Anderson Cooper is reflecting on fatherhood. The 53-year-old news anchor called into SiriusXM’s Quarantined with Bruce and spoke to Bruce Bozzi about hosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve show with Andy Cohen. PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Anderson Cooper During the chat, Anderson Cooper spoke about why he always hated the holiday prior to hosting the show for CNN. “My dad died a couple of days after New Year’s Eve, January 5th in 1978.
And so I remember that New Year’s Eve distinctly, cause he was in the hospital and it was so like terrifying and it was just, it would kind of ruin New Year’s Eve for me from then on, it was sort of became this night of like terror basically, and like sadness.