I go back and forth on whether I actually like Andy Cohen. Sometimes, I think he’s a gossipy bitch after my own heart. Other times, I just find him absurd with how he manufactures drama. I can’t even decide if I think he’s a good interviewer. He’s better than most, but that’s setting the bar pretty low. Cohen isn’t merely a producer and talk show host though – he’s also a dishy author. His latest book is Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries, and it’s out this week. Several outlets have excerpts and… some of the stuff is just weird, throw-away gossip. But I did enjoy the Taylor Swift story. Some highlights:

The Taylor Swift story:
Cohen recounts that when at the Met Ball this year with Sarah Jessica Parker, whom he attends the event with every year, he had a brief run-in with Swift at the bar. According to Cohen, the “Shake It Off” singer was searching for a spot to watch Lady Gaga’s performance when Cohen noticed an open area by Perry.

“Why I felt I needed to get involved I will never know (maybe I was auditioning for her squad?) but I innocently said exactly the wrong thing to her, which was, ‘Your friend Katy is sitting in the corner and there’s plenty of room around her,’” he recalls. Cohen says Swift then asked, “Katy who?”

“I said, ‘Perry,’ at which point she clearly let me know that she’s the exact opposite of her friend,” he continues. Cohen says he then tried to make light of his misstep, which led Swift to instruct him not to mention this on his show. “She didn’t threaten me about putting it in my book, so here we are,” Cohen quipped, adding that he failed his “squad-ition!”

His Jennifer Aniston story. He was having a drink with John Mayer when he noticed several Friends stars having dinner nearby, following their appearance at a tribute to James Burrows. This was years after Mayer and Aniston had broken up, and Cohen writes: “We realized they had to walk by our table to leave and that would be a ‘moment,’” Cohen recounts. He decided to instead greet the cast, but Mayer did not join him. “As much as I would’ve loved to see the ultimate reunion — Aniston and Mayer — we left before they did and went to bed. Separately.”

[From ET]

“Katy who?” Oh, Swifty. Never stop being that high school Mean Girl. You know, KATY PERRY, the same Katy that you wrote “Bad Blood” about. The same Katy Perry that spurred you convene the largest friend collection just to “show” her who is more popular? That Katy Perry.

What else? He said no to Oprah not once but twice! Once when she asked him to do Where Are They Now?, which seems bizarre (because he didn’t go anywhere) and another time when she invited him to brunch and he had a flight to catch. I don’t know, if Oprah asks you to brunch, you should probably change your flight.

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