Anderson Cooper could also be greatest recognized for his silver hair and naked face, however the CNN anchor teased that he may very well be prepared to include a brand new ingredient to his on-air look.
“Heading again to work quickly. Shave or maintain?” Cooper captioned a Thursday, August 7, Instagram Story of himself sporting a grey beard and mustache. The Anderson Cooper 360 host smiled on the digicam whereas sporting glasses, a navy polo shirt, and an identical New York Yankees baseball cap.
Cooper has beforehand sported facial hair whereas reporting the most recent information on CNN. Followers had sturdy reactions when he appeared on-air with a lightweight beard and mustache again in 2019. “Anderson Cooper has a beard, and simply no,” one X consumer jokingly wrote alongside a screenshot of Cooper on TV. Sharing a differing opinion, one other individual replied, “He appears scruffy and attractive lol.”
Throughout a 2016 episode of Dwell With Kelly and Mark (on the time Dwell With Kelly and Michael), Cooper stated it’s “luxurious” not having to shave when he’s on trip. “I strive in my day off to develop a beard as a result of I’ve by no means truly grown a beard, and I secretly wish to seem like Wolf Blitzer,” he quipped.
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On the time, he went on to poke enjoyable at an Instagram pic of himself along with his then-boyfriend, Benjamin Maisani. “That is me after per week,” he stated. Poking enjoyable at his small quantity of facial hair, Kelly Ripa joked, “Sweetie, that’s like me after per week of not shaving.”
“I used to be like, ‘When am I gonna hit puberty?’ As quickly as I hit puberty, I really feel like I’m gonna be capable of develop a beard,” Cooper continued. “However, like, it’s so unhappy. I’m 49 years previous. I can’t — it’s, like, little patches.”
Cooper just lately appeared clean-shaven on The Late Present With Stephen Colbert‘s July 21 episode. He and different TV hosts — together with Andy Cohen, Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers, John Oliver, and Jon Stewart — confirmed their help for Stephen Colbert following information of the present’s cancellation by mocking the notorious Coldplay kiss-cam scandal. The celebs had their very own over-the-top reactions to being proven on digicam within the viewers.
Cooper reacted to The Late Present‘s cancellation on CNN final month. “I’ve had the pleasure and honor of being a visitor on [The Late Show] with Stephen Colbert extra occasions than I can rely. And I simply wished to take a minute and say how shocked and really saddened I’m by the information that this present will likely be cancelled,” he stated on July 17. “Stephen Colbert is sensible, and he’s humorous, and he has precise conversations with folks on his program.”
He continued, “I used to be going to point out you a bunch of humorous exchanges that I’ve had the pleasure of getting with him on his present through the years…however I believe the factor that many people love about Stephen Colbert is that he’s, at coronary heart, an extremely respectable human being with a tremendous spouse and household and robust religion.”