Andy Cohen Calls Anderson Cooper Live on Radio Show to Ask About Ryan Seacrest Dig: ‘Didn’t See’ Him Wave

04.01.2023 - 22:33 / usmagazine.com

After Ryan Seacrest claimed that Andy Cohen declined to say hello during their competing New Year’s Eve broadcasts, the Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host has defended his actions.

“Ryan, I don’t know, he’s got a big up about me two weeks in a row,” Cohen, 54, said during a Wednesday, January 4, episode of his “Radio Andy” show. “I don’t even know what. … I didn’t see Anderson [Cooper] turn around and wave. Usually what Anderson will do, and I should call him back and ask him about this, frankly. But I think he’ll yell at me if I do. Usually, if he’s waving at Ryan, he’ll say to me, ‘Hey, there’s Ryan.’ You know what I mean?”

Cohen and Cooper, 55, cohosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live while Seacrest, 48, helmed Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve. Both broadcasts were filmed live in Times Square in New York City, with the Real Housewives producer noting that normally they will all greet one another at some point.

“And then I’ll turn around and wave or I’ll say, ‘There’s Ryan,’ but [Anderson] didn’t do that,” Cohen said on Wednesday about his longtime pal. “Should I call him and yell at him about it?”

He then dialed up the Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty author to ask about the Saturday, December 31, incident.

“You probably don’t even know this because you’re dealing with, like, the House vote and all that,” Cohen said, referring to Congress’ voting process to elect a new Speaker of the House, before trying to ask Cooper about Seacrest’s comments on Live With Kelly and Ryan.

Cooper quickly interrupted his buddy to ask if he was going to “get me involved in a thing with Seacrest.”

“This is between you and I. This is a you and I thing because he said on the show that you very politely turned around and