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Anderson Cooper
Anderson Hays Cooper is an American broadcast journalist and political commentator who anchors the CNN news broadcast show Anderson Cooper 360°. In addition to his duties at CNN, for two decades Cooper served as a correspondent for 60 Minutes, produced by CBS News. After graduating from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts in 1989, he began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regi…
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2026· 5 entries
“Yeah, I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset, but it”
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“Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in.”
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Public attention spiked: 12,493 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.6× the usual 2,739, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 10,746 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.9× the usual 2,739, with 0 article edits.
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2024· 2 entries
Rappler rated the claim “CNN has a news report with the headline “PHILIPPINES FACES UNIQUE CHALLENGE WITH COCAINE-ADDICTED PRESIDENT” referring to Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The said news report was from CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, host of the CNN show Anderson Cooper 360°. The photo below shows his face, the given headline, a…” False.
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USA Today rated the claim “Anderson Cooper and Kathy Griffin are named in the Epstein documents” False.
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2023· 3 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “MSNBC’s Joy Reid hawked diet gummies in an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper.” Pants on Fire.
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AP News rated the claim “Pfizer was caught “funneling” $12 million to CNN host Anderson Cooper to promote COVID-19 vaccines.” False.
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CNN launched a new Sunday primetime series, The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper
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2022· 3 entries
Awarded Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (2022).
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Cooper announced at the beginning of his show on CNN that he had just become a father for a second time to a son named Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper
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Cooper launched a deeply personal podcast exploring grief and loss
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2021· 3 entries
AP News rated the claim “CNN journalist Anderson Cooper wants Social Security payments to be withheld from those who are unvaccinated.” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A former QAnon believer apologized to Anderson Cooper for thinking ate babies.” True.
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Cooper and co-author Katherine Howe published Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty, a history of the Vanderbilt family going back to his Vanderbilt ancestors who came to New Amsterdam in the 17th century
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2020· 5 entries
Snopes rated the claim “CNN anchor Anderson Cooper likened U.S. President Donald Trump to an "obese turtle on his back flailing in the hot sun."” Correct Attribution.
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FactCheck.org rated the claim “The ad shows CNN's Anderson Cooper saying to Joe Biden: "To gun owners out there who say, well, a Biden administration means they're going to come for my guns." After that, Biden is shown saying, "Bingo. You're right."” Out of Context.
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Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan Cooper to a surrogate mother on April 27
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“On Monday I became a father. I”
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Cooper also paid tribute to Bourdain on the Thanksgiving 2020 episode of Anderson Cooper Full Circle, saying that he was "proud to call Anthony Bourdain a friend", and adding: "He is so, so missed by so many."
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2018· 4 entries
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says CNN’s Anderson Cooper stood in a ditch during Hurricane Florence to exaggerate water levels.” Pants on Fire.
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Vox rated the claim “Anderson Cooper exaggerated his live shot while reporting on Hurricane Florence.” False.
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Awarded Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism (2018).
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Cooper paid tribute to him in a CNN special program, Remembering Anthony Bourdain
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2017· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A video shows Anderson Cooper laughing uncontrollably after Kellyanne Conway used the phrase "alternative facts."” False.
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Cooper's close friend, Andy Cohen, joined Cooper in succeeding Kathy Griffin as co-host of CNN's New Year's Eve coverage
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Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, co-authored The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss
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2016· 3 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph shows CNN reporter Anderson Cooper seductively posing in his underwear.” False.
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Cooper became the first LGBT person to moderate a presidential debate, and he has received several GLAAD Media Awards
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As of 2016, Cooper was not registered to any political party.
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2014· 3 entries
Cooper and his long-term partner at the time, Benjamin Maisani, purchased Rye House, a historic estate in Connecticut
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Apple CEO Tim Cook sought Cooper's advice before making the decision to publicly come out as gay
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Cooper appeared in Henry Louis Gates Jr
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded GLAAD Vito Russo Award (2013).
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2012· 3 entries
It was announced that Anderson Live would end at the conclusion of its second season
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However, he gave Andrew Sullivan permission to publish an email that stated, in part:
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Becoming "the most prominent gay journalist on American television"
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2011· 1 entry
And as part of negotiations over the talk show deal, Cooper signed a new multi-year contract with CNN to continue as the host of Anderson Cooper 360°
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded The Sidney Award (2010).
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2008· 2 entries
Cooper told Oprah Winfrey he had dyslexia as a child
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Cooper, Gupta, and Lisa Ling from National Geographic Explorer teamed up for a sequel, Planet in Peril: Battle Lines, which premiered in December 2008
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2007· 2 entries
Began hosting CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute, a show about extraordinary deeds by ordinary people
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When Philbin underwent triple-bypass heart surgery
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2005· 2 entries
During CNN coverage of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he confronted Sen
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Cooper covered the tsunami damage in Sri Lanka; the Cedar Revolution in Beirut, Lebanon; the death of Pope John Paul II; and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles
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2003· 1 entry
Cooper became the anchor of Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN
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2002· 1 entry
Became CNN's weekend prime-time anchor
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2001· 2 entries
Joined CNN, commenting, "Two seasons was enough, and 9/11 happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news
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Cooper joined CNN, where he was given his own show, Anderson Cooper 360°; he has remained the show's host since
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2000· 1 entry
Switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC's reality show The Mole:
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1995· 2 entries
But he soon took more jobs throughout the network, working for a short time as a co-anchor, reality game show host, and fill-in morning talk show host
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Cooper became a correspondent for ABC News, eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its overnight World News Now program on September 21, 1999
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1994· 1 entry
That he had slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the Rwandan genocide became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, it's a dozen, it's not so bad
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1992· 1 entry
Filmed stories from Somalia, Bosnia, and Rwanda
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1989· 2 entries
Studied at Yale University (1989).
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Began traveling the world, shooting footage of war-torn regions for Channel One News
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1988· 1 entry
At age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment
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1967· 1 entry
Born 1967-06-03.
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