Ryan Seacrest endorses CNN after Andy Cohen’s “Losers” diss

Ryan Seacrest, who was berated by a drunk Andy Cohen on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show last year, supports the network’s decision to limit drinking on camera during its coverage of the last night of the year.

“I don’t advocate drinking when you’re on the air,” Seacrest told Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t know how it became a tradition, but it must be a good idea [to scale back]CNN.”

Clips of intoxicated CNN co-hosts Cohen and Anderson Cooper went viral during last year’s show.

“There are some pretty decent people out there, or at least one, right? I think there’s one serious journalist and then a friend of mine who’s having a lot of fun, but it’s probably a good idea,” Seacrest continued. Although viewers would probably like to drink more, but I think they had something to say about my show at some point, which I know for sure because of the alcohol, because I don’t think they would say what they said about our artists if they didn’t drink.”

While reporting, Cohen attended the New Year’s Eve celebrations held on ABC with Seacrest as the host. “If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s gang of losers,” Cohen said. “When you watch ABC, you don’t watch anything.”

Cohen later apologized on his SiriusXM show Radio Andyand said, “The only thing that I regret, the only thing that I regret is that I cut the ABC show and I really like Ryan Seacrest and he’s a great guy and I really regret that I said it. I was just stupid and drunk and felt it, he said he “felt bad about it.”

Seacrest told EW that no alcohol is allowed at his New Year’s Eve show, by Dick Clark New Year’s Eve with Ryan Seacrest, on ABC. “I think our show is a bigger, broader show and we don’t drink until 1:05 in the morning. Though I might send them some Casa Dragones tequila to tempt them while they’re on the air.

CNN Chairman and CEO Chris Licht told employees at a company town hall earlier this year that the network would curb the excessive on-camera drinking seen in the past year and said it had the “honesty” of affecting the network and questioning its credibility. as a news source, according to Variety.

Cooper and Cohen are allowed to drink during prime time on CNN’s New Year’s Eve show, but correspondents and hosts must stop drinking on or off camera.