New year, new face? Not quite, says Andy Cohen.
The Bravo head honcho, 57, raised eyebrows after appearing refreshed while co-hosting CNN’s “New Year’s Eve Live” with Anderson Cooper on Dec. 31. But he’s taking the facelift speculation as a compliment.
“I am so flattered,” Cohen said on the Jan. 5 episode of his SiriusXM show, “Andy Cohen Live.” “I love the speculation that I have dramatically changed my face.”
The “Watch What Happens Live” host clarified that he hasn’t had any plastic surgery, however — just a few minor touch-ups.
“I got the teeniest bit of Botox,” he explained. “I got four minor veneers in front. I mean, they’re pretty minor.”
Cohen also copped to going a bit overboard in the makeup chair before the broadcast, asking Cooper’s makeup artist to bronze him up more than usual.
“She’s like, ‘Are you OK?’” he recalled. “I’m like, ‘Yeah, warm me up a little bit. Give me some more tanner.’”
The extra color didn’t go unnoticed by viewers at home. “There were a lot of comments that were like, ‘Wow. This is a beaten-down lady,’” Cohen said with a laugh.
One Threads user was particularly blunt about the host’s new look, writing, “WTF did he do to his face?!? Is he trying to find a new husband at Mar-a-Lago?”
Cohen responded directly: “Did the smallest amount of Botox and lost 20 pounds! And had a lot of makeup on.”
Monica Lewinsky came to Cohen’s defense, calling him “[very] handsome” in response to the criticism.
Cohen’s Botox use is a relatively recent development. In March, during the “Married to Medicine” Season 11 reunion, he admitted to trying the procedure for the first time, getting “a little” injected about a month prior.
As late as November 2024, he said on the “How to Fail” podcast that he’d never tried the injectable — despite years of encouragement from the late Joan Rivers.
“Joan Rivers, before she died, used to beg me to get Botox,” he shared at the time. “And every guy that I know who’s hosting a TV show — mainly all of them are younger than me or about my age — they all have had Botox.”
The legendary comedian first dispensed the advice nearly 20 years ago, when the two were working on a 2006 pilot.
“The first thing she said to me when I went in to audition was, ‘You gotta get Botox. You have to get Botox,’” he told “Today” in 2014. “I never did, and I was thinking last night, maybe I should get a little shot in tribute to Joan. I think it would be a nice tribute to her.”
As for the weight loss, Cohen has been open about “micro-dosing” a GLP-1 medication — the class of drugs that includes Ozempic and Mounjaro — to shed about 20 pounds.
“I was really unhappy with my weight,” the dad of two shared on his radio show in September. “My doctor and I talked about this last year, had recommended a GLP-1 a few times to not only address what I was feeling about my weight, but treat plaque in my arteries and high blood pressure.”
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