Andy Cohen needs to have several seats.
Look, like most people I started out as a fan of Andy Cohen. But it didn’t take me long to figure out there was a problem with our relationship. That was in 2012. WWHL had just been bumped up to five days a week. That is when he started letting the misogyny flag fly right out in public. It’s also when the housewives shows started to be all about the catfights and the “shade.” It’s hard to remember a time when the housewives were not about bad behavior. But trust me, there was a kinder and gentler time and the ratings were just fine. We were taken to a place where we began to only respond to the fights and the deplorable behavior, slowly over time like an addiction that cried for more and more bad behavior. Then again last year, five years later, I sort of outlined the journey (sorry) that we have been taken on here.
So forgive me if I am not interested in his damn opinion on the situation with Kim Cattrall and Sarah Jessica Parker. In fact, as soon as Sarah Jessica Parker started taking Andy Cohen as her date to the Met Ball, I started to feel some kind of way about her. I wish he had not ruined Sex & The City and Carrie Bradshaw for me. But he did. He’s also tarnish Anderson Cooper for me a bit. Anderson Cooper! Why does he align himself with Andy Cohen? Kelly Ripa? Same thing. If you are close with Andy Cohen, particularly if you are a woman, I’m giving you serious side eye at this point.
So when the whole controversy about Kim being ostracized by the other girls during the filming of Sex & The City resurfaced after the tragic death of her brother, it put me off my overnight marathons of Sex & The City I sometimes play on the TV while falling asleep.
It seems to me there was always a feud between Kim and Sarah Jessica. Kim was older than the other girls and when they were not filming, they did not stay in touch. Kim felt Sarah Jessica was the head of the mean girls. So when Sarah Jessica sent a public tweet, instead of a private message to Kim, it didn’t seem particularly sincere. And Kim reacted by tweeting back, “My Mom asked me today “When will that @sarahjessicaparker, that hypocrite, leave you alone?” Your continuous reaching out is a painful reminder of how cruel you really were then and now. Let me make this VERY clear. (If I haven’t already) You are not my family. You are not my friend. So I’m writing to tell you one last time to stop exploiting our tragedy in order to restore your ‘nice girl’ persona.” She also included a link to a NY Post story outlining the behavior she endured on the set.
So of course, Andy Cohen had to weigh in on his radio show. He said, “I thought it was fake. I was like, There’s no way Kim Cattrall has posted this on her Instagram. This is a women who is in the middle of grieving the loss of her brother, which is tragic and sad.”
Is it me or does that come off as shade? I thought it was fake because she has more important things to deal with at this time in her life?
He went on to defend Sarah Jessica, “I also don’t like it that people are characterizing this as a catfight. There’s only one person fighting here! I even kind of, admittedly, didn’t try to stir it up on Watch What Happens Live when Sarah was on, but I was like, ‘What do you think?’ Sarah only said the nicest things about her … It’s a catfight of one from where I see it.”
You totally did try to stir things up on WWHL. Sarah Jessica just sidestepped your attempt to capitalize on the situation and said, ““It’s sad, but I always think that what ties us together was this singular experience. It was a professional experience but it became personal because it was years and years of our lives, so I hope that that eclipses anything that’s been recently spoken.” Because she knows when to shut up. Unlike Andy Cohen who just wants to jump right into the middle of things that don’t involve him.
Take a seat, Andrew.
AC needs to suck a D
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Ummm, Andy does suck D.
Andy Cohen REALLY needs to take several seats.
He needs to be VERY careful living in that glass house of his lobbing boulders the way he is.
I didn’t see any harm in SJP reaching out to Kim when her brother passed and I do not judge Kim for lashing out at SJP. Her beloved brother died. She’s in shock I’m sure.
However, I would not have tagged her in the tweet. That is just weird.
I’m on Kim’s side. It seems to show that her perspective and experience while filming SATC was valid. If Sarah has to get her “friends” and co-workers to come out on her side you know there’s more to the story. Andy really needs to mind his own bizniz. smmfh
He’s such a pig. What is it going to take happening in his world for him to get some compassion or empathy. The only people he seems to ‘get’ are degenerates like Teresa Giudice, that says something about HIS character. I’ve not watched a full WWHL in months, he feeds off pain and embarrassment, he’s a soulless vulture picking over the bones of sorrow. Some things deserve the sacredness of silence.
Thank you for perfectly expressing this truth.
Andy and his relationship with SJP is a little nauseating. I think Andy needed no comment. Leave Kim alone. It is not a RH Reunion.
I thought Kim had made her position clear, in the professional relationship she and SJP shared, Kim wanted the same kind of money as SJP. I don’t find that unreasonable. Kim contributed just as much to the success of SATC as SJP. I felt like Kim has been fairly clear she had no desire to make SATC3, and it was a wise one as SATC2 was awful. It wasn’t about money or scenes it was about moving her career forward. It then became all about unreasonable Kim. SJP has been teasing SATC3 for a couple of years. “It is the warming drawer.” Leave it alone. Once it was considered DOA, SJP tried to throw it back at Kim. Kim’s position had not changed.
I am tired of the world having to think SJP is the most beautiful, stylish, most accomplished actress and the greatest person to work for-all high ideals but I really don’t care about her reputation.
Big thumbs down to Andy for once again trying to be relevant in the situation.
? on all of this! ?
Totally agree. Samantha’s storylines for both the movies were horrible and I don’t blame her one bit for not wanting to do a third.
That show would have never been the same without Cattrall and she deserved her fair share. I did love the show but I am not a SJP fan.
Totally agree. From what I heard, Cattrall wanted her fair share and Parker actively fought against it. Parker had already become an exec producer by that point so what would it hurt to pay Cattrall more money? Also when she became EP is when Samantha’s storylines got worse and worse. The Samantha character was multidimensional and was reduced to a middle-age sex fiend. I loved the show too – just not a SJP fan either.
Yes, I didnt like the direction they were taking Samantha’s charecther at the end in those movies. They made it seem like Samantha hadnt ever learned a thing or evolved at all as she got older, and that wasnt true of the show. She went thru the seeing the ex Richard and ditching her boyfriend Jared Smith to get it on with Richard again, and then being very remorseful and humbeled by being escorted home by Jared, who waited all evening for her. She realized she had outgrown Richard and that shallow world. But in those movies they made a mockery of her charecther, and that she was back to only wanting to get laid and acting desperate about it too. And they had her dump Smith for no reason at all.
SJP is not beautiful, in fact a men’s magazines voted her “ugly”or unattractive a few years ago. Can’t recall the exact wording. At the time I thought that was mean but it was honestly the truth.
i Believe Kim.
Loved Jake Shears, That boy can dance.
i don’t think i’ve ever heard a non-Hollywood type, male or female call her beautiful in any way. The girl got hit with the ugly stick imo but i’d take her hair any day ?
Peter Griffin from Family Guy said she has a face like a foot.
SJP was recently on WWHL (before Kim’s brother passed away) and Andy said he spoke to SJP after the Piers morgan thing happened and SJP tried to change the topic but Andy kept pressing it. It’s on YouTube. It was a 30 min after show. Andy doesn’t need to chime in. And he completely contradicts himself by saying Kim should be grieving but then attacking her. I’m pretty sure Sarah Jessica can defend herself
Is SJP beating the bushes to speak up for her. Andy was an easy sell but there are others. He forever inserts himself into somebody else’s business and seems to think people value his opinion. Please let this man go away!
Kim Cattrall just lost her brother. I give her a pass on attitude. I do happen to agree that expressing condolences privately shows care toward the person. Tweeting them shows care for yourself. The statement is “aren’t I an amazing person”
I agree! A girl I went to high school died recently. I didn’t know her well but it didn’t stop all of these random people making posts how heartbroken then are with 100 crying emojis only to be back to taking sellfies 15 minutes later. Some people crave attention at any and all cost.
Andy Cohen ‘s day of scorn is fast approaching, no tv host infuriates me like he does. He’s too big for his britches.
Why hasn’t this happened yet???? It continues to baffle the shit out of me that Andy Cohen can say and do the things he does with little or no accountability. WTF is up with that? Can someone explain it to me because I am truly gobsmacked that it continues and certain celebrities continue to idolize this creepy guy.
Funny you mention Anderson Cooper, a couple weeks ago I commented that his friendship with Andy was making me respect him less and less. I think it was really the Kathy Griffin situation that’s soured me on Anderson.
Cohen treated Kathy like shit too when she was a Bravo employee.
I’m sure Andy’s fall from grace is coming soon. He definitely loves drama too much not to have some hidden of his own. I bet his “besties” will be running fast to distance themselves when that happens
Like rats fleeing a sinking ship. They are all up his ass now but as soon as the bomb drops, they will feign shock and dismay and dump him.
Andrew is a misogynistic asshole. If you don’t sit at his popular kids table you’re nobody to him.
I have painfully weened myself off of all things RH and AC but come here for the recaps because they are so much better.
I miss the days of original first seasons of RHOC when it was about real estate porn and the only fighting was between the Keough siblings, which was entertaining because it was real and relatable.
Not anymore.
? Agree with you! I’m trying to get Bravo Rehabilitation! I got off of NJ easily before this season and now I’m officially done with OC. I only watch WWHL if there is a star I’m a big fan of on, but cringe watch it cause Andy is such an ass!
LOL! Perfect description of how I watch WWHL…. cringe watching to see a favorite star.
^^THIS
So we have a friend whose cousin worked on Sex and the City. She said all the women were reasonably nice and SJP seemed sweet. The woman working on the show was an aspiring actress. On the last episode of the season (the one at the Hamptons where Carrie sees Big and he introduces her to his fiancee and she runs to the beach to throw up) my friends cousin was given a small part with a few lines. When SJP found out she went from “sweet” to snarky fairly quickly. She was rude to this young woman when this young person was about to have the most exciting thing happen to her in the beginning of her career. And apparently she was such a bitch for the few days they filmed the scene it got to the point where the girl didn’t even want to do the part any more. That’s my one SJP story. SJP was making A LOT of money off of this series and without Samantha it’s not the same and she knows it.
Dang it! That clinches it. A show I loved is tainted forever. I was reconsidering my SJP love – been a fan since Square Pegs – after finding out she was friends with that bitch Andy. It took a bigger hit when I saw Kim Cattrall’s version of working on SATC and why she wouldn’t do SATC 3. And now this.
I don’t blame Cattrall for losing her shit on social media either. If someone TRULY cared, they wouldn’t send condolences via twitter ffs, especially after SJP was spreading BS about Cattrall not doing SATC 3. To make this about her is sickening. Andy doing her dirty work and throwing shade at Cattrall is beyond disgusting.
And to whoever said above that Samantha became a caricature of herself in those movies was absolutely dead on. The first movie was ok and they should have left it there. The second one was an embarrassment, especially for Kim, who is a serious actress.
Of course, now I want to rewatch that Hamptons episode. 😉
Women can so often be just the way, that it sounds like Kim is alledging. I could believe it and that must have been hard to made to feel she wasnt as much of a fit as the others. So what if she was older than the others? I dont see why that should have made any difference, was only ten years, and they should have made every effort to be kind and include everyone, and to not leave anyone out. Kim is way prettier than SJP, maybe that was it. I agree the movies were awful, no where near as smart and funny as the show. I dont blame Kim one bit for not wanting a bad script and a reminder of the mean girl stuff she probably put up with for a long time so those women could think they were hot stuff..
SJP not just was making money off the series but still IS from her residuals as actress & EP in repeats – its on every day here in OZ on cable and is on during every week on free to air channels. When I am in the US Its always on every day no matter what cable service the Hotel uses – she’s not short of a quid. And nice or nasty the show was not the same without Samantha & she should have been paid more – especially due to the outre scenes she had to perform.
Quite frankly when i knew she was bff’s with Andy I liked her less, now even more
When on when is Andy Cohen going to get knocked down a leg or two?
Thank You for writing this! I feel exactly the same way as you do about AC! I liked him at first and then like you said his misogyny side came out and you can tell who he genuinely likes as guests on WWHL if he kisses their asses or shades them. He has been BFF with SJP for years and it speaks volumes that Matthew is happy for AC to escort her to the Met Ball instead of him! He is doing to Kim what he does with housewife cast members, stirring more of the pot to get himself publicity. That episode on WWHL the night before Kim announced her brother was missing was a total PR stunt to make Sarah appear sweet and innocent and Kim look bad. It was so transparent. Especially, when Willie aka Stanford Blatch tweeted to the show. He’s been shitting on Kim since SJP pointed the finger that Kim is the cause of the shit film not happening. He obviously needs a paycheck. Andy needs to stfu and stay out of this. SJP needs to once and for all leave Kim alone like she asked many months ago. She doesn’t respect Kim at all. I get why Kim did what she did. If I was emotionally distraught and a toxic co-worker kept doing this to me, I’d wish I had the balls to say F-off publically to them!
I meant peg, but autocorrect changed it to leg. Which actually is funnier.
LOL! The computer Gods know better than us!
SO disingenuous. If I “tweeted” or got in touch publicly in anyway on social media about death to any of my real friends or family, I would be suitably chastised and told to remove the post IMMEDIATELY.
I do not think that Kim Catrall would have blown up for no reason. I have been discretely in her company on a couple of occasions and from what I could observe, the woman is a class act. Much more so than SJP.
I think too, that Kim has every right in the world to make any decision for herself about not doing another movie, and doesnt owe anyone else a paycheck. She played Samantha Jones for such a long time. The fact that the movies didnt do the show justice at all, and the second one was way worse, makes it a very understandable choice too. Its Kim’s choice anyways, and SJP by being cruel and a bully should realize she played a role in Kim not wanting to do another movie. Its funny how bullies think their behaviour wont ever come back to haunt them some day. It allways does.The show had a real sensitivity, a smart sophistication, a great blend of drama and comedy that was never contrived, and just flowed.The movies were not the same way for whatever reason. I think its distasteful and self serving to send condolenses out to a long term co worker via social media. SJP should have made a personal phone call and sent flowers if she wanted to do something. But, either way if youre not treated well by someone in the past, it just doesnt ring sincere to reach out, especially in a shallow public way.
THIS ALL DAY!
SJP made life hell for Kim for years during the tv series & Kim was a real pro throughout, & went on through two bad movies as the trooper she is, but finally drew the line in a professional way & SJP showed her true colors publicly prior to the deatho f Kim’s brother. Her latest inexcusable stunt gives me the perfect reason to avoid anything in which she appears in the future, including reruns. I’m too old to put up with public tamnrums by over-privileged whiners. You aren’t all that, SJP.
If anyone wants to retreat to a better moment w SJP, her Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee exceeded all expectations. Moments of brilliance, really. Strongly recommend.
I did love that episode. Le sigh.
I am willing to bet the day will come come former guests like Oprah Winfrey will find themselves saying WTF was I thinking being on his show?
I can take or leave Andy, but he was standing up for one of his best friends? I would hope my friends would stand up for me. I say give him a break on this matter. There are plenty of other reason to hang him.
No, TT, it’s not just you, it was definitely shade when Andy said that he thought Kim Cattrall’s post was fake because her brother just passed away. Yes, he was standing up for his friend SJP, but this is more cynical than that, in that it was judgmental of Cattrall, and it’s not his place to judge how other people should mourn the loss of their loved ones. It’s really not his place to insinuate himself into this highly-sensitive personal issue between these two women at all, but it seems like he and SJP have developed kind of a symbiotic relationship wherein they feed off of each other, each for his/her own self-promotion. Seems like Andy is always looking for an opportunity these days, in both his personal and professional lives, to channel Jack Warner – it’s all about hagsploitation for his own personal gain.
There’s got to be a shit-tonne more to this story than what’s in the press. If SJP has been an absolute cunt towards KC for years in private and then suddenly decides to be all fake and sweet on social media during a traumatic time in the name of saving-face, then no wonder KC popped off. SJP is well known for her stank attitude off camera and AC is known for being a douche at all times, of course they’re BFFs. Not surprised at all that he’s inserted himself into their business.
Who’s andy Cohen?
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After watching WWHL the other night I think we all can say that Andy is definitely Pernicious!!
I liked Andy at first, too. Now I can’t stomach him.