![]() ![]() So what did Cohen end up doing with the baby dress potentially purchased with Shah's ill-gotten gains? He says he "regifted it" to "someone famous who's a 'Housewives' fan." ![]() Shah is serving a 6½-year prison sentence. In one entry, Cohen, who executive produces every series in the franchise, describes receiving a baby Dior dress for his newborn daughter Lucy from former "Real Housewives of Salt Lake City" star Jen Shah − only for Shah to plead guilty to defrauding thousands of people in a nationwide telemarketing scheme not long after. "Real Housewives" diehards will also get a kick out of the book. I'm a good editor for myself, and I push myself to be vulnerable and be gossipy and be self-deprecating, and all the things I know I need to be for the book to be a success." "I worked hard to try to name as many names as I could and be as dishy as I could. Several of Cohen's celebrity friends make appearances in the book, including his best friend, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, as well as singer John Mayer. 'It was really surreal': Andy Cohen details first moments as a dad The result is a book that charts not only Cohen's eccentric, star-studded daily life, but also his personal growth from an extroverted socialite to a grounded father of two, happy to be a homebody. Some particularly dramatic days, he says, resulted in "a brain dump" at the end of the night, and some weekends he would spend turning his notes into fuller entries. His writing process involved jotting down diary entries any time he could, sometimes on his phone while leaving "WWHL," on a flight or in wee morning hours before his toddler woke up. "I feel like it's kind of a race against my own sense of 'Can I do it all?' and 'Can I be healthy?' and 'Can I do it all without having a nervous breakdown?' " Cohen says of balancing parenthood with his demanding career, a theme throughout the book. "Daddy Diaries" follows Cohen's previous books, 2014's "The Andy Cohen Diaries: A Deep Look at a Shallow Year" and 2016's "Superficial: More Adventures from the Andy Cohen Diaries," with Cohen keeping a diary entry for nearly every day of the past year.Īnd 2022 was a big year for Cohen − one that started with a drunken televised New Year's Eve rant against New York City's then-Mayor Bill de Blasio, ended with a controversial sober New Year's Eve special and included the birth of his baby daughter Lucy via surrogate in April. "I think the weight of being a single parent really hit me as I was writing the book, and my book became something of a therapist." Seussian illustration on the cover of me juggling everything," Cohen says, referencing the "Daddy Diaries" cover image. "One of my struggles is the struggle to do everything, and there's kind of a little Dr. Oh, not to mention he's also a single dad to two young children. In addition to releasing "The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up" (Henry Holt, 288 pp., out now) and getting his hometown star last Friday, he's continuing to host the headline-making "Watch What Happens Live" and run Bravo's "Real Housewives" empire. Louis, where he was honored with a star on the city's Walk of Fame. That's evident on a Zoom call with the radio and television host, who recently touched down in his hometown of St. If there's one thing that's clear about Andy Cohen from his latest book, it's that he never slows down. Purchases you make through our links may earn us and our publishing partners a commission. ![]()
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