Andy Cohen has one of the most vibrant shows in late night TV. However, every host has regrets about letting certain guests slip through the cracks instead of having them on.
Now, the Watch What Happens Live host is opening up about how he regrets not having Meghan Markle as a guest when she was still on Suits and before she married Prince Harry. He also discusses how he’ll stop praising people for using Ozempic for weight loss.
Meghan had previously discussed how she was a huge fan of the Real Housewives of Orange County. However, despite the connection she would have had with the show, he turned down her request to appear. He said in his book that he said no to the request because Suits looked like “some simulation of a TV show to me like it was shot on tape and broadcast in a vacuum.
He later told Page Six in an exclusive interview that saying no to her coming onto the show was a “huge mistake.” Of course, the two later met when she had him on her podcast. Apparently, he was eager to say, “Were you silent… or silenced” to Meghan, but she had no idea what he meant. Of course, the line comes from the interview that she and Prince Harry did with Oprah.
In other Andy news, he is responding to backlash for how he praises Real Housewives cast members for losing weight with the use of drugs like Ozempic. Of course, there are other examples of this behavior, but the backlash mostly stems from how he complimented Dolores from The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
He starts the encounter by saying, “Dolo, you look thin. Ozempi?” She confirmed that she was using the drug to lose weight, and Andy goes, “What Housewife isn’t on Ozempic?”
Dolores admits to being on Ozempic ahead of the Jersey reunion. Unhealthy and triggering. #rhonj pic.twitter.com/nEmI1nvyPd
— BravoBabe (@thebravobabe_) April 5, 2023
The two then banter about how all the housewives are on it. Of course, the problem is that Ozempic is a drug made to treat Diabetes. It has quickly become widespread in Hollywood despite its intended purpose. The other problem is that the widespread usage of it as a diet medication has caused a shortage for people who need it for type 2 Diabetes.
Andy says that he will be much more sensitive with the topic in the future.
He said in an interview with ET, “What I have been careful to say (since then), especially with Emily Simpson, who lost a ton of weight, is, ‘I thought you looked great before. You still look great.”
He continued, “The note (to self) is: Don’t pat someone on the back for being thin, because what you’re then doing is perpetuating a false narrative about beauty, and that’s not right.”
Source: NewsFinale
