NYE

Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen got drunk on air to ring in 2024 after dialing back the booze for the special a year ago As it turns out, Anderson Cooper getting drunk and giggling uncontrollably on live television at the site of a cat’s butt in John Mayer’s face makes for good television. The news network announced on Thursday that its New Years Eve special hosted by Cooper and Andy Cohen brought in about 2.33 million viewers this year, a 12 percent bump compared to the year prior, according…

Halle Berry has been a Hollywood fashion icon for years, and she revived a pandemic era trend for this week's New Year’s Eve celebration. The mom, actress, director and fashionista went pants-free as she rung in 2024, pairing a corset bodysuit with a gorgeous gold blazer. Honestly, it’s the latter that I really want to talk about.Taking to Instagram after her big night out, Halle Berry took an elevator photo that showed off the shiny outfit, as well as the memorable shoes and jewelry she wore with it. What’s most…

One of the very first images to go viral and emerge from the USA in 2024 captured love, passion, and inclusivity, which hopefully indicates a great start to the year.CNN broadcasted a passionate kiss between an interracial same-sex couple immediately after the New Year’s ball dropped in Times Square, New York City, on Monday (January 1).The image showed two men wearing large Planet Fitness hats locking lips in a lengthy display of affection as soon as the countdown to 2024 concluded on “New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson…

There will be no more trips to the beach for Nicki Minaj. On Sunday night, at a New Year’s Eve performance at E11EVEN in Miami, the rapper got a few lines into the opening verse of her 2012 hit single “Starships,” before suddenly raising her hands, signaling for the track to stop.    In a video posted to TikTok, Minaj waves her hands, telling the crowd, “Hold on. Psych, psych, psych, psych. I don’t perform that song no more, y’all. I don’t like it, what y’all want me to do? Stupid song.”  She then launches…

Mayer, meanwhile, was totally straight-faced as a bunch of tabbies crawled all over him at a Tokyo bar New Year’s Eve broadcasts are usually their best when things start to go wrong, and lucky for us, CNN‘s New Year’s Eve Times Square with Anderson Cooper and Andy Cohen got delightfully unhinged when John Mayer randomly turned up to say hi from a cat cafe in Tokyo. There were only about 45 minutes left until midnight when the singer-songwriter joined the two hosts, immediately bewildering them…

The pop star spent NYE day at the Kansas City Chiefs game against the Cincinnati Bengals Taylor Swift is wrapping up her massive 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. The pop star arrived at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday afternoon before kickoff for the game between her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s team, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the Cincinnati Bengals. She has attended several of Kelce’s games since they began dating earlier this year, in between her Eras shows. Most recently, she attended the team’s…

The storied building at 1920 Market St. in Downtown Denver will start a new chapter with the New Year. The space, which served as home base for the cast of “Real World Denver” nearly two decades ago, will soon debut as Riot House, a restaurant and club specializing in DJ dance parties and bottle service. It celebrates a grand opening with a New Year’s Eve party featuring a performance by Mastamonk. The holiday will be locals’ first chance to see the massive 16,000-square-foot venue outfitted with a large center bar,…

Wiz Khalifa rang in 2023 by performing at Disneyland for the annual Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve broadcast. Hours later, the rapper ruined a $10,000 suit he was wearing by into a swimming pool.Wiz took to Twitter on Sunday to poke fun at the incident, which appears to have been an accident. “I tripped and fell in the pool in my 10 Thousand Dollar suit so y’all can take me back to last year cause this ain’t it.”“New year same me,” Khalifa added. Leading up to New Year’s Eve, Wiz dropped his latest single “Never…

Happy New Year! Here’s hoping 2023 is kinder to tech firms and startups than 2022 was. Today, we bring you an exclusive interview with US Federal Communications Commission chief Brendan Carr, who told us that India set an important precedent by banning Chinese short-video app Tik Tok in 2020. At least 20 of 50 American states have banned the app on state government devices, with the number set to increase in 2023, he added.Also in this letter:■ New Year’s Eve orders up 30-35% at cloud kitchens, restaurants■ India’s…