Andy Cohen is addressing the leak, and revealing a surprisingly helpful source.
The 57-year-old Bravo exec spoke out about the leaked audio from the Summer House Season 10 reunion, which just finished taping recently.
A Bravo investigation revealed that a production staffer was allegedly the source of the leak, and “appropriate action” was taken.
During the latest episode of Radio Andy Monday (April 27) on SiriusXM, he spoke out about the situation in depth.
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“Thursday was the Summer House reunion, and I have to say it was truly not only one of the most emotional reunions that we’ve ever shot, but it was one of the most emotionally draining for, there were so many emotions on that stage. Deep anger, deep hurt,” he said.
“We started rolling around 10:30 and we wrapped around eight, I guess. Took an hour lunch. The thing about it is that this situation has truly sent shock waves through this group and I know that’s like a Chris Harrison kind of, ‘Oh my god. The most dramatic, you know, rose ceremony ever,’ but it really has caused shock waves through the group in ways that even I didn’t realize until I sat there looking in the faces and hearing from some of these housemates, so anyway, it was really, it was very intense and I got home and I needed to kind of de-stress.”
“I had an eye surgery Friday morning at seven. I had to be there at 6:45 in the morning for the surgery. They had to correct something in the eye that had the cataract done, so Wednesday night, no, Thursday night I had a cocktail. I went to bed early thinking, ‘Oh, I have to be up early,’ but I was buzzing all night from this reunion. I was like, my body was so unsettled. I think I was unsettled about the surgery. The next morning, I kept waking up. Finally I wake up at 5:30 or six to go to the thing. I go online and I see that there’s been a leak of audio from the Summer House reunion and when I tell you that I was mad. It felt like a…violation,” he went on to say.
“I was gonna say betrayal, but a violation…and I just thought, ‘Wow, here this cast, they all showed up and they all laid themselves totally barren,’ and just a leak. It just totally demeans the work of this crew and this cast and especially again, just all of them for just showing up and sitting there and taking it and I go and I’m on Threads on my way to this eye appointment. I am now in a foul mood,” Andy continued.
“I found out from when I woke up…’cause it seemed like it happened in the middle of the night. It happened overnight, and then there were these hot takes blaming the cast, which I knew immediately. I was like, ‘The cast did not leak this.’ They’re like, ‘Oh, the cast leaked it. Bravo leaked it.’ Just dumb takes and reasons why they would’ve leaked it. To get a better edit, to get a worse edit, to protect themselves, to combat others. I was like, ‘This is stupid,’ and I love this cast and I just, I was like, ‘Oh, now people are blaming this cast,’ and then I will say, I felt so bad in the next 24 hours after that, that the cast was like, ‘I,’ you know, feeling the need to come out and say, ‘I didn’t do it. I didn’t leak it’…I was so mad,” Andy continued.
“I had texted Jen Geisser, the head of publicity at Bravo at an ungodly hour being like, ‘WTF with this leak,’ da da da da da. Now, I wake up from the thing and she’s like, ‘Cagney and Lacey are on it.’ She’s like, ‘Don’t you worry.’ Meanwhile, I love a Cagney and Lacey, so they had investigators and they had Jordan, you’ll like this, audiologists. I mean, they didn’t really have audiologists, but they had people analyzing what kind of device recorded, whatever. I mean, they had investigators,” Andy went on to say.
“So now I’m home. Graciela takes me home. Now I’m home recuperating. Friday night, the investigators were on it and all I can tell you, and you will hear more about this later, but a Bravo fan came forward and let me tell you that Bravo fans are the best and may I also thank the Bravo fan accounts, the dedicated Bravo fan accounts, none of whom posted this illegal audio from the reunion,” he revealed.
“I remember after a reunion, I’m not gonna say what Housewives, and I’m not gonna say ’cause I know which housewife leaked it, but a housewife leaked everything that happened at it was a very dramatic reunion and this Bravo fan account posted everything that had happened and they were correct and I DMed them ’cause I was so pissed, and I said, ‘You know, what you’re doing is you are now ruining it for everyone. Why is this gonna be fun for anyone to watch or why is it gonna be interesting? Why, if you love the shows so much, why would you do that?’ And the fan account responded and was like, ‘I am so sorry. I actually really, I’m your fan.’ They go, ‘What can I do?’ I go, ‘Well, first of all, take this down. Second of all, tell me who leaked it to you,’ and they told me, and the housewife doesn’t know that I know that it was them, but I do know,” Andy added.
“Anyway, so the Bravo fan accounts, they really respected that, which I thought was so cool and by the way, they also weren’t posting any garbage hot takes blaming the cast, but let me say that though this team of investigators were on it, a Bravo fan, who you’re gonna hear more about, cracked the case. Delivered crucial information…Bravo has since released a statement and there you go, and also, there’s, you know, according to Bravo, I know that they said that we are aware there is additional improperly obtained audio circulating and we caution all parties and platforms to refrain from posting, sharing, or amplifying any unauthorized video.”
He also revealed: “There is apparently some more audio…so anyway, it ruins the integrity of the show and all the hard work of the cast who we love and we love this show.” Listen to him speak out above.
