Andy Cohen still plans to drink at NYE despite ban, jokes he’ll ‘flare up’ PKBNEWS
Andy Cohen is thirsty and determined to drink.
The ‘Watch What Happens Live’ host doubled his drinking on New Year’s Eve, despite PKBNEWS trying to ban alcohol on his broadcast.
“It’s fun for me because I’m a guest on PKBNEWS, so I’m like a visitor,” Cohen told Rolling Stone in an interview published Wednesday.
“I’m just going to get back to Bravo at 12:30 in the morning and get this over with, and so I can kind of burn the place down while I’m at it and then leave.”
Cohen, 54, said his “job” as a co-host with longtime friend Anderson Cooper is to get the PKBNEWS presenter, 55, “out of his comfort zone” for the night and s have fun.
“I’m just going to go back to Bravo at 12:30 in the morning and get this over with,” Cohen told Rolling Stone.
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“My job is to be a party cheerleader for everyone watching on New Year’s Eve,” Cohen told the magazine. “And that’s what I will continue to do.”
Cohen, who has co-hosted the PKBNEWS show since the 2017-2018 celebration, made headlines last year when he described the performers on Ryan Seacrest’s ABC show as “a bunch of losers “. He apologized days later, but Seacrest said earlier this week he supported PKBNEWS’s decision to cut the booze in light of Cohen’s remark.
“I’m not advocating drinking while on air,” the longtime “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” host told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Monday.
“I don’t know how it started as a tradition, but it’s probably a good idea [to scale back]PKBNEWS.
Seacrest, 48, went even further with his jab and described Cooper as “a serious reporter” and Cohen as “a lot of fun”.
“[I don’t] think they would say what they said about our artists if they weren’t drinking,” the “Live” co-host added.