Andy Cohen’s son Benjamin Allen has given new meaning to Smokey Bear.
During a Thursday performance op Jimmy Kimmel Live!, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper opened up about having regular weekend hangouts with his friend Cohen and Cohen’s son Ben, 2.
“So you really need to keep an eye on Andy’s son,” host Jimmy Kimmel told 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 starting a hilarious story about a talking teddy bear given to Wyatt.
“My son hadn’t even played with it, and suddenly there is a smell and some smoke and we realize that Andy’s son took my son’s bear, put it in the microwave and turned it on,” Cooper recalls.
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“I mean, he baked the bear,” Cooper went on with a straight face to the laughter of Kimmel, 53, and the audience. “It was in there for about 10 seconds. And literally smoke came out.”
“Smokey the Bear, of course!” Kimmel joked. “It is logical!”
“Kids do the stupidest things,” Cooper said before the host jokingly added, “Keep Wyatt away from the Cohen boy, I don’t know often, I told you.”
The Anderson Cooper 360 ° Host said earlier in the conversation that Cohen, 52, and Ben regularly stop by to hang out on Sundays – but Cooper suspects his friend has ulterior motives other than social ones.
“I was starting to realize that he just came by because he doesn’t know what else to do with his son [during] these yawning chasms of time, ‘Cooper teased Watch What Happens Live host.
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Cooper explained that Cohen called him recently and said he would “like to do about three hours” after Cooper asked what activity he wanted to do with the kids.
“He just thinks about it in blocks of time,” Cooper joked. “There was one time when I thought, ‘I’m not going to be here’ and he said, ‘Oh no, that’s fine.’ He just needs a place to go! “
The proud father, who will soon be a guest Danger!, is also getting ready to celebrate Wyatt’s first birthday on April 27 – but as a self-proclaimed “really bad planner,” he admitted, “I haven’t really planned anything yet.”
[Wyatt] clearly don’t know what’s going on with that so I thought all that really matters … you know how they organized the moon landing? I’m just going to stage this, ”he joked. I get a stuffed cake and put on a hat and [have] balloons and maybe hire some people to stand around, and in years I can show him he had a great one [first] birthday party.”
In all seriousness, Cooper said with a smile, “Yeah, I’ll probably get some friends and one [real] party.”