Ryan Seacrest Tells Kelly Ripa That Andy Cohen Wouldn’t Turn Around to Acknowledge Him ​​on New Year’s Eve

03.01.2023 - 20:47 / usmagazine.com

Throwing shade? Ryan Seacrest claimed that Andy Cohen didn’t say hello to him on New Year’s Eve despite the American Idol host trying to get his attention.

“It was funny because my big stage was right in front of Anderson [Cooper] and Andy,” Seacrest, 48, recalled on the Tuesday, January 3, episode of Live! With Ryan and Kelly. “When I was not working, I was trying to get their attention.”

Seacrest showed Kelly Ripa how he waved at CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live stage to get the cohosts’ attention. “I thought maybe I was in the shot,” he explained. “I just wanted to wave and say high. They have a great show. And Anderson, the best. He turns around and he says, ‘Have a good show.’ Very nice. Andy did not turn around.”

Kelly Ripa, however, claimed that the Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen host, 54, did try to say hello to his Seacrest. “That’s not true. He said he was trying to get your attention,” the All My Children alum, 52, said.

Ripa, who is friends with all three hosts, watched Seacrest on Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve on ABC as well as Cohen and Cooper, 55, cohost CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live.

“Usually, ABC and CNN go to commercial at the same time. This year, they did not which was enormously helpful,” Ripa quipped, noting that she divided her time by flipping between her friends’ NYE specials.

Last year, during CNN’s December 2021 end-of-year special, Cohen made headlines when he insulted Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.

“If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing,” the Real Housewives producer said at the time. “I’m sorry but if you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing.”

Although many of Cohen’s comments from the night went viral, he admitted that he only regretted what he