Considering he reigns over a drama-filled reality TV empire, it's a wonder that Andy
Cohen doesn't have more enemies. While he clearly appreciates the kinds of feuds that
make for good TV, he's occasionally found himself directly involved in the beef.
Here are the stars who can't stand Andy Cohen.
"Oh my God, this is amazing."
One of Cohen's most high-profile feuds was with comedian Kathy Griffin. It all started
when CNN announced that Cohen would be replacing Griffin on the network's New Year's Eve telecast,
after Griffin posed with a bloodied Trump mask, in 2017. Despite the fact that Cohen
and Griffin had collaborated on her Bravo show, Life on the D-List, Cohen joked to TMZ
shortly after Griffin's firing, saying,
"I don't know her."
Griffin quickly shot back, tweeting:
"[Andy] was my boss for 10 years. Treated me like a dog. Deeply misogynistic."
"I mean, I lost 90 percent of my friends."
Cohen later implied in a 2018 Howard Stern interview that Griffin was simply using him
as a punching bag, saying,
"I'll be that guy for you. If it makes you happy and gives you peace. I'm just not going
to take it on myself."
Real Housewives of Atlanta icon NeNe Leakes has had a notoriously contentious relationship
with Cohen, since 2008. In early 2015, Cohen and Leakes sparred on Watch What Happens Live
after Cohen asked about a supposed donation Leakes promised, but never made, to Detroit's
public schools.
"Will you ever donate to the Detroit schools?"
"Please stop asking me about the doggone schools. I will do what I want to do when I want to
do it, okay?"
The day after, Cohen revealed on Ask Andy that he said to Leakes:
"I said, '…Everyone on Twitter says that you were nasty to me on the show.' So we went
back and forth about that."
"I am a grown ass woman. And you're gonna have to talk to me with a little bit more respect."
Fast forward to December 2019, and Leakes was up in arms again after Cohen poked fun
at her for repeating one of her looks on the show. Leakes posted on Insta,
"It's enough that we [Real Housewives] ladies come for each other and now we have to worry
about executives coming for us."
The drama continued in February 2020 when Radar Online reported that Leakes could be
seeking legal action against Bravo for mistreating her, with a source claiming that her bad relationship
with Cohen was partly to blame.
Real Housewives of New York star Carole Radziwill has had an on-again, off-again feud with Cohen,
since 2012. The pair's issues began in 2018, when the star and fellow housewife Bethenny
Frankel had a falling-out, with Cohen admitting that he was stuck in the middle of his two
friends' drama.
"I need to know what's going on. What's happening."
"I think it's, like, an erosion."
Later that year, during the show's Season 10 reunion, Radziwill had enough of what she
saw as Cohen siding with Frankel. After Cohen called her out for acting "Trumpian" following
the reunion, Radziwill tweeted:
"Trumpian is what [Andy Cohen] did. Created a false equivalent. He said we both bashed
each other 'all season.' Look at the clips."
Radziwill departed the show after season 10.
Since the 2006 debut of The Real Housewives of Orange County, Vicki Gunvalson has been
a staple of the show. But in 2020, Gunvalson shocked fans when she announced that the show's
fourteenth season would be her last. But while she may be off the show, she's remained vocal
on her podcast about the fact that Cohen fired her from the show.
In a 2020 episode with fellow Housewives alum Tamra Judge, Gunvalson accused the Real Housewives
producers of ageism, claiming,
"We got very expensive and I think [the producers] said that viewers were ready for younger blood."
"I started this franchise. I will never come back part time."
Cohen, who had previously disputed the idea that Gunvalson and Judge were fired because
of their ages, was confronted directly by Gunvalson when he appeared on an episode of
her podcast. Gunvalson claimed,
"I don't want to be forgotten. I'm super sad. I hope the legacy I started will carry on."
"He doesn't tell me what to think! Ever!"
One of the most tense Watch What Happens Live interviews came when veteran actress Debra
Winger stopped by the show in 2018. On the episode, Winger snapped at an intimate question
about fellow actress Shirley McClaine, and then pushed back when Cohen asked her to rate
her onscreen kisses, snarking,
"Okay you remember somebody that you kissed 30 years ago?"
Cohen claimed that Winger was actually kind to him during the commercial breaks, only
to turn on him when the cameras were rolling.
"You're so sweet looking."
Cohen said,
"We really did connect, and during the commercial break, [Debra] kept saying, 'You know, you're
like my Jewish little brother. I feel connected to you.' But then when the camera came on,
she wasn't having me."
Tamra Judge was another star of Real Housewives O.C. to get canned after the show's 14th season
in 2020. Even though Cohen claimed that her firing didn't have to do with age, that wasn't
good enough for Judge, who told Cohen in January 2020,
"But I'm not cheap, Andy, and that's why I got fired!"
Judge then went on to describe the toll her impending departure had on her, telling Cohen,
"It's kind of like a death. I've been in the Bravo family for 12 years. I'm a red-headed
stepchild now. It is what it is. It's a very long run."
"It's just the ultimate betrayal, the ultimate betrayal."
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