The New Year’s Eve party on CNN, in which Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen have been known to do tequila shots live on air, is still on, insists Cohen, but the traditional boozefest is off.
On Wednesday, Cohen told Rolling Stone that while the correspondents will not be drinking, “Anderson and I will be the people partying on CNN [though] we will be partying responsibly.” He later clarified to Page Six on Thursday, “We aren’t drinking, but we’re going to have a blast.“
In November, CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht told staffers that on-camera drinking was damaging the network’s “respectability,” and laid down a new policy banning alcohol.