Wait a minute, is that Wolf Blitzer sitting next to Bravo’s Andy Cohen? At Friday night’s Front Row fashion show event at Bethesda Row, Cohen was holding court with the CNN anchorman, with four of the five former “Real Housewives of D.C.” sitting nearby. “They’re so cool. It’s great. It’s not awkward at all,” Cohen said about seeing Stacie Turner, Mary Amons, Lynda Erkiletian and Catherine Ommanney for the first time in months, after canceling their show. Cohen is the gentleman behind such franchises as “Real Housewives” and “Top Chef” and was at the event to sign copies of his new memoir “Most Talkative.” The fact that he sitting between a veteran newscaster and a flock of reality stars should come as no surprise to those familiar with Cohen’s biography. He spent 10 years at CBS News, before jumping to Bravo and the world of television development. “I loved working with Dan Rather,” he told Yeas & Nays. “You know my whole time at CBS News I had a front row seat for the ’90s.”
Since then, things have come full circle with Cohen hosting his own talk show on the network, “Watch What Happens Live.” “I think it prepared me because I interview people now and I interviewed people for 10 years,” he said of his previous gig. As far as political types he likes, Cohen tends to gravitate toward the journos. “I love the team at ‘Morning Joe.’ I love political journalists. I’m a big Candy Crowley fan. I’m a big Donna Brazile fan. I love Willie Geist and I love Rachel Maddow,” he said. “In terms of politicians, look, it’s an election year … I would love to have Mrs. Obama on my show, it would be amazing.”
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