Andy Cohen Displays on His Largest ‘WWHL’ Moments (Unique)

Andy Cohen is trying again on 15 years of chaos within the clubhouse. 

As Watch What Happens Live celebrates its fifteenth anniversary, Cohen is reflecting on a few of of his largest will get and regrets in an unique rETrospective interview with ET. Among the many most unforgettable was Oprah Winfrey‘s 2013 look. 

“This was an enormous second for me and for the present,” Cohen says, trying again on footage of the second. “I am such a fan of Oprah.” 

By the top of the interview, Cohen’s devil-may-care perspective took over as he seized a possibility to ask her whether or not she’s “taken a dip within the woman pond.” 

“That is most likely one in every of my few regrets,” Cohen says.

“It meant a lot to me that Oprah Winfrey did the present,” he continues. “It is gone brilliantly and I flip round and ask her if she’s each had intercourse with a girl. I imply, could not I depart it alone?” 

On the time, Winfrey answered with a direct, “No, no I’ve not. Thanks.” 

Cohen says that the media mogul was “tremendous cool” and “it was not awkward” after the cameras stopped rolling. Nonetheless, he later heard from Winfrey’s pal, Gayle King, that the previous discuss present host might not have understood the query. 

“Gayle King informed me later that week that Oprah did not know what I meant by ‘the woman pond,'” Cohen shares. “I assumed I defined it fairly effectively there, however hear, I used to be so grateful that Oprah did the present and I nonetheless am. That is still, I feel, my favourite episode.” 

As for one in every of his favourite friends, Cohen has excessive reward for Patti LuPone. 

“I imply, Patti LuPone has no F’s to provide so she is the proper clubhouse visitor,” Cohen gushes. “She’s been right here many occasions.” 

LuPone memorably took goal at Madonna throughout a sit-down in 2017 with Cohen, when she referred to as the Evita star “a film killer.” 

“This clip bought me in a whole lot of bother with Madonna, who referred to as me a ‘troublemaking queen’ from the stage of her Celebration Tour. [She] mentioned, ‘That you must cease speaking crap about me in your present,'” Cohen laments. “Now the reality is, it wasn’t me speaking crap about her. It was folks like Patti LuPone — who I additionally love, by the way in which.” 

Cohen says he ended up sending Madge a spotlight reel of “all the great issues we mentioned” about her by the years.

“She appreciated it,” Cohen provides, noting that she nonetheless has but to simply accept his invitation to be a visitor on the present after greater than 15 years of requests. 

“The key to the success of Watch What Occurs Reside, I feel, is spontaneity, authenticity, enjoyable, humor, me going there and folks by no means figuring out what’s gonna occur,” Cohen muses of his friends’ experiences. As a rule, that features booze. 

“Individuals let their guard down right here,” he says. “It is also stay, we’re on at night time, we serve alcohol.” 

He provides, “It is so small in right here that it is misleading, like, folks do not realize they’re truly on tv.” 

One such event got here in 2011 when Regina King and Jackée Harry have been, in Cohen’s phrases, “sauced.” 

“They have been smashed within the inexperienced room they usually have been extra smashed the longer we went on,” Cohen recollects. “I used to be questioning if it was too messy after which I noticed, ‘Oh, wait, folks on Twitter are loving this’ and it grew to become a extremely, actually historic episode.” 

Cohen himself has been known to imbibe alongside pal Anderson Cooper through the duo’s New Yr’s Eve telecast on CNN. 

“The friendship I’ve with Anderson means quite a bit,” Cohen says. “We have gotten a lot nearer over the previous 15 years. We have been on tour collectively, we co-host New Yr’s Eve collectively, we have been by quite a bit and being dads collectively has been an ideal pleasure in our lives.” 

Right this moment, Cohen is a dad to son Benjamin, 5, and daughter Lucy, 2. Anderson is the daddy of two sons — Wyatt, 4, and Sebastian, 2. 

“Being a dad has completely modified how I method work, too,” Cohen provides. “I come, I do my factor, I’m going house to the youngsters and I really like bringing them right here.” 

It is a stark distinction to the way in which it began again on July 16, 2009, when WWHL first debuted. 

“I used to exit each night time till all hours after the present, and now I actually keep house,” he confesses. “I’m going house and kiss my youngsters goodnight whereas they’re sleeping and I can not wait to see them within the morning. My life has completely modified and I would not have imagined this for myself 15 years in the past.” 

The host and Actual Housewives mastermind says he is “extremely grateful” as of late. 

“The subsequent chapter of life is de facto all in regards to the youngsters,” he shares. “And conserving this present going and conserving the Housewives as recent as we will.” 

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