The New Year’s Eve party on CNN, at which Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen have been known to do tequila shots live on air, is still on, Cohen insists.
Cohen said on Wednesday Rolling stone While the correspondents may not be drinking, “Anderson and I will be the partying people on CNN [though] We will party responsibly.
In November, CNN President and CEO Chris Licht told employees that on-camera drinking was damaging the network’s “respectability” and set a new policy to ban alcohol. According to semaphoreLicht later said that the policy was a “joke” and that he would prefer “not to drink on-air at all”.
My job is to push Anderson out of his comfort zone [and] My job is to be the party leader for everyone who watches us on New Year’s Eve,” Cohen said. “And that’s what I will continue to do. And in fact, if the reporters aren’t drinking this year, I’ll be partying even harder on their behalf.
Cohen will once again join Anderson for CNN’s live broadcast from Times Square in New York City.
Cohen said, “One of the great things about doing New Year’s Eve with Anderson is that I don’t have to plan anything.” “New Year’s Eve is a holiday that stresses people out; It hardly ever saves. For me now, this is going to be my sixth year, and it has delivered every year. i absolutely love it.
Ryan Seacrest, who hosts Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on ABC, said he agrees with the drinking ban and does not broadcast himself. “I prefer not to do it on live broadcasts so I get the countdown right, I don’t want to screw it up,” he explained. ew earlier this week.
