Along with the ball dropping on New Year’s Eve, you can always count on people wondering if the best friends and CNN’s Live From Times Square co-hosts have ever dated.
When Andy appeared on Howard Stern’s radio show, he was asked, “What is it about Anderson Cooper that keeps you from falling in love with him?” The Watch What Happens Live host replied, “I just think it’s not what our relationship is based on. We’re just friends. That’s not a part of it. I think, at this point, we know each other too well. We’re not attracted to each other in that way.”
Funnily enough, the pair first met when they were set up on a blind date over 25 years ago.
“You know when straight people know two gay guys, they’re like, ‘Oh, you guys should meet,'” Anderson said on The Tonight Show in 2017, adding that when the two had a phone call to schedule the date, he “knew within 45 seconds I was never going on a date with Andy Cohen.”
He explained that Andy “violated” a cardinal rule” when it comes to dating the CNN host: He asked about Anderson’s mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.
“I wanted to date the Vanderbilt boy!” Andy admitted. “I was excited!”