Andy Cohen is having some fun with BFF Anderson Cooper!
16.09.2022 - 13:53 / etcanada.com
Rosie O’Donnell revealed why she’d never been on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in its 20-year run as she chatted to Andy Cohen on Thursday’s “Watch What Happens Live”.
O’Donnell explained that she and DeGeneres “had a little bit of a weird thing.”
DeGeneres had gone on “The Rosie O’Donnell Show” back in 1996, where she revealed her character was going to come out as “Lebanese,” months before she famously came out as gay on her “Ellen” sitcom.
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O’Donnell told Cohen, “After my show went off the air, and her’s was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen and he said, ‘Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes. She came out as a lesbian and disappeared.’ And Ellen said, and I’m quoting, ‘I don’t know Rosie. We’re not friends.'”
She went on, “I was in bed with Kelli [Carpenter] and I went, ‘Did I just hear that or was that, like, a hallucination auditory voice?’ I’m like, no, and that’s what happened, and it hurt my feelings like a baby and I never really got over it.”
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The star revealed that she was eventually asked to appear on the show towards the end of its run to promote her comedy series “SMILF”, but bosses turned down her request to have someone join her to make it “a little less awkward.”
“I wish her all good things in her life and that she should be well. So there you go. But I never did it. I never did it,” O’Donnell insisted.
Andy Cohen is having some fun with BFF Anderson Cooper!
Oprah Winfrey, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres are among the moderators tapped to appear with former first lady Michelle Obama on her upcoming tour for her book The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times.
It’s tough to shock Andy Cohen, but Kelly Ripa managed to do it with the reveal that she and husband Mark Consuelos had sex in the Bravo exec’s house.
Kelly Ripa has worked with several co-hosts in her reign on daytime TV, most recently Ryan Seacrest, who sits alongside her for Seacrest, 47, joined the show in 2017 following Michael Strahan's feud-filled exit, and the pair seem to get along well. But on Thursday's Ripa, 51, was asked by some fans who her second picks for co-host were at the time. «It's so much a deeper discussion, and it has so little, actually, to do with me,» Ripa said of the selection process, which took a year before Seacrest was chosen. Referencing her longtime friends and fellow TV personalities, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, Ripa said, «I love my ACs, of course, but they have jobs.» She also mentioned her actor husband, Mark Consuelos, saying, «My MC I love, but he had a job too.
Greyson Chance is speaking out about his experience with former mentor Ellen DeGeneres.
Ellen DeGeneres is «manipulative,» «blatantly opportunistic» and «way too controlling» hours after a report surfaced detailing his once close relationship with DeGeneres and their fallout.The 25-year-old singer posted a video on TikTok Thursday and said he stands behind all of what he said in an explosive profile in which the singer also referred to DeGeneres as «domineering» in the months and years that followed after his 2010 appearance on as a 12-year-old who went viral when he performed Lady Gaga's «Paparazzi» at his Oklahoma middle school. «And I stand behind all of it,» Greyson said. «You know, I've been wanting to tell this story now for multiple years and was repeatedly told not to but the truth is, what you saw on TV and what was pitched out to the mainstream just wasn't what was happening behind the scenes.»Chance also said that getting older has helped him find perspective after all of these years.«Now that I'm 25 and I'm older, I can recognize that what happened to me as a kid was not cool,» he added.
Not here for the speculation. After Dorit Kemsley was accused of having an affair with Mauricio Umansky, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star is clearing the air.
Rosie O’Donnell is still hurt by a rude comment Ellen DeGeneres made about her. The actress joined Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live, where she revealed why she has no interest in having a friendship with the former host.A curious fan asked why O’Donnell was never on DeGeneres’ show during its 20-year run. O’Donnell revealed they never asked her and explained, “We had a little bit of a weird thing.” “After my show went off the air, and hers was coming on the air, Larry King was on with Ellen, and he said, ‘Whatever happened to Rosie O’Donnell? Her show went down the tubes.
Rosie O’Donnell is shedding some insight on why she’s not close with Ellen DeGeneres and why she never appeared on her show. During a conversation with Andy Cohen on "Watch What Happens Live," O’Donnell, 60, admitted that a conversation DeGeneres, 64, had in the past with Larry King really "hurt her feelings." O'Donnell was joined by "The Office" star Brian Baumgartner during her appearance on Cohen's show. O’Donnell told the Bravo host she invited DeGeneres on her talk show. However, the former "View" co-host shared that she was not invited on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" until the end of the 19th season.
Finally, some answers!
Anne Heche died, the 53-year-old actress was ready to tell the world the whole story of the Hollywood hate she endured during her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres in the late 1990s. Heche, who passed away in Los Angeles on Aug. 11 following a tragic car crash, detailed the discriminatory backlash she faced as half of Tinseltown’s first publicly gay couple in her forthcoming memoir “Call Me Anne,” the Associated Press reported. In the book, to be released in January by independent publisher Start, Heche grapples with the uncertainty of how to label her sexuality at the time, when she felt she didn’t identify as a lesbian or a straight woman. “I was labeled ‘outrageous’ because I fell in love with a woman.
Andy Cohen just introduced his three-year-old son Benjamin to someone very special in his life.
Still hurt. Rosie O’Donnell is getting candid about why she’s not exactly close pals with Ellen DeGeneres.
Rosie O’Donnell is getting candid about her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres.
Rosie O'Donnell may have paved the way for Ellen DeGeneres, but the 60-year-old actress and TV personality never appeared on DeGeneres' long-lived talk show. DeGeneres, now 64, jokingly came out as «Lebanese» on in 1996 ahead of her character coming out as a lesbian on her show. At the time, O'Donnell hinted that she too was a member of the LGBTQ+ community years before she publicly came out. But O'Donnell never appeared on On Thursday's, a fan asked why O'Donnell never appeared as a guest throughout the 19-season run of DeGeneres' famed talk show. «We had a little bit of a weird thing,» O'Donnell told Cohen of DeGeneres.
Alyssa Farah Griffin and Ana Navarro.“It took a year and two people to replace me which makes me feel good, and I get to take that,” she said on Andy Cohen’s SiriusXM show.When Cohen, 54, asked the former talk show host if she knew Farah Griffin or had any thoughts, she used it as a chance to shoot down the family of the former communications director in the Trump administration.“I don’t know her at all. The only thing I know about her is her family,” McCain said.
Meghan McCain left The View at the end of Season 24 in 2021 and the search to fill the conservative chair was extensive, a fact that the former daytime talk show host relishes. Following McCain’s departure from the ABC program, producers auditioned women over the course of the season landing on Alyssa Farah Griffin and upping Ana Navarro to permanent co-host.