WATCH: Why You Don’t Want Anderson Cooper Giving You A “Hand”
Andy Cohen’s Watch What Happens Live Exclamation Point was surprisingly not so self-centered last night. Cohen pitted Camille Grammer and Anderson Cooper against each another in a quiz segment. Here’s what we learned about the Coop:
1. He was destined to become family. In 1976, Gloria Vanderbilt dressed 9-year-old Anderson in bitchin’ yellow riding pants and stripper-worthy knee-length leather boots. Girlfriend looked fierce.
2. His mom wrote cheesy romance novels. Cohen embarrassed Cooper by reading off a particularly treacly sentence: “You carried me naked to the center of the fountain shell, placing me precisely where the water, warmed by the sun, would trickle down between my legs, finding the spot to please.” Gag!
3. He gives terrible handjobs. See his reluctant shake-weight session at the 3:20 mark.
I saw the show, and for someone in the public eye,
and obviously the center of so much attention,
he was suprisingly awkward in his interpersonal reactions.
I guess he’s more comfortable hiding behind asking the questions,
than being “on the spot” to come up with answers.
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@Austin – not That Austin: Which is why I watched his daytime talk show for two episodes and switched back to “The Talk.” When Julie Chen looks more relatable, something’s wrong, honey boo boo.
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Anderson probably knew that he used the shake weight the way it was supposed to be used, it would be all over the internet with salacious jokes about him jerking off or giving a hand job. He may have deliberately held back. Anderson has said many times himself that he’s socially awkward, I actually think that’s part of his appeal.
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Anderson is so likable, I’m a huge fan.
Also, anybody who posts here about his sexuality (I know people eventually will) needs to back off. He’s a journalist who goes on location to places around the world where being gay is punishable by death. Rachel Maddow doesn’t do that, so don’t compare her to him. Anderson can’t publicly comment on it. Otherwise, certain governments probably wouldn’t even let him into their country to report.
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@Jennifer: You mean other governments don’t have cable? In what alternate universe?
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Anderson Cooper looks older than his 100 year old “mummy”, Gloria Vanderbilt.
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@Chuck: As do must people outside Andy Cohen’s clubhouse.
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@Joe Ciccone: He meant “Andy” as in Andersonn Cooper, i.e., the guy who talked about liking My Super Sweet 16 and Toddlers & Tiaras. *You* funny?
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At the end of the day, Anderson has the right to live the life he wants. And if he wants to shout out “I’m a homosexual!”, from the mountaintops, let him. And if not…let him.
This man has no obligation to make himself some outspoken martyr for the gay community. He doesn’t deserve all of this venom.
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Don’t you ever again say one word against the silver fox. He’s got it all: the biceps, the handsome mug, and the girlish giggle. And anyway, hand jobs are so ten minutes ago.