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01.01.2024 - 02:55 / variety.com
Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper rang in 2024 with some boozing on live television — bringing back alcohol consumption to CNN after staying sober for last year’s New Year’s Eve broadcast. “It’s the top of the hour and we’ve been here for seven years doing this, and for most of those years at the top of the hour we typically have a toast,” Cohen said early on in the broadcast, turning to Cooper. “I’m hearing from a lot of people…does Daddy get his juice?” “Can Daddy get his juice responsibly?” Cooper asked, before Cohen pulled out a bottle of tequila and shot glasses, and both imbibed to start the show.
Back in November 2022, then-CEO Chris Licht announced that CNN would be dialing down alcohol consumption for its New Year’s telecast. Regular host Cohen was quick to claim that that rule, in fact, did not apply to him as a host, though he and Cooper elected to take shots of non-alcoholic beverages like buttermilk and pickle juice in solidarity with the rest of the staff. “CNN said the correspondents will not be drinking,” Cohen said.
“Anderson and I will be the people partying on CNN, [though] we will be partying responsibly.” Cohen was quick to get ahead of things in recent months, publicly imploring CNN, now under new CEO Mark Thompson, to allow on-air drinking for this year’s broadcast. “I haven’t heard anything yet, but come on, they need to let us drink,” Cohen told E! News in November. “It’s New Year’s Eve.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director As promised, Jeremy Renner is kicking off 2024 by returning to acting. The Oscar nominee took to Instagram to post a selfie from his first day on the set of “Mayor of Kingstown” Season 3, which notably marks his high-profile return to acting following his near-fatal snow plow accident last year. “Day one on set,” Renner’s caption reads.
and Ashley Judd bonded over talking about the suicides of their beloved family members.Judd was on Wednesday’s episode of Cooper’s CNN podcast, “All There Is with Anderson Cooper,” to discuss the death of her mother, Naomi Judd, who died by suicide in 2022.Cooper’s brother, Carter, died by suicide in 1988 by jumping off the terrace of his mother Gloria Vanderbilt’s 14th-floor Manhattan apartment. He was 23.Judd said that her mother’s death was “traumatic and unexpected because it was death by suicide and I found her.”Still, she told Cooper she was “so glad” that she was there.“Even when I walked in that room and I saw that she had harmed herself, the first thing out of my mouth was, ‘Momma, I see how much you’ve been suffering and it is OK … I am here, and it is OK to let go.’ ““And she heard you?” Cooper asked.“Oh, she heard me,” Ashley replied.
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BreAnna Bell CNN reached a new record high with its 2024 New Year’s Eve special as hosts Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen brought booze back to the live celebration. The Sunday night telecast averaged 2.33 million total viewers during primetime across platforms through two days of viewing, 802,000 of which were among the adults 25-54 demographic. That’s a 12% jump from the previous year, making it the second largest audience on record since it began airing in 2007.
Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Burr and Roy Wood Jr. all had the same answer.Mark Normand.Normand, 40, isn’t new to the scene, though. The veteran comic cut his teeth performing multiple sets a night for years at bars, clubs and theaters all over New York City.And now, the hardest working comic’s hard work is paying off.In July 2023, Netflix released Normand’s latest one-hour special ‘Soup To Nuts’ and next he’s embarking on his nationwide ‘Ya Don’t Say Tour’ this winter which includes back-to-back shows at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Friday, Jan.
John Mayer has gone viral after taking part in a New Year’s Eve interview, live from a cat bar in Japan.The moment took place during a live interview for the CNN New Year’s Eve broadcast over the weekend, when the singer, songwriter and guitarist tuned in live from a bar filled with cats in Tokyo.Mayer had been spending time in Japan to perform three shows at the Blue Note jazz club in Tokyo between December 29 and 31, and following his final gig had visited a venue called Cats In The Box.However, during the interview it was co-host Anderson Cooper who fell into hysterics as he was not expecting the musician in the unconventional interview location.“It’s a place you can come, enjoy a drink or two and talk to cats. It’s a cat bar.
Jeremy Renner is days away from returning to production on Season 3 of Mayor Of Kingstown, one year after a snowplow accident that nearly claimed his life.
network imposed a ban on drinking alcohol last year.Cooper, host of “Anderson Cooper 360°,” and “Watch What Happens Live” host Cohen, made sure to be on their best behavior when they both downed shots of tequila while on air.The topic surrounding CNN’s alcohol restriction was brought up within minutes after going live from Times Square at 8 p.m., when Cohen, 55, asked Cooper, “Does daddy get his juice?”“Speaking of traditions, it’s the top of the hour. We’ve been here for seven years doing this, and for most of those years, well, at the top of the hour we typically have a toast,” Cohen goes.
Jeremy Renner made an appearance on CNN’s 2024 New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen on Sunday night (December 31).
Jeremy Renner has revealed a major step in his career after a terrible accident nearly took his life: He’s headed back to the set of “Mayor of Kingstown” to film the third season. Renner was involved in a near-fatal accident on Jan. 1, 2023, after saving his nephew from being hit by a snowplow.
Ryan Seacrest got President Biden to talk about all the chicken parmesan he ate over the holidays while Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper revealed whether they ever need to pee during the show, as both ABC and CNN rang in the new year with their annual specials.
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