Andy Cohen’s sonBenjamin Allenhas brought new a meaning to Smokey Bear.
During a Thursday appearance onJimmy Kimmel Live!, CNN anchorAnderson Cooperopened up about having regular weekend hangouts with his pal Cohen and Cohen’s son Ben, 2.
“So you really have to keep an eye on Andy’s son,” hostJimmy Kimmeltold his guest when Cooper, 53, pointed out the age difference between Ben and Cooper’s son,Wyatt Morgan, who turns 1 later this month.
“You have no idea,” said the television journalist, before launching into a hilarious storyinvolving a talking teddy bearWyatt had been gifted.
“My son hadn’t even played with it, and all of a sudden, there’s this smell and some smoke and we realize that Andy’s son hastaken my son’s bear, put it in the microwaveand turned it on,” Cooper recalled.
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Anderson Cooper and son Wyatt (L); Andy Cohen and son Ben.Anderson Cooper/Instagram; Andy Cohen/Instagram
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“I mean, he baked the bear,” a straight-faced Cooper continued amid laughter from Kimmel, 53, and the audience. “It was in there for, like, 10 seconds. And literally there was smoke coming out.”
“Smokey the Bear, of course!” Kimmel quipped. “It makes sense!”
“Kids do the darnedest things,” Cooper said before the host added jokingly, “Keep Wyatt away from the Cohen boy, I don’t know many times I told ya.”
“I’ve started to realize he’s just coming over ‘cause he doesn’t know what else to do with his son [during] these yawning chasms of time,” Cooper teased theWatch What Happens Livehost.
Anderson Cooper and son Wyatt.anderson cooper/ instagram
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Cooper explained that Cohen recently called him up and said he’d “like to do about three hours” after Cooper asked what activity he wanted to do with the kids.
“He’s just thinking about it in blocks of time,” Cooper joked. “There was one time where I was like, ‘I’m not gonna be here’ and he was like, ‘Oh no, that’s fine.’ He justneeds a place to go!”
The proud dad, who will soon guest hostJeopardy!, is also gearing up to celebrate Wyatt’s first birthday on April 27 — but as a self-professed “really bad planner,” he admitted, “I haven’t really planned anything yet.”
“[Wyatt] obviously doesn’t know what’s going on with that, so I figured the only thing that really matters … you know how they staged the moon landing? I’m just gonna stage this,” he joked. “I’ll get a prop cake and put on a hat and [have] balloons and maybe hire some people to stand around, and then years from now I can show him hehad a great [first] birthday party.”
In all seriousness, Cooper said with a smile, “Yes, I will probably get a couple friends and have a [real] party.”
source: people.com
