Andy Cohen (television personality)

Andrew Joseph "Andy" Cohen was born on June 2, 1968 in St. He is an American television host, producer and writer born in St. Louis. He is best known as the host of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Bravo; He is also known as the first talk show host in the American late night genre to openly say he is gay.

From news to channel management

After studying broadcast journalism at Boston University, she worked at CBS News for nearly a decade; He has produced shows such as CBS This Morning and 48 Hours. He moved to the Trio channel in 2000; When the channel was acquired by Bravo in 2004, he became Bravo's vice president of original programming. He later rose to senior vice president of development and talent, a position he held until 2013.

During this period, he played an important role in the development of The Real Housewives series, which was among the channel's most watched reality productions; He has also been presenting the end-of-season reunions of the series for a long time.

Presenting and writing

Watch What Happens Live started in 2009 and has become one of the channel's iconic programs. Cohen is both the host and producer of the program. His self-titled Radio Andy channel has been on the air on SiriusXM since 2015. Since 2017, he has co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast with Anderson Cooper.

As an author, he also published several books; These include his memoir, Most Talkative (2012), and his diary-format The Andy Cohen Diaries (2014) and its sequel, Superficial (2016). For his television work, he took part in productions that won awards such as Emmy and Peabody; He was awarded GLAAD's Vito Russo Award in 2019.