Anderson Cooper (Photo : Reuters)
First, there was Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. And then there was Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Justin Bieber who just went for a Bora Bora vacation over the weekend.
The latest celebrity bromance couple is Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen. Startribune reports that the two men, who apparently comes from opposite ends of the world, are having an audience-interactive show. The presentation, "AC2," will be held on Saturday at the State Theatre in Minneapolis.
The two men appear to have some common characteristics despite their differences. Anderson is 48, loves cocktails, a CNN reporter known for his war coverage, frequents Studio 54 and is a scion of Gloria Vanderbilt. Andy hardly drinks, is a homebody, was a CBS news man for a decade and grew up in Pleasantville, a St. Louis suburb.
The pair initially talked over the phone a few year ago for a blind date that never happened, but did not hit it off right away. However, because of common friends, they eventually became close friends as they run into each other frequently.
The show, which they had done previously in Boston, Chicago, Miami and Atlanta, tell stories they cannot share on TV. The idea came when Cooper interviewed Cohen for the launch of Cohen's second book.
Cooper describes their on-stage banter as "a hermetically sealed environment where everyone's in on the fun."
Besides doing "AC2," Cooper tackles teen issues such as social media in a one-hour investigative report titled "Being13: Inside the Secret World of Teen." The report, to be shown on Monday evening, looks into the impact of social media on teens' mental health.
