Kathy Griffin ‘Hate-Watched’ Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen’s New Year’s Eve Special: ‘I Was Erased’

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Changing the channel? After being fired from her New Year’s Eve hosting gig, Kathy Griffin revealed that she still “hate-watched” Anderson Cooper and her replacement, Andy Cohen, on the CNN special.“This is a guy that I think kind of wanted to be me.

And now he’s halfway there,” Griffin, 61, said in a New York Times profile on Wednesday, January 19, about tuning in to see Cohen, 53.Cohen has been hosting with Cooper since Griffin’s departure in 2017.

This year’s live broadcast from New York made waves more than usual when the Real Housewives producer made headlines for his comments about Bill de Blasio.“Watching Mayor de Blasio do his victory-lap dance after four years of the crappiest term as the mayor of New York — the only thing that Democrats and Republicans can agree on is what a horrible mayor he has been,” he yelled after taking several shots with Cooper, 54, on the December 2021 special. “So, sayonara, sucka!

2022! It’s a new year because guess what? I have a feeling I’m gonna be standing right here next year, and you know who I’m not going to be looking at dancing as the city comes apart?