Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen has been renewed at Bravo.
The late night talk show is returning following a handful of allegations that were made against host Cohen by two former stars of the Real Housewives franchise.
In a statement, NBC confirmed that an investigation into Cohen’s conduct had been completed prior to the renewal of WWHL.
‘The outside investigation into the recent allegations made by Brandi Glanville and Leah McSweeney against Andy Cohen has now been completed, and the claims were found to be unsubstantiated,’ the network said.
Watch What Happens Live joins a slew of other programs that have been renewed at the network, including The Valley, Summer House, Married to Medicine, Southern Charm, Southern Hospitality, and Below Deck.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen has been renewed at Bravo and the host has been cleared by the network of misconduct following an official investigation
The Real Housewives of Potomac, Atlanta, New York City, Miami, Orange County, and Beverly Hills have all been renewed too.
Bravo will also launch two brand new reality shows: Making It in Manhattan, about a young group of friends in New York, and On Safari, which follows tour guides in South Africa as they create luxury experiences for thrill-seeking clients.
In February, Glanville accused Bravo bigwig Cohen of sexual harassment in an explosive legal letter that was sent by her attorneys to NBC, Shed Media and Warner Bros.
Glanville, 51, claimed that an ‘obviously inebriated’ Cohen sent her a video of himself saying that he wanted to have sex with another Bravo star and invited her to watch the act over FaceTime in 2022.
‘In a video sent by Mr. Cohen to Ms. Glanville in 2022, Mr. Cohen—appearing obviously inebriated—boasted of his intention to sleep with another Bravo star that night while thinking of her and invited her to watch via Facetime,’ her attorney Bryan Freedman wrote.
In February, Brandi Glanville accused Bravo bigwig Cohen of sexual harassment in an explosive legal letter that was sent by her attorneys to NBC, Shed Media and Warner Bros
The identity of the ‘Bravo star’ was not disclosed in the letter but Cohen later revealed it to be Below Deck alum Kate Chastain as he responded to Glanville’s accusations on X (formerly Twitter) Wednesday.
Cohen said that he — an openly gay man — and Chastain were ‘joking’ about hooking up but acknowledged it was ‘inappropriate.’
‘The video shows Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi. It was absolutely meant in jest, and Brandi’s response clearly communicated she was in on the joke. That said, it was totally inappropriate and I apologize,’ the WWHL host wrote.
In the legal letter, Freedman notes that Cohen was Glanville’s superior at the time the alleged video was sent as she was working on the second season of The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip, a Real Housewives spin-off for NBC’s streaming service Peacock.
She’d also worked closely with Cohen for over 10 years after landing a spot on the hit Bravo series Real Housewives Of Beverly Hills back in 2011.
Meanwhile, McSweeney filed the lawsuit against Andy and Bravo and alleged cocaine use is rampant at the the network, with the producer and on-air personality both using the illegal drug and providing it to employees.
The Bravo producer ‘engages in cocaine use with Housewives that he employs,’ according to the suit filed in New York’s Southern District by McSweeney.
She said in court docs reviewed by Page Six that Cohen ‘tends to provide the Housewives with whom he uses cocaine with more favorable treatment’ and strategic editing to make them look better.
Andy ‘intentionally uses cocaine with his employees to further promote a workplace culture that thrives off drug and alcohol use, which leads to a failure to accommodate employees who are disabled and trying to stay substance free,’ McSweeney said in court docs.
A rep for Cohen told Dailymail.com that ‘the claims against Andy are completely false.’
Leah, 41, appeared on two seasons of The Real Housewives of New York City in 2020-2021, and on a season of Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip, which aired last year.
