‘I just sank into him…’: Andy Cohen reveals how nights out with John Mayer get ‘physical’ after a few drinks — as the talk show host finally addresses those long-running romance rumors and admits their friendship is ‘deep, loving… and a little flirty’… - suong
Andy Cohen is opening up about his famously close friendship with John Mayer.
While appearing on Wednesday's episode of Call Her Daddy, the Emmy Award-winning producer, 57, candidly described one of their typical nights out - and how a few drinks have led to some 'physical' moments between them.
'It is us going to dinner,' Cohen explained. 'We always sit on the same side of the booth. That is our spot.'
While the two longtime pals don't hold hands, Cohen admitted their hangouts often grow more affectionate as the evening unfolds.
'As the night goes on, I find myself sinking into him because he'll have his arm around me,' Cohen revealed. 'As a matter of fact, we were at the Sunset Tower last week, and I was getting so physical with him by the end that he was like, "Andy."'
The Watch What Happens Live host said the flirty energy came while he was 'kind of using [John's] body to tell a story about a guy.'
Andy Cohen is opening up about his famously close friendship with John Mayer
'I was in my cups a little bit,' Cohen joked, using the old-fashioned phrase for being tipsy. 'We were in a puddle of laughter. We love each other deeply. We actually do.'
When host Alex Cooper asked if Cohen might secretly be in love with Mayer, the talk show host didn't hesitate to shut it down - though he admitted the connection between them is special.
'I'm not secretly in love with him. No, we love each other,' Cohen said. 'If I could find a gay guy that was him, it would be magic. But you know what? I'm so grateful for the love that we have.'
Cohen and Mayer, 48, have been close friends for more than a decade, sparking endless fan speculation about whether there's ever been more between them.
The pair often travel together, appear at events side by side, and frequently gush about each other in interviews - though both have repeatedly insisted their relationship is purely platonic.
Later in the Call Her Daddy chat, Cohen shared that Mayer even gave him a little pep talk before the taping.
'We FaceTimed yesterday,' Cohen said. 'He was like, 'You're going to be great. Go. Deliver. You know what you're doing.' Fair. Love you, John.'
When Cohen jokingly asked what Mayer would say if he requested help launching a music career, he mimicked Mayer's response with a grin: 'Absolutely, baby.'
While appearing on Call Her Daddy, the producer, 57, candidly described one of their typical nights out - and how a few drinks have led to some 'physical' moments between them
'It is us going to dinner,' Cohen explained. 'We always sit on the same side of the booth. That is our spot' (seen in 2022)
Though their friendship might look like a rom-com to fans, Cohen says he's perfectly happy keeping it exactly as it is — warm, affectionate, and full of laughter.
'I'm so grateful for the love that we have,' he said.
Last year, Cohen denied he and Mayer were in a romantic relationship.
When asked about their friendship as part of a profile for The Hollywood Reporter, Cohen said: 'I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me. But because we’re so affectionate toward each other, people don’t know what box to put that in. They assume we’re sleeping with each other, which we are most definitely not.'
In 2023, Cohen insisted that his affection for Mayer had never gotten physical.
At Howard's urging, Andy even swore on his children Ben and Lucy that he and John have never fooled around.
However Cohen did tell the self-proclaimed King Of All Media: 'I am in love with John Mayer. We are in love with each other.'
'I mean, swear on your children's lives there's never been anything sexual between you and John Mayer,' Howard said, and Andy readily agreed: 'I swear.'
While the two longtime pals don't hold hands, Cohen admitted their hangouts often grow more affectionate as the evening unfolds; seen in 2015
'I'm not secretly in love with him. No, we love each other,' Cohen said. 'If I could find a gay guy that was him, it would be magic'
In 2018, he told CNN that they 'have a very sweet friendship' and 'have a great love for each other.'
When asked what he was looking for in a partner, he joked: 'Someone who is like John Mayer... Just kidding. What am I looking for? I'm looking for someone strong, independent, smart, who has their own thing going on.'
While Cohen is openly gay, Mayer has only publicly dated women.
The musician exes include Jennifer Aniston, Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, Jessica Simpson and Minka Kelly.
In May 2024, Mayer wrote a letter to The Hollywood Reporter addressing the rumors surrounding his friendship with Cohen.
'I think that to suggest that people are dubious of a friendship like mine and Andy’s is to undermine the public’s ability to accept and understand diversity in all facets of culture, be it in art or in real life. I’d like to think they’re sophisticated enough to see a relationship like ours without assuming it must include a sexual component,' he wrote via email.
Melissa Gorga Reveals 'Nightmare' Experience on Wife Swap: Real Housewives Edition trucc
Find out what sent RHONJ's Melissa Gorga into "sensory overload" on Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition.
After jetting off to Georgia for Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition, Melissa Gorga instantly clocked some things that would never fly in her Garden State home.
As part of the social experiment, the perfectionist mom from The Real Housewives of New Jersey first stepped outside her comfort zone and adopted swap counterpart Michelle Clark's more free-flowing lifestyle, including lax rules for her three children (Sean Jr., 8, Phoenix, 7, and Maverick, 3), as well as a an emphasis on quality family time over household cleaning and organization.
After helping prepare a vegan meal for the kids — while she begrudgingly joined swap husband Sean Clark in a juice cleanse — Melissa encountered one of the experience's biggest challenges: going to bed with dirty dishes still in the kitchen sink.
Though Sean insisted they could just clean up later, Melissa still asked, "Really? Are you sure? I'm in sensory overload."
As the RHONJ 'Wife further declared to a producer, "Oh my god, this is my nightmare. I am in a different world right now. Like, we're just gonna go to bed and leave that all in the sink right now? None of what goes on in this house goes on in mine."
Melissa Gorga reflects on her Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition experience
Melissa noted that she joined Wife Swap: The Real Housewives Edition to learn "to just let some things go," after husband Joe Gorga said that her rigidity in their Franklin Lakes, N.J. home was "too much" to handle, at times. Post-filming, she opened up about the experience and what she learned in the process in an exclusive interview with The Daily Dish.
Referring to the Clark kids as "the sweetest, most polite, amazing children," the real-life mom to Antonia, 20, Gino, 18, and Joey Gorga, 15, said she "couldn't have gotten luckier" to be paired with the East Point, Georgia-based family. That's at least partly because seeing Sean's hands-on approach to fatherhood taught Melissa a valuable parenting lesson.
"Everything was a learning experience," she elaborated. "I'm like, wow, I spent a lot of time with my kids, but I don't make everything a learning experience when it really could be. ... So, I think just with motherhood, it gave me a lot of insight."
Though she still keeps her house "spotless," nowadays, Melissa "for sure" channels her swap husband when faced with parenting challenges. She added, "When something happens with my children, I think, like, 'What would Sean do? What would Sean have a conversation about right now?'"
Having introduced more structure and organization into the Clark family's highly intertwined lives on the show, Melissa, in turn, also hoped that she taught Sean and Michelle a thing or two about the importance of taking some alone time amid their daily "grind" as well.
"Divide and conquer does work," she remarked. "And you can think a little bit when you have some time on your own and you're not together 24/7."
Where Melissa Gorga stands with her Wife Swap family now
Even after filming wrapped, Melissa said she stayed in touch with the Clark family — and is still in close contact with them today.
"I talk to them all the time," she revealed. "They're an amazing family. They're trying to come out to New Jersey to hang out with us. They're originally from New York, so when they come to visit their family, we're going to see them."
After Melissa stepped in to finish off the couple's 10-day cleanse — and Michelle whipped up some healthy beverages for the Gorgas back in Jersey — on Wife Swap's Oct. 28 episode, the Clarks even shipped her an appropriate gift.
As Melissa further shared, "They sent me the most amazing juicer recently."
