New 12 months, new face? Not fairly, says Andy Cohen.
The Bravo head honcho, 57, raised eyebrows after showing refreshed whereas co-hosting CNN’s “New 12 months’s Eve Reside” with Anderson Cooper on Dec. 31. However he’s taking the facelift hypothesis as a praise.
“I’m so flattered,” Cohen mentioned on the Jan. 5 episode of his SiriusXM present, “Andy Cohen Reside.” “I really like the hypothesis that I’ve dramatically modified my face.”
The “Watch What Occurs Reside” host clarified that he hasn’t had any cosmetic surgery, nevertheless — just some minor touch-ups.
“I obtained the teeniest little bit of Botox,” he defined. “I obtained 4 minor veneers in entrance. I imply, they’re fairly minor.”
Cohen additionally copped to going a bit overboard within the make-up chair earlier than the published, asking Cooper’s make-up artist to bronze him up greater than ordinary.
“She’s like, ‘Are you OK?’” he recalled. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, heat me up just a little bit. Give me some extra tanner.’”
The additional colour didn’t go unnoticed by viewers at dwelling. “There have been loads of feedback that had been like, ‘Wow. It is a beaten-down woman,’” Cohen mentioned with fun.
One Threads person was notably blunt in regards to the host’s new look, writing, “WTF did he do to his face?!? Is he looking for a brand new husband at Mar-a-Lago?”
Cohen responded instantly: “Did the smallest quantity of Botox and misplaced 20 kilos! And had loads of make-up on.”
Monica Lewinsky got here to Cohen’s protection, calling him “[very] good-looking” in response to the criticism.
Cohen’s Botox use is a comparatively latest improvement. In March, throughout the “Married to Drugs” Season 11 reunion, he admitted to attempting the process for the primary time, getting “just a little” injected a few month prior.
As late as November 2024, he mentioned on the “The right way to Fail” podcast that he’d by no means tried the injectable — regardless of years of encouragement from the late Joan Rivers.
“Joan Rivers, earlier than she died, used to beg me to get Botox,” he shared on the time. “And each man that I do know who’s internet hosting a TV present — primarily all of them are youthful than me or about my age — all of them have had Botox.”
The legendary comic first allotted the recommendation practically 20 years in the past, when the 2 had been engaged on a 2006 pilot.
“The very first thing she mentioned to me after I went in to audition was, ‘You gotta get Botox. You need to get Botox,’” he instructed “At the moment” in 2014. “I by no means did, and I used to be considering final night time, perhaps I ought to get just a little shot in tribute to Joan. I believe it could be a pleasant tribute to her.”
As for the load loss, Cohen has been open about “micro-dosing” a GLP-1 remedy — the category of medicine that features Ozempic and Mounjaro — to shed about 20 kilos.
“I used to be actually sad with my weight,” the dad of two shared on his radio present in September. “My physician and I talked about this final 12 months, had really helpful a GLP-1 a couple of occasions to not solely deal with what I used to be feeling about my weight, however deal with plaque in my arteries and hypertension.”
