CNN’s Andy Cohen And Anderson Cooper Don’t Drink Alcohol, But Find A Workaround - Deadline

“They brought america backmost for different year,” Andy Cohen crowed astatine the opening of CNN’s New Year’s Eve sum from Times Square. But “there’s immoderate stipulations this year, immoderate good print.”

Cohen and Cooper were celebrated for drinking liberally during their erstwhile stints covering the accepted Times Square countdown. Cohen successful peculiar became notorious for his alcohol-fueled diatribes, which past twelvemonth took down New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and TV property Ryan Seacrest. As a result, CNN ruled that drinking was retired connected this year’s unrecorded broadcast.

The drinking prohibition was addressed astatine the top.

“We can’t drink,” said Cohen, emphasizing that with a flimsy jump. “But that’s fine.” Cooper asked if Cohen would beryllium “able to marque it” done the broadcast. His spouse quipped, “Do I person a pouch of edibles? I don’t know. This is simply a agelong night. This is simply a telethon with nary disease.”

Still, the duo promised to worker on, and they recovered a workaround – they volition inactive toast their assemblage astatine the apical of the hour, but it volition beryllium without alcohol.

What the duo promised was a “mystery shot.” Covering their eyes, the assemblage gets to spot what they are drinking and toast with them. The archetypal changeable was “pickle juice,” which caused some to swallow hard.

Cohen guessed the foodstuff was herb juice, which helium confessed helium hates. Cooper claimed helium ne'er had a pickle.

Both hosts chased the enigma changeable with foodstuff boxes. “I similar tequila,” Cohen said.

There are 4 much enigma shots pending connected the nighttime