Andy Cohen‘s baby boy Benjamin isn’t just making his life brighter, he’s a bright spot for Anderson Cooper, too.
“I brought Ben over to Anderson’s last weekend. I was like you need to be with a baby right now because he was obviously very in a rough spot,” Cohen, 51, recently told Page Six. “And I think sometimes — I just thought — it would be good for him to see kind of new life and that might energize him a little bit. And I think it did.”
Cooper, 52, lost his mom, Gloria Vanderbilt, to “very advanced” stomach cancer June 17. She was 95 years old.
Benjamin Allen was born in February.
And while Cooper and Cohen are constantly traveling around the country, Cohen plans to raise Ben in New York and grow his 10-year-strong late-night talk show, “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.”
“We’re staying in New York. Are you kidding? I think New York is a great city for kids. For a thousand reasons, by the way. So yeah we’re not going anywhere,” he said. “The energy. The diversity. The versatility. I think there are life lessons around every corner for him to learn. I want him to be in the mix and I want him to see — I want him to get an up-close look at real life. I don’t want him to be sheltered. I don’t wanna bring him into a house in the suburbs and lock the doors and everything’s perfect. I want him to see what’s going on in the world.”
And as for his show?
“I see the show going — hopefully just — I think we’ll stick in our little studio. I really like it. I think it’s authentic. And I just want to get bigger and better guests. I just want to continue — we have our eyes set on a lot of people who’ve never done the show. And so I just want to keep getting new butts in the clubhouse seats!”
Cohen played coy when it came to what’s next in his personal life. The first time dad recently teamed up with Autotrader for its Best New Cars for 2019 when he was looking for an SUV to travel with Ben in, but he may not be upgrading to a soccer van anytime soon.
“I’m actually not averse to, ‘Is the SUV the gateway to a minivan?'” he joked. “Possibly. I don’t know my SUV could also be the gateway to a bigger SUV.”