Bravo's Andy Cohen Graduates To Page Six Boldface Greatness
Forgive us if you detect a slight quiver as we emotionally deliver the news that Andy Cohen, Bravo's dishy blogging executive and now breakout webcast star of BravoTV.com's Watch What Happens, has achieved a gigantic milestone in the life of any frustrated TV suit with a burning hunger for the limelight: Not just a Page Six item, but a Page Six item where his boldfaced name sits alongside the column's honorary cougar and a Hollywood A+-lister:
WHEN Ellen Barkin called into Bravo's live online show "Watch What Happens" Wednesday night, host Andy Cohen asked Barkin whether she "did it" with George Clooney on the set of "Ocean's 13." "Have you done it with George Clooney?" she asked back.
Cohen then told her, "I'd like to quiz you on everyone you've ever done it with," to which Barkin responded, "I know you would. But you don't have enough time." The conversation eventually cooled off and focused on Barkin's favorite piece of furniture - her $60,000 leather coffee table.
The exchange—a little too heavy on interrogation and light on hard, cold, Clooney-screwing facts—nonetheless gives off the illusion of juiciness, and has therefore more than earned its inevitable two-page gatefold entry in Cohen's meticulously tended "Andy Cohen: Superstar!!!" scrapbook. And in a telling clue that Cohen himself is becoming much savvier playing the media game, his blog today contains nary a pantsless Clooney musing nor reference to $60,000 leather coffee tables, focusing instead on Valerie Bertinelli having publicly declared war on her weight. Or, as Andy puts it, "V-Bert's a size 14....And I love her for it!"