CNN’s Andy Cohen nonetheless plans to drink on New Yr’s Eve regardless of a report detailing how the community would bar different correspondents and anchors from on-air alcohol consumption.
Cohen, who has been internet hosting the community’s “New Yr’s Eve Reside” program alongside Anderson Cooper since 2017, revealed his consuming plans to Yahoo Life on Thursday.
The host’s feedback come after CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht, who was named as the top of the community in February, instructed workers this week that he believes on-air consuming damages CNN’s “respectability” amongst viewers, in accordance with Selection.
The New Yr’s Eve program has made for a variety of viral moments prior to now, together with Cohen’s roast of former New York Metropolis mayor Invoice de Blasio and the “broke dick” alternate between CNN’s Don Lemon and comic Dulcé Sloan.
The community will nonetheless permit Cooper and Cohen to drink alcohol through the broadcast, Selection reported, however different anchors and correspondents can not.
Cohen instructed Yahoo Life that he believes New Yr’s Eve is an evening to go exhausting, and he promised to just do that this yr.
“I believe folks take pleasure in watching me attempt to get Anderson plastered, and I shall be,” Cohen mentioned.
“The announcement yesterday was that CNN doesn’t need their correspondents consuming on New Yr’s Eve. I believe that individuals don’t perceive. I shall be consuming on New Yr’s Eve — simply relaxation assured of that.”
In response to the Selection report, Cohen additionally instructed his “Watch What Occurs Reside” viewers this week that he vowed to “occasion more durable” on this system with Cooper.
You'll be able to watch a clip of his remarks beneath.
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