Andy Cohen is among America’s top media personalities, having risen to prominence after helping bring the Bravo Network back to life and hosting a few shows on the network, including the network’s popular nightly series See What Happened Live with Andy Cohen .
Cohen resigned in 2013 after more than a decade as head of manufacturing and development at Bravo. However, he remains executive producer of The Real Housewives – a series that has been on the web since 2005.
The talk show/television host, producer, writer and radio host is the first openly gay American late night talk show host. Here’s everything you should know about Andy Cohen.
biography
Cohen was born in the U.S state of Missouri on June 2, 1968 to Jewish parents – Evelyn and Lou Cohen. His full name is Andrew Joseph Cohen and he attended Clayton High School, graduating in 1986. After high school, he was admitted to Boston University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism.
While in college, he wrote for The Daily Free Press (student newspaper) and worked as an intern at CBS alongside Julie Chen. After his internship, Andy Cohen stayed with the network, where he worked for ten years as senior producer of CBS This Morning, The Early Show (an early-morning show that aired on the network from 1999 to 2012), and 48 Hours. He worked at Trio before Bravo took over the network, after the two networks merged in 2004, Cohen became the new vice president of the original program.
He has hosted several talk shows and made guest appearances on many others such as the Saturday Night Live, Today, Live! featuring Kelly, Morning Joe, The Comeback, The View, What Happens Live and many more. He has hosted Miss USA three years in a row (2011, 2012 and 2013) and hosted Miss Universe twice (2011 and 2012). He refused to host Miss Universe 2013, which will be held in Russia.In 2015, he hosted Hollywood Game Night and also co-hosted NBC’s New Year’s Eve with Carson Daly. He has authored three memoirs that have become bestsellers. His autobiographical memoir Most Talkative: Stories from the Frontiers of Pop Culture which was published in 2012, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year came two years later in 2014 and The Shallow: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries.
Andy Cohen has also made a few film appearances. In 2017 he appeared as himself in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmid and in 2018 he also played himself in the American teen series Riverdale. In 2016, he launched his own SiriusXM channel “Radio Andy” and launched a new show Then and Now . He has received several awards, including a Peabody Award for his role as executive producer of The N Word (Documentary) and an Emmy for Top Chef .
Wealth (income and earnings)
Cohen is arguably one of the highest-paid media figures in the country. According to CelebrityNetWorth.com, Andy takes home $2 million annually and his net worth is estimated at $15 million.
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Is Andy Cohen gay? Who is his husband, partner?
Cohen is openly gay. He made the bold move to get out of the closet during his time at Boston University, but confessed it was one of the most difficult and scary decisions he’s ever made.
And as his parents took the news, he said he never had to say anything because his mother accidentally found a letter he had written to someone else and confronted him about it. He opened up to her and she understood perfectly and even made a joke out of it. Cohen is the only gay person (for now, at least) to host an American late-night talk show.
Andy Cohen is not married but was in a relationship with Harvard Ph.D. Student, Clifton Dassuncao until April 2018 when the duo called it quits. When asked about the reason for the spill, he said, “I didn’t sign up for a reality show.”
When asked what he’s looking for in a partner, Cohen admitted he wants someone very independent who has his thing up and running and maybe someone who’s never seen The Real Housewives. The Bravo TV personality is currently single and ready to mingle.
