Where is Andy Cohen from?
Andy was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Evelyn and Lou Cohen. He has a sister, Emily Rosenfeld. He is Jewish, with roots in Poland, Russia, and Lithuania. Cohen graduated from Clayton High School in 1986. He is a graduate of Boston University, where he received a Bachelor of Science degree in broadcast journalism.
Cohen also has a pop culture channel on Sirius XM named Radio Andy. He hosts a two-hour live show with co-host John Hill twice a week. Cohen served as Bravo’s executive vice president of Development and Talent until 2013.
He continues to serve as an executive producer of the Real Housewives franchise, host of Watch What Happens Live on Bravo, host of Andy Cohen Live on SiriusXM channel 102, and hosted the revival of the television dating show Love Connection.
In 2016, the publisher Henry Holt and Company announced it was launching the imprint Andy Cohen Books. Cohen’s third memoir Superficial: More Adventures From the Andy Cohen Diaries was published in November 2016. A sequel to The Andy Cohen Diaries, the book covers diary entries for the subsequent two years.
In November 2014, Cohen published his second memoir, The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year, inspired by the similarly titled The Andy Warhol Diaries. The book spans a year long of journal entries beginning in September 2013.
A sequel to The Andy Cohen Diaries, the book covers diary entries for the subsequent two years. Superficial became a Times Best Seller among books written by celebrities. In January 2017, Fox ordered a revival of Love Connection hosted by Cohen. The hour-long game show premiered on May 25.
Cohen is currently in contract with Bravo to host Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen until 2021. Cohen’s autobiographical memoir Most Talkative ( Henry Holt and Company ), released in May 2012, became a New York Times Best Seller in the hardcover, paperback, and combined nonfiction categories.
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