Andy Cohen speaks to The Hollywood Reporter on the 10-year anniversary of Bravo's 'Watch What Happens Live' about beg the only gay late-night host on TV, succs and 'Real Hoewiv' fandom.
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- ANDY COHEN ON 10 YEARS OF LATE NIGHT AND WHY HE’S NOT SURPRISED TO STILL BE THE ONLY GAY HOST
- JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
- ANDY COHEN TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY LATE NIGHT HOST?
- ANDY COHEN ON 10 YEARS OF LATE NIGHT AND WHY HE’S NOT SURPRISED TO STILL BE THE ONLY GAY HOST
- ANDY COHEN REVISS HIS COMG OUT STORY: "IT'S A GREAT MOMENT TO BE GAY"
ANDY COHEN ON 10 YEARS OF LATE NIGHT AND WHY HE’S NOT SURPRISED TO STILL BE THE ONLY GAY HOST
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Heather Gay has fally revealed the tth about what happened the night she got her famo black eye, though The Real Hoewiv of Salt Lake Cy (RHOSLC) fans might not be too happy wh what she the Bravo show's season 3 rnn, which aired on Wednday, January 25, Gay was nonted by host and anchise boss Andy Cohen about what really happened on the trip the st took to San Diego.
"RHOSLC" star Heather Gay has opened up about what happened the night she got her famo black eye. Gay stars on RHOSLC wh fellow ma st members Jen Shah, Whney Rose, Lisa Barlow and Meredh Marks, as well as addnal stars Angie Katsanevas, Angie Harrgton and Danna an episo that aired December 2022, the st travelled to California for a trip. Gay was seen revealg a bised and swollen eye after a night of drkg, but refed to say how she had staed star at first said she didn't "rell" how happened, but Gay then told her -stars, and later repeated her nfsnal terview wh producers, that she knew exactly how she had got the black eye.
However, she jt didn't want to talk about, durg the RHOSLC rnn, Gay has revealed the tth, admtg that she actually do not know how she got the black eye as she was so dnk, she "blacked out. "The nfsn is sure to trate fans who have been sperate to know what happened to Gay's eye, pecially as she teased the past that she, and others the st, knew how she got the grilled by Cohen, who poted out that there had been several varyg stori om Gay herself about her eye, the 40-year-old said: "I blacked out. Pictured: (left to right) Meredh Marks and Heather Gay on the "RHOSLC" season 3 rnn.
JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN RECEIV OVERWHELMG SUPPORT AFTER G OUT AS GAY
Beg Asian Amerin and LGBTQ+ n feel lonely, wh stutns such as ethnic church often disavowg non-heterosexual relatnships while tradnal LGBTQ+ spac such as gay bars n be unwelg. * bravo gay night *
Gay told host Andy Cohen that she do not remember what happened to her eye. "I woke up terrified, " Gay said, before Cohen asked: "So, why say that you knew what happened? ""Bee I was sred that they would rewre the narrative, " Gay replied, before clarifyg that the "they" she was referrg to were her then said she took "full rponsibily" for the fallout om the black-eye mystery, cludg the many theori about who uld have done , sayg the whole thg "spun out of ntrol.
ANDY COHEN TO BEE FIRST OPENLY GAY LATE NIGHT HOST?
Durg last night's "Real Hoewiv of New Jersey" rnn special, got real (well, more real than ual) when host Andy Cohen stepped to exprs his personal opn about one of the hoewiv' hbands loose e of the term "gay" as an sult. "I'll jump , and I have no bs jumpg , but I'm gay, and I thought was offensive," said Cohen. "I mean, I jt want to say...I thk was offensive." It may not be a g out - but 's noteworthy, nsirg the glass ceilg the exec/host is about to break. * bravo gay night *
" "I'm really sorry, " she qutned by her -star Barlow about why she wasn't hont om the start about not rememberg, Gay said: "I would have choked on the words, Lisa! Heather Gay, pictured on "RHOSLC" season 3.
ANDY COHEN ON 10 YEARS OF LATE NIGHT AND WHY HE’S NOT SURPRISED TO STILL BE THE ONLY GAY HOST
It's my own guilt and shame about not beg able to expla , " she then asked Gay if she thks her iend Shah, wh whom she was partyg her room on the night of the cint, uld have punched her the began to get fltered and said: "I don't know. "Gay nied she was verg for Shah, who was awag sentencg for her d se at the time the episos aired, but said, if she knew Shah had h her, she would lie for her. That’s one of the hallmarks of the show, ” says Cohen, who remas the only gay late night host on TV, of the pop-culture powerhoe he’s created.
He also shar his hop for more diversy across the late-night dial (“It’s time for a work to put a woman on five nights a week”) and teas a Bravo float that is “gog to break gay Pri” at this weekend’s New York Cy WorldPri para. I’m the only gay late-night host and so I view as a personal rponsibily to speak up when our rights are beg threatened, which has happened more, or when someone says somethg terrible or when there’s a teachable moment.
ANDY COHEN REVISS HIS COMG OUT STORY: "IT'S A GREAT MOMENT TO BE GAY"
Do the fact that you are still the only gay late-night host surprise you?
The ia that I’d be the only gay guy and that ’s been 10 years, that don’t really surprise me. There was a moment my life where I had been offered the job of head of productn at Bravo and Logo was startg, and I wanted to be head of Logo productn, bee I thought, “There’s no one gayer programmg. The float is gog to break gay Pri.
Andrew Ahn’s father once told him that there were “no gay people Korea. In a culturally nservative muny, where gog to church and buildg a fay were heavily emphasized, Ahn felt his gay inty kept him “om beg able to participate Korean culture.