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After doubling down connected his committedness to portion connected CNN's New Year's Eve Special, Andy Cohen revealed that neither helium nor Anderson Cooper volition beryllium getting tipsy on-air.
Ryan Seacrest Praises CNN's Less Boozy NYE After Andy Cohen Diss
UPDATE: Despite antecedently stating helium and Anderson Cooper would proceed their on-air boozy festvities connected CNN's New Year's Eve peculiar this year, Andy Cohen confirmed on Dec. 29 that neither helium nor his co-host volition beryllium enjoying drinks on-air this weekend.
"We aren't drinking," helium told Page Six, "but we're going to person a BLAST."
This caller comes the a day after Cohen doubled down connected his plans to portion connected the broadcast successful an interrogation with Rolling Stone published Dec. 28, stating, "Anderson and I volition beryllium the radical Partying connected CNN [though] we volition beryllium partying responsibly.
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No 1 can tell Andy Cohen to halt partying.
Despite CNN announcing that its New Year's Eve special volition include less intoxicant than successful years past, Cohen has promised fans they should inactive expect a tipsy night of amusive from him and Anderson Cooper.
"CNN said the correspondents volition not beryllium drinking," the Watch What Happens Live big told Rolling Stone. "Anderson and I volition beryllium the radical partying connected CNN [though] we volition beryllium partying responsibly."
"My occupation is to instrumentality Anderson retired of his comfortableness portion [and] my occupation is to beryllium a enactment ringleader for everyone watching america connected New Year's Eve," Cohen continued. "And that is what I volition proceed to do."
Indeed, he's a antheral connected a mission. "If the correspondents are not drinking this year," helium added, "I volition beryllium partying adjacent harder connected their behalf."
Last month, pursuing years of boozy antics—like Don Lemon taking shots connected aerial oregon Cohen calling New Year's Eve rival Ryan Seacrest and his guests a "group of losers"—the web announced it volition importantly pare down connected the drinks this year.
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A determination Cohen didn't instrumentality lightly. As helium changeable backmost connected the Nov. 16 episode of WWHL, "Anderson and I are going to enactment harder than we person ever partied earlier connected New Year's Eve!"
For his part, however, Seacrest—who hosts Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve connected ABC—is saying cheers to the move.
"I don't advocator drinking erstwhile 1 is connected the air," helium recently told Entertainment Weekly. "I don't cognize however that started arsenic a tradition, but it's astir apt a bully thought [to standard back], CNN."
(This communicative was primitively published connected Dec. 29 astatine 2:07 p.m.)
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