Ryan Seacrest shades Andy Cohen for getting too drunk during CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage: ‘A good idea to scale back’

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Is a feud brewing between Ryan Seacrest and Andy Cohen?

One year after Cohen, 54, got a little too drunk while hosting CNNโ€™s New Yearโ€™s Eve Live alongside Anderson Cooper, Seacrest, 48, weighed in about the situation.

โ€œI donโ€™t advocate drinking when one is on the air,โ€ the American Idol alum, who hosts ABCโ€™s Dick Clarkโ€™s New Yearโ€™s Rockinโ€™ Eve, said in a new interview. โ€œI donโ€™t know how that started as a tradition, but itโ€™s probably a good idea [to scale back], CNN.โ€

โ€œThereโ€™s some pretty respectable people or at least one, right?โ€ the Live With Kelly and Ryan star quipped. โ€œI think thereโ€™s a serious journalist and then a friend of mine who has a lot of fun, but itโ€™s probably a good idea.โ€

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As OK! previously reported, the Bravo star blasted former Mayor Bill de Blasio for doing the โ€œcrappiest job,โ€ and he slammed ABCโ€™s Dick Clarkโ€™s Rockinโ€™ Eve, calling the performers a โ€œgroup of losers.โ€

Despite Cohenโ€™s controversial comments, he declared he was just trying to have a good time. โ€œI will not be shamed for having fun on New Yearโ€™s Eve. Thatโ€™s why Iโ€™m there.โ€ he explained in January. โ€œItโ€™s a four-and-a-half-hour show. The booze started kicking in around 11:30 โ€ฆ I kicked into high gear with 45 minutes left.โ€

However, he did apologize to Seacrest.

โ€œThe only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast, and I really like Ryan Seacrest, and heโ€™s a great guy,โ€ he noted. โ€œAnd I really regret saying that, and I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it.โ€

He added, โ€œI just kept talking, and I shouldnโ€™t have, and I felt bad about that. So that is the only thing [I regret]. Itโ€™s the only thing.โ€

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Meanwhile, Seacrest believes if alcohol wasnโ€™t in the equation, Cohen would have acted different.

โ€œ[I donโ€™t] think they would say what they said about our performers if they werenโ€™t drinking,โ€ he explained.

Seacrest spoke with Entertainment Weekly.


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