![]() But they're living their best life, truly in their own moment. And I know you think I'm crazy, but if you look at Luann and Sonja and Ramona and how they are not dependent on men, they are three single women. The Real Housewives of New York, I think, is the great feminist tableau. There are more women over 50 building brands doing exactly what they want to do. I said to her, "I bet you haven't watched it," because on the converse, Roxane Gay and Camille Paglia and many other feminists, and I am a feminist as well, and I think it is a great feminist show. I talked to Gloria Steinem about it on Watch What Happens Live! once and she called it a minstrel show for women. ![]() Especially when you talk about the way women are presented. Your name is now tied forever to the rise of reality TV, and people, whether they love it or hate it, even me who loves it, have mixed feelings about what it's done to us as a society. I think its sociology of the rich or nouveau riche. And I will also say, I think that the reason that it's still on, I think we love to judge human behavior. But also, I hear from more people who just, it brings them an escape, and who say I have been dealing with cancer for years, or I fight with my daughter about everything we barely have a relationship, but our safe space is The Housewives because we can talk about it and have fun and that's escapism. I meet so many people who come up to me and say, "Oh, I'm a lawyer, so don't judge me, but I love The Housewives." I'm like, "I know! A lot of smart people watch these shows." So there's that. These messy, rich, unattainable women that I couldn't relate to at all. Then at night, I would stream these shows because they were absolute escape. I would cover bombings and sectarian killings and really terrible, terrible things all day. When I moved to Iraq in 2006, The Real Housewives became my escape. This interview has been edited for clarity and length. He stopped by our studios to discuss the book and the first thing I confessed was my Bravo reality addiction. In it he name drops, spills tea about Bravolebrities and writes about life as a gay single dad. That new life is at the center of his latest book, The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up. ![]() The way I live my life every day has changed."Īnd that starts by getting woken up by Ben crawling into his bed or the sound of Lucy singing or more like squawking at 4:30 am. It's the kids that are the right turn," he said. "I am tired, but I'm really tired because of the kids, frankly. Running a media empire and raising little kids, is a lot. Oh, and he's a father now, to two kids under 5. Today Cohen is the executive producer of all of The Real Housewives shows, has his talk show Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, his imprint, Andy Cohen Books, and two Sirius XM radio channels. He never imagined that all these years later The Real Housewives' franchise would still be airing and expanding to locations as far as Dubai. "All their kids were good looking, and they all lived near each other and went to the same tennis club." "They were wealthy, they had pools in their backyards and they had grottos," he said. So in 2006 when he created The Real Housewives of Orange County as then vice president of original programming at Bravo, in his mind it was the reality version of the soap operas he loved. ![]() He loved the drama, the opulence, the unattainable lifestyles. The way I live my life every day has changed," he said.Īndy Cohen, known as the face of Bravo TV, was fascinated by soap operas growing up in St. Andy Cohen, the face of Bravo, says being a dad is his biggest challenge yet. ![]()
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