Out of all the potential Real Housewives locations, there likely will never be a season set in executive producer Andy Cohen’s hometown of St. Louis.
“I think it is a hard no,” Cohen, 57, recently told local news channel KMOV. “I can’t imagine how annoying it would be for my mom, dad, sister [and] everyone I know to be like, ‘Oh, so-and-so auditioned’ or ‘So-and-so is on it and is mad at the edit.’ I don’t need this.”
Cohen, who grew up in St. Louis before moving to New York City amid his broadcast career, helped conceptualize the Housewives franchise. The Bravo behemoth now features series based in Orange County, Beverly Hills, Salt Lake City, Potomac, Atlanta, Rhode Island, New York City and New Jersey. There were also iterations in Dallas, Miami and Dubai that have since been canceled.
“I have enough drama with The Real Housewives of Orange County, Rhode Island, New York, Atlanta, Potomac,” he acknowledged. “It would be multiplied if it was in my hometown because it would be multiplying with everyone that I know having something to say to me.”
Cohen added, “I have so much noise in my life. I have two little children. Also, trust me, it’s good. We’re good.”
Cohen welcomed son Ben via surrogate in 2019, three years before adding daughter Lucy to their family via a gestational carrier.
“I do not [want to have more kids]. I’m good. Let me answer that very quickly,” Cohen exclusively told Us Weekly in 2022 of the possibility of expanding his brood further. “That being said, if I fall in love tomorrow and someone wants … I mean, then we’re gonna have to talk.”
Cohen, who is openly gay, has long been candid about his search for love.
Andy Cohen became the first-ever openly gay host of a late-night talk show when Watch What Happens Live debuted in 2009. The 56-year-old dad to son Ben, 5, and daughter Lucy, 2, has publicly championed LGBTQ+ rights for years: He’s served as the ambassador for the Stonewall Inn Gives Back Initiative, raised money for victims […]
“I feel for me, whenever I find someone that I’m like, ‘Wait a minute, this is a quality person,’ I will make time,” he told Us. “There’s actually someone that I met recently who doesn’t live here who was saying, ‘Oh, well, maybe I’ll come in town and are you busy that week?’ And I said, ‘I’m busy every week, but there are 24 hours in a day.’”
Until then, Cohen is focused on parenthood and running his Bravo empire in between visits back home to St. Louis.
“I’m not moving back, but I love to come, and my family’s here. I actually have been coming a lot this year,” Cohen added to KMOV. “The more I come, the more it reignites my love.”
