up on Bravo and Watch What Happens Live as well as what the latest dating status is for the good looking, charismatic, out man who helps steer Bravo to ratings gold.
Cocktails a hazard?
EDGE: From the get-go on Watch What Happens Live, you just seemed so comfortable in the host chair. Is that a natural role for you or does it have something to do with the cocktails consumed on the show?
Andy Cohen: It’s pretty natural. What’s funny is that the night of the premiere of the first episode of season one, I was not nervous. I felt so calm and it was a lot of stuff that I haven’t done, certainly live with an earpiece and a teleprompter and phones and all this other stuff but I feel really comfortable.
It’s just the culmination of a lot of stuff that I’ve always wanted to do so it’s fun. The booze doesn’t hurt and it gets scary when sometimes during the end of the show I’m reading the Mazel and the Jackhole and I hear myself starting to slur a little bit. I think ’this is not good!’ Story continues on following page.
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