I won’t ever forget what I saw at Andy Cohen’s party. He may admit he’s hooking up with guys on every dating app… but this is the truth about men like him: KENNEDY
I won't readily forget salivating over the army of young, nearly naked men who gathered with me a few years ago for a New York Pride party. They were hot and drunk and dancing, and happy to be putting on a show for their beaming host, Andy Cohen, who apparently now hates them all.
To the casual observer, one would think these bouncing boys were exactly Andy's type.
So why did he go on the Call Her Daddy podcast last week and disparage these eager beavers as 'slurpy twinks'?
When asked by sex-obsessed host Alex Cooper about his dating life, Cohen went out of his way to dismiss the fervent young men who've seemingly been ubiquitous in his orbit, moaning: 'I don't want to be with some, you know, slurpy twink.'
You looked pretty happy in a sea of slurping sailors on that rooftop pool bar you rented out, admiral.
Note to Andy: the boys I ogled that night aren't into either one of us. Those transactional hunks were all hanging out because the booze was flowing and the vibes were free.
Lonely Cohen, now 57, says he's looking for love on a myriad of dating apps - from Grindr to Tinder and celebrity favorite Raya.
Why so many? Is he a romance glutton?
When asked by sex-obsessed host Alex Cooper about his dating life, Cohen went out of his way to dismiss the fervent young men who've seemingly been ubiquitous in his orbit, moaning: 'I don't want to be with some, you know, slurpy twink'
He even admitted to hooking up with men he found on classifieds website Craigslist.
So many choices, so little success.
Andy also told Cooper he doesn't want to feel that he must 'impress' people he's dating - which is rather convenient because there's nothing very impressive about being regularly photographed in the Hamptons each summer looking like a disheveled slob.
That Pride pool party wasn't the first time I'd met the original Bravolebrity.
I interviewed him nearly 20 years ago and, dressed in his nerdy, buttoned-up navy blue blazer, this peppy prep pretended he had never heard of me.
That's odd, because last year, when asked by the Hollywood Reporter if he would've dumped his job at CBS in the 90s to become an MTV VJ, he said: 'Oh my God, in a second! Remember MTV at the time? John Norris? Kennedy? VJs were superstars back then!'
Andy's admitted before how he begged CBS bosses to be let on air, but one brutal boss told him no because of his 'terrible crossed-eye situation.'
Eventually he got his revenge by rising to the top of the Bravo ladder, casting himself as the villainous ringmaster in the Real Housewives circus and turning rich, insecure women's lives upside down for sport.
It's no secret that Cohen and Bravo have been the subject of several lawsuits, the most recent and high profile being from former New York Housewife Leah McSweeney whose discrimination suit claims Andy is at the center of a vindictive, substance-fueled enterprise.
Formerly sober McSweeney alleges that Andy pressured her to fall off the liquor wagon in the pursuit of 'morbidly salacious reality television.' She also claims Cohen took cocaine and gave favorable treatment and edits to any Housewife who snorted with him.
Cohen has denied all her claims - but it's got me thinking: Queen Bitch's throne is a lonely seat.
With 60 coming fast round the corner, my advice to Single Andy is to turn the pink page, put the sex apps down and find the relationship you seek by finally being yourself - not some caricatured Bravo creation.
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