Andy Cohen and Ryan Seacrest Put Their New Year's Eve Feud to Bed: 'The Beef Is Squashed'

Mar. 15, 2025

(L-R) Andy Cohen; Ryan Seacrest.Photo:Jennifer Graylock/NBCUniversal via Getty; Disney/Eric McCandless

Jennifer Graylock/NBCUniversal via Getty; Disney/Eric McCandless

Andy CohenandRyan Seacrestare finally burying the hatchet!

During the Sept. 10 episode ofWatch What Happens Live, Cohen, 56, and Seacrest, 49, put their longstanding New Year’s Eve rivalry aside after hosting competing broadcasts on the holiday for years.

(L-R) Andy Cohen, Vanna White and Ryan Seacrest on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty

“I don’t even remember what the feud was about,” Cohen admitted while Seacrest laughed in the background. “But we did see each other this year. We did wave this year."

Seacrest agreed, “We did do all of that. I just said are you going to be there this year. We will be, we will wave. We can’t get to each other or we’d hug!”

(L) Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen host CNN’s ‘New Year’s Eve Live’.Roy Rochlin/Getty

Roy Rochlin/Getty

While the origins of their feud remain unknown, their differences reached a breaking point when Cohen made headlines for criticizing Seacrest and the performers that were lined up to play forDick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin' Evein 2021 to celebrate the arrival of 2022. At the time, Seacrest and Cohen were reporting live from different areas in New York City’s Time Square.

“If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing,” he said, according toUs Weekly.“I’m sorry but if you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing.”

“We were doused with confetti from fake Journey on ABC. If it’s not Steve Perry, it doesn’t count! You get it? It’s not Journey!” he reportedly said. “It’s propaganda! It’s propaganda! It’s not Journey! It’s not Journey! No, that was not Journey. Steve Perry is Journey.”

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“The only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast,” he said.“And I really like Ryan Seacrest and he’s a great guy and I really regret saying that and I was just stupid and drunk and feeling it.”

“I was continuing the Journey rant and I just kept talking and I shouldn’t have and I felt bad about that, so that is the only thing,” he added.

CNN later announced a rule in November 2022prohibiting its anchors from drinking live on air. At the time, Seacrest toldEntertainment Weeklythat CNN’s new rule is “probably a good idea.” However, the network eventually reversed course,permitting the consumption of alcohol againin 2023 to celebrate 2024.

source: people.com