Andy Cohen recalls ‘movie star’ threatening to walk off ‘WWHL’ after getting ‘furious’ over a question

   

Andy Cohen recalls one ‘movie star’ guest threatening ‘to walk’ mid-‘WWHL’ after getting ‘furious’ over a question

Andy Cohen recalled a celebrity threatening to walk off “Watch What Happens Live” in the middle of a live episode after he asked a “sensitive” question.

Cohen shared the anecdote on his close friend Kelly Ripa’s podcast, “Let’s Talk Off Camera,” Wednesday after she asked him the “weirdest thing” someone has ever whispered to him during a commercial break.

“My executive producer told me once, in year maybe three, that one of the two guests was going to walk because she was furious with how it was going,” he said.

Andy Cohen sitting and talking

Andy Cohen recalled a “movie star” threatening to walk off “Watch What Happens Live” in the middle of a show. Getty Images

Andy Cohen sitting on "WWHL"

He told Kelly Ripa that a guest “was going to walk because she was furious with how it was going.” Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty Images
Cohen, 56, recalled thinking, “Oh my God, oh my God” when the unnamed star’s publicist told him that their client was “walking” off the set.

“I remember trying to kind of talk her off [the edge],” he said of his clubhouse company.

Ripa, 53, asked whether Cohen was “aware” that something was “going wrong” earlier in the episode, to which he laughed while thinking about the question that had set off his guest.

Molly Shannon and Kristin Chenoweth sitting with ANdy Cohen on "WWHL"

Cohen said the incident occurred around “year three” of his Bravo talk show. Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Andy Cohen sitting on "WWHL"

“I very stupidly brought up something — as we were going to commercial break — that I guess was very sensitive to this person,” he remembered. Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

“I very stupidly brought up something — as we were going to commercial break — that I guess was very sensitive to this person,” he remembered.

Cohen said the mystery star “got out of it just fine,” but the show hit a snag when his other guest that evening said they “hadn’t heard about” the incident in question.

“Then the second guest was like, ‘Wait a minute, what? You did what?’ And then was really leaning into it, and I was like, ‘Oh God, oh God,'” he recounted.

Andy Cohen smiling

Cohen’s other guest that evening made matters worse when she kept “making [the star] re-explain” her response to his question. Bravo/NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Andy Cohen sitting with Michaele and Tareq Salahi

He teased that the mystery guest was an “actual celebrity” and not a Bravolebrity. NBCUniversal via Getty Images

Cohen said the second guest, whom he did not name either, made matters worse by “making her re-explain it.”

“The second [guest] was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s crazy, that’s wild.’ It was not great,” he said.

Cohen reiterated that the nameless woman was an “actual celebrity” and “movie star” — not a Bravolebrity.

Andy Cohen talking on stage

“You will never, never figure it out,” Cohen said. Getty Images

Andy Cohen talking on "WWHL"

The producer will celebrate 15 years of his talk show in July. Bravo

“You will never, never figure it out,” he teased while laughing.

Cohen has had countless celebrity and reality TV guests on his Bravo talk show since it premiered 15 years ago.

He told Page Six exclusively in May 2023 that his biggest “mistake” was turning down a Meghan Markle appearance before she became the Duchess of Sussex.