Bravo’s Andy Cohen
I find Bravo’s Andy Cohen, the host of all the reunion shows, to be surprisingly off-putting.
Carolyn, even the other gays agree on this!
My theory is that there are about 1,000 aliens on the planet posing as over-the-top gay men, and Bravo finds a way to cast 50 of them each year.
(Disclaimer: Some of my best friends are gay. Or black. Or women. Or aliens.)
This would explain Tim Gunn (and arguably Heidi Klum), but he’s from a more charming planet than Mr. Cohen.
Oh god, we’re going to debate this, aren’t we? Okay… so for one thing, Tim Gunn is not a gay alien, he is just one of the actual humans on the planet who has everything absolutely all figured out. Just because you’re an exceedingly brilliant, attractive, and fascinating person does not mean that you must be inhuman.
Andy Cohen has a different problem. He’s not a TV-ready person, but he has other people at the network (he’s the head of programming) pushing him to host these things. He’s settling in; he did well on the Top Chef Las Vegas reunion show. But doing the weekly show is a bad idea. He mentioned in an article in the Times how he has to really concentrate to sit still on TV, because otherwise his leg would jitter right out of its joint. You can see him holding back and that’s why he looks odd. He needs a ton more practice to refine himself to Tom Colicchio TV-readiness.
