Andy Cohen, King of Bravo | Not Skinny But Not Fat

I wanted to get into to Bravo sub so for me so I am a I call myself a fraud bravaholic because people think I'm one but I don't know yeah okay so sometimes I'm like I'm not watching all the house but not watching all the things but I do feel very strongly about the ones that I love and I also feel like I A lot of times defend you you're welcome good when people think that you like are in charge of everything yes you know yes I am no longer so can you explain like one thing for us to the people I am your role yes I am I used to be in charge of programming and development okay like 2003 um 2004 to [Music] something like that yes okay yes and so um I am now when I left that I think the last show that I developed I think southern charm and below deck those were kind of at when I was on the way out of development uh and I retained my my EP status of all the housewives so anything Housewives I am an executive producer of involved in casting I watch every episode I give notes on every episode I um ultimate girls trip anything regarding the housewives I'm an EP of and Watch What Happens Live and then of course all the reunions yes wow that's still how do you have time to watch all the housewives make them I have to um and then you know I will say that there are some dotted line things I'm still very in touch with because all of the programming is X at Bravo there the housewives are scattered out throughout them all so I still have day-to-day relationships with I'm texting sting and on the phone with all the programming execs at Bravo so and since everyone from Bravo is coming through Watch What Happens Live I would say that I will say to them what are you doing about summer house here's what I think but someone has taken your role since then yes yes absolutely wow so you're still like you're still Hands-On kind of I'm still very handsome okay wow and then I would say that I share my opinions freely on all the other shows when I have them so how free is that how free are you to share your opinion very really yeah you could be like team Ariana but I'm also team Tom Sandoval staying on the show yeah I heard you say that that like no one's getting fired for cheating yeah exactly and that would be quite hypocritical on that show they've all cheated Ariana and Katie like hello that's what we love about it I'm a Vanderpump I'm a Vanderpump girly yeah um I said I would stop saying girly so well that's good I know do you like that what do you feel about it nothing I'm fine girly it's fine I feel good about it okay I mean we'll see in post you know um do Bravo fan because they scare me I think I used to be like Bravo Bravo and then I got scared okay you know there's so many Bravo accounts Bravo this Bravo that they get mad at you if you're you don't like the right person to get mad at you if you have a different opinion they're they're they're they're wild I find that I love it because they're passionate about something that I've involved in when it comes to me uh I just find that they're generally mad at me about something really yeah I was gonna ask if they're ever mad at you oh my God I kind of feel like I have a question here do they ever get mad at you oh my God I feel like they're always mad at me about one thing or another I mean from everything from why hasn't the trailer been released which I have no control over to um you know they think that I am you know I have favorites or that I was too easy on someone at a reunion or too hard enough yeah or too hard on someone or I'm biased or I'm not you know so I I have to take it with a grain of salt um and it's a delicate balance you know hosting the reunions is a really delicate balance how fun is that for you it's fun how fun is it yeah it can be fun not always no I mean it can be really fun I mean sometimes the Jersey reunion was not fun because it's family and they're all very upset and passionate and yeah that's not fun yeah but um others are others are like do you enjoy more hosting the reunions or doing your Watch What Happens live I mean I love watching episodes yeah reunions are meaty and I you know for for the people who watch each of those shows they're the Super Bowl for that show yeah so I love being a part of it and I like it I feel like I've I feel re-energized with the reunions over uh I feel like kind of when was it that I just I I've gone into a few recently where I'm like I need to deliver expectations are high and I want to do a good job which is a good feeling then yeah like what you did the Kardashians which wasn't yeah Bravo right right I was really excited about that that was Kim and I kind of hatched that plan a little bit she I don't know how and I don't remember but I and I said would you ever do it and she said if we did it I really want to do it and then as as we're they all agreed to it she really helped me book them all and so that's the thing that people don't understand about the family like they make their businesses and they come up with the ideas that was really instrumental though in making that happen but then I got freaked out as we were getting closer that they weren't gonna let me do my thing and I called her and I said listen I need to talk to you I feel like I need to do what I do I don't want to show you the questions I need to go there and if that's too scary for everyone then we shouldn't do this should no you have to that's right and then the morning of I remember Chris was really nervous and she was like why did we agree to do this and now the truth of the matter is I thought that the final product was really juicy and as revealing as they've been they confirmed a lot of stuff that they've never confirmed but I will say that there was so much more and if there could ever be a director's cut or my play oh my God I think people would be really surprised because we had very Frank conversations about plastic surgery about what you know they were there was a moment where I was grilling Kim and she was being she was being really PC and then she finally said look we're not going to use this but I'm going to tell you right now and she told it to me straight it was either something about I I it was about one of her former friends or someone who was no longer a part of the circle and I was like wow okay you need to fix this director's cut no the pitch it I mean they own the tapes yeah yeah so it's never going to be seen they have Final Cut yeah it's really happy with what they they did let on the air because it was more revealing than that well I think that people think a lot of the times I had them on my show and people would think like they told you what to ask probably and you had to and I was like literally no right there were a couple things cut wasn't like anything huge and they did let me ask the question so people a lot of times have like the wrong you know I have influencers that have been around for a day asking me for more like you know control control and like approvals I'm like hello that's interesting um yeah very very very interesting um so I'm sure you could ask this a lot but you have so many guests on Watch What Happens Live and exciting ones and and huge celebrities you have a dream that hasn't come true so many really yeah I mean you know what by the way half of the Kardashians haven't been who hasn't been on who has been on Kylie and Kendall have not been on so I'd like to did you did you try like is it always uh at that moment I didn't try but I felt actually that Kendall was the one actually Kendall and Kylie I think left the happiest that day because they were like oh this was great we actually were able to yeah because their personalities don't really shine through as much on the show right they need some more like like but I feel like there's so many people who've never done my show Madonna's never done my show is she a huge experience I've never done my show um yeah there are so many but I view every new person that's never done it as a big I get really excited Rod just did it for the first time he did it with another dude who did it with Liam Neeson that was yeah that was great but Liam's done it a million times is that random you have certain people that it's like random that they've done it a million I know I've known Liam oh because he's like a friend because I knew his his wife was a very good friend oh yes yeah he I saw him at the at the Rangers one of the games in here he did the whole um yeah he's so cool yeah um okay I have a question because I know Housewives and any reality you know TV show people they get a lot of heat on social as you see with Raquel right now and everything yeah if I were to be asked to be on the houses of New York City yeah first of all could you see me as one of looking up and down everybody if you can no I'm not looking up and down yes you're really an influential person in New York city so yes I could even you don't seem like a shrinking violet so yes a what a shrinking violence what does that mean it means someone that gets lost in a crowd oh well thank you write that down Andy Cohen said I'm not a drinking man right um what would you say to someone because even though I'm like in the public in my own way I'd be terrified of like going on a show like that from like people's reactions that's a normal right reaction do you what like do people ever want to sign on and they're they're they're too scared yeah sometimes people have we've gotten really usually the thing that takes women out of the process uh are their husbands usually it's because they have to be honest or they don't want they have to be they have to agree to be on it but they realize they are really putting their their lives on blast of their wife their couple the couple the their finances we've had some really prominent women people have um not people knocked us for years for uh that that the Housewives of New York was white for so long we had some very prominent women of color that we were very close to getting on the show that were dinged out at the last minute by their husbands so many people probably think like I'd go on reality TV in a hot second but they don't realize like what we're asking what you're asking because you're not it's it's you go all and access to your home we want access to your family yeah your kids I know it's pretty it's pretty crazy yeah do you try to convince those people some of them yeah I mean they're you know when it's a case of especially when I mean there were certain women of color that were just super important to the franchise it was so meaningful to us to get them in so those were times uh that I was in the meetings with people and calling them and saying what can we do and yes doing a full court press wow usually I don't get personally involved I got personal you know there are some Jenna Lions I got personally involved with Carol radziwill I knew before she came on road oh right she told that story yeah yeah I love Carol um be like there might be something there but we won't go into that right now um when you ask the question I tell you it's a fear in my life to even go on a podcast and be asked what my Housewives tagline is like I don't have one never ask me it I don't know when you ask people that do they like come on yeah yeah something I will ask a comedian off the cuff okay but a lot of times actresses or people who are sometimes people come on the show and they say to my talent producer I have a Housewives yeah and then sometimes people I'll say to them during a commercial break do you have a housewife sideline and they'll say no and I'll say can you come up with them and they'll say okay yeah give me a minute so it depends but I'll have one for you I do mine have changed I've had so many Through The Years my current one is I'm a father of two but a daddy to many oh oh I love that I feel like that's so your life that you are probably constantly thinking of them you're probably asleep at night being like Oh my God you came up with a new one give them to me um people give them to me all the time at book signings when I'm on a book tour when I'm just walking around people will come up to me and say I have a great tagline for you or people will say can I tell you my Housewives tagline I'm like yes please and speaking of you being a daddy first of all you are also with your kids at the park and I go with my kids to the park and it's funny people not from New York City or I was like did you see Andy who was there too and it's like not the same part right but we're both from New York City yeah um Lucy and Ben didn't she just turn a year old just turned a year old I have a new book out uh called the daddy Diaries the year I grew up and it's the third installment of my Andy Cohen Diaries series that all were like New York Times bestsellers they were and hopefully this one will be too and I'm very excited about it because I vowed not to write another one because my life it was great and I really loved the first two books but it was like okay this is just I'm it's like I'm going to parties and hosting my show and and and that's what this book is and dropping a lot of names but I I knew obviously that Lucy was on the way and my life had changed so dramatically that I just thought let me try this let me start writing it and see how it feels and it really it wound up I'm so proud of it and I think it's really funny and it's super gossipy and there's so much Housewives but what'd you say you had me at gossip yeah there's a ton and there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff from Bravo and Watch What Happens Live and it's very name-dropy in my personal life but also um it's got It's a lot about being a single dad and I'm really proud I was gonna ask you if you call yourself that like yeah I am and I'm proud of it and it's so hard it's so hard but uh I if I if I knew how hard it was I still would have done it and of course in theory I knew but I didn't no no yeah uh but it's something yeah they they're two or three years apart Ben and lizard they're three years apart he's four and she's one wow she's he's four would you say that was that age difference like planned for you you know what I was put I was going to Albany try surrogacy was illegal in the state of New York until and I helped get that law passed wow Governor Cuomo really he he really made it happen by the way so I went to Albany a couple times and I was I was out there you know trying to get it passed I wanted to have the baby in New York or I wanted my surrogate to have the baby in New York and so Lucy was one of the first surrogate babies born here and so I was kind that held me up a little bit uh but I also it was good because it gave me a lot of time to kind of get good at it with Ben yeah yeah so you would recommend that age Gap three years to each other yes he loves her yeah he loves her and the and the Bravo fans love them very sweet I feel like they really really love that side of you like your family it's totally new and I have to say it's it's opened up a new window with all the housewives like my relationship with the housewives like during breaks on reunion shows even at Jersey there was so much drama and emotion in the room but while we were breaking I was like talking to the women I'm like did you sleep train your baby oh yeah when your babies cry at night you go in there and it's fun to talk to them about that right get to know them on that level because they're all great moms right because that's like a connection that you both have that you both have kids yes okay so I told you before that I'm not on top of my bravo shows entirely like as much as I'd want to be all right do you have any friends that aren't at all um really most of my Posse um of good friends my friends by the way are my friends from and I dropped their names throughout daddy Diaries and they're in all of my other books but um they're my friends from high school and college and just out of college and I would say none of them watch really yeah but isn't that but then they can't really know what you're doing yeah they know they they have a sense they've all through the years met a lot of the housewives just from being around me for so long and they've come to kind of seminal shows of mine I had a bunch of them a bunch of them were in a box at the Legends Ball at bravocon they didn't know who anyone was but they saw what was happening and they loved it and they were happy for me yeah and they got a big kick out of it yeah yeah but it's interesting yeah they don't really well good for you I feel like I would be mad I'd be like at least like watch myself good I'm good okay you're like enough people love you yeah exactly um if I wanted to get well I I'm committed to New York and Jersey because I'm like East Coast I don't know but if I wanted to start another one which one would you tell me to like I mean Miami is so great right now yeah Beverly Hills in Beverly Hills I know I feel like Beverly um I want to tell everybody if you ever Wikipedia Andy under your personal life it just talks about your kids I feel like every celeb would die for that to be there you know what I mean I know like Wikipedia page this is up though it's all incorrect I don't know well we need to get on that yeah but how did you remain so private like relationship wise because it literally is like I haven't had a lot of long-term relationships and my last relationship um it was a few years and it was maybe ended five years ago and I kept it under wraps and then a friend of mine posted a group photo of all of us on some boat together and and tagged my ex and the Daily Mail saw it and then did like Instagram journalism and figured out that he and I had been in the same places a lot and they busted they busted him wide open and I was kind of bummed for him because he wasn't out to his dad and press started calling his dad so you're more protective of the person yeah because I'm fine with it I mean I feel like I feel like the next person that that I fall in love with um but you never like posted like a photo I didn't post us because that was his preference and so I just respected that so you would be open to like sharing that yeah sure it's like the right person absolutely unless the person was so thirsty and they were like I mean exercise there's a date in the daddy Diaries where I went out with someone and the next day and he took a selfie of us and then the next day he asked me why I didn't post the picture and asked me two posters and I was like okay and I said why is that important to you like what what is what is that to you oh so would you rather than a person not know you you know that's funny I'm on Raya and Tinder and most of the people that I swipe on either play it so cool or truly are not necessarily major Housewives fans I don't think you have to be though a Housewives fan yeah but you could know me but you don't have to be a fan of it yeah yeah that's okay I'm just saying I don't feel like does anyone admit it though is anyone like just honest like oh my God Andy no fancy yeah no sometimes yeah sometimes they do okay but do you appreciate that more I appreciate anything okay yeah I got you yeah I just want to tell you something yeah I used to think you were intimidating oh I don't anymore good I'm very not do people tell you that though I don't I think some people I don't know I think there might be some housewives that are intimidated or really I'm very I can come off as very all business or In My Own Zone yeah but I'm not I was fully cooked before I ever became famous there's this thing that you are the age you got famous there's this thing that you are the age you were when you got famous right that's famous exactly so I got famous in my late 30s or something or early 40s so I feel like I had been living in New York I mean I took the subway to work today like right you're not living that life I can't I love being bougie but I'm not I'm not you know what I mean I'm kind of still who I am yeah I think that's when I told you about the influencer thing before you know I'm obviously not on your level but I feel like age to me is such a I'm like I'm so happy I'm 35 right and I'm not like you know a little toddler no it's important yeah who you are there's no guidebook we've gotten we've made hundreds of people Super Famous at Bravo and there is no guidebook for how to be when you get famous yeah and it's very easy to lean into being a complete douchebag uh and so it's so I think that you're you know getting into this when you're later in your life is helpful because hopefully you already have your values and you're like okay I'm let me let me get a check of myself and you can say and by the way my friends and family totally keep me in yeah yeah they're like calm down right exactly wait I'm super excited about your book so it's out already thank you it is out on May 9th oh yeah two uh okay wait this will have come out it's out already Andy yes my book my book is out I'm on book tour and I'm really excited I really think people are gonna love it and by the way it makes a great month you know what I'm going to read it and I don't read a lot okay it's by the way it's an easy read oh God exactly I mean it's a diary yeah so it's not like you know yeah I love that okay I feel like you'll know every person in the book and every restaurant and every you know what I mean that's so fun yeah the last book I read was actually Kelly Ripa's book oh that was it was a fun book yeah she made me want to get BOTOX because she did a whole chapter on it by the way everybody yeah she was like don't you want to look refreshed I'm like I want to look regressed so before I let you go because you're a busy busy guy a couple games of uh Mary Kell okay A little really basic game I don't know if you've heard of that yes we play on Watch What Happens oh right you do so but like with um shows okay so Mary kill houses of New Jersey summer house Vanderpump Rules so which of those shows am I gonna kill Jersey summer house or Vanderpump yeah okay I'm gonna kill summer house yeah I'm gonna marry Jersey and shag Vanderpump okay yeah I love that okay next one with shows I know but I feel like your answer really made sense okay okay winter house Southern Charm Roni I'm gonna marry Roni because that's my show I'm gonna Shag I'm gonna Shag Southern Charm and kill winter house okay okay and last one but with people usually the newest one is gonna get killed I got you I got you your lesson I am a nostalgic person yeah I could tell I've known those summer how I've known those Southern Charm people for 10 years so yeah I love Southern Charm by the way it's one of my shows um okay these are people so we get to know your type a little bit okay since we don't see any other people John Mayer okay Brad Pitt yeah Pedro Pascal I'm gonna shag pit Mary Mayer and kill Pedro there will be an army after you for killing Pedro well excuse me who am I supposed to marry you're shagging Brad yeah but I mean you know if I marry mayor that means I shag oh and you and mayor love each other right yes okay all over my book oh really oh yeah yeah okay Pedro Pascal is out how do you feel about the love that Pedro is getting good for him I know isn't it nice though that all these like over 40 over 50 actors are like getting yeah all the love yes yeah you're not very excited about it yeah yeah you're like whatever okay last thing just about Vanderpump rolls um is is this the most insane coverage that a show has ever gone on Broadway I think I think it's the most sustained you know if you look at when Jen Shah you know was arrested that was huge if you look at the salahis crashing the state dinner at the White House that was Major sustained coverage um but this is this is big Erica Jane was Major right right right so there have been big Teresa going to jail was Major sustained coverage but to just feel like because I people are starting the show from the beginning yes I know do you guys like see it in the numbers like whoa certainly see I mean look Wednesday nights on Bravo are very much alive Watch What Happens Live has had a significant boost on Wednesday night wow certainly yeah wow and who would have thunk you guys I know it's just last season was like I know it was you know we had we had a couple uh Seasons that were kind of growth Seasons or um you know they were not the greatest yeah and this was a big rebound season to be like happy that it's happening but also feel like that I don't I wouldn't say I'm more kind of amazed that it's happening yeah they're real people there I think that people who you know Tom Sandoval made a mistake that'll probably regret for the rest of his life yeah he is still a person yeah you know what I mean it's gone I hope it's kind of dying down yeah for his I almost want to be team Sandoval just because not really but I almost do it because when the mob is mobbing right it's so hard yeah exactly yeah he's a real person yeah um he did something really stupid and hurtful and asinine and just every word he didn't kill anyone right so what he did not come up what's this recipe that that's what I'm trying I talk to people about this I'm like wow right it's not a big deal what is this exact because I think it's it's this exact recipe that happened I think it's that this cast is so incestuous and it's he's done it with with Ariana one of her best friends and and and while she's also been flirting with his best friend but you know what I think add to that people don't really like Sandoval and I feel right it just like oh we knew we didn't it was not really a reason yes and now there's like this huge yeah like reason yes anyway Andy what a dream that you came on my podcast thanks for talking oh my God thank you I appreciate it congrats on the Fresca collab thank you congrats on your book thank you I'm excited for the name dropping talk about it yeah I appreciate it

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Published: Sat Jun 03 2023