Susan Lucci and Andy Cohen.Photo:Andy Cohen/Instagram
Andy Cohen/Instagram
Andy CohenandSusan Lucci are looking back on the touching start of their decades-long friendship.
Sharing a photo from the pair’s recent reunion, the 55-year-old Bravo mogul reflected on the history of his longstanding friendship with the 76-year-oldAll My Childrenalum — and how she encouraged his journalistic endeavors when he was just a teenager.
“We’ve run into each other over the years and had a wonderful reunion today (and I finally got to return the favor of picking up the tab!) #EricaKaneForever,” Cohen concluded, referencing Lucci’s soap opera character.
Now, theWatch What Happens Livehost has built an illustrious television career, going on to become a longtime Bravo producer, executive and host.
Andy Cohen.Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty
“We’re voyeurs, but we also love stories,” he continued. “We want to be entertained, and I think that the ultimate expression of voyeurism is reality television.
Cohen added, “I know Lucci doesn’t agree with me, but I think that the Housewives have replaced soap operas because truth is stranger than fiction. Soaps became kind of unnecessary because you could do it with real people, and they’re writing the drama themselves.”
All My Childrenaired for 41 years on ABC from January 5, 1970, to September 23, 2011. It was later revived briefly as a web series in 2013. (The show began in a half-hour format before changing to hourlong episodes in 1977.)
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Susan Lucci.Mike Coppola/Getty
Noting that word about the forthcoming project comes “sporadically,” Lucci — who starred as character Erica Kane on the daytime soap opera from 1970 until its final episode in 2013 — shared: “There has been movement. I wish it was a quicker movement, but yes, everything in terms of being in the right hands, as far as I know, would be in place.”
“It’s really interesting, and the concept is so good,” she continued. “[It’s] in the right hands … [with] Kelly Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, who are both so terrific. They would be executive producers, so I’m really hoping that this is going to actually go forward.”
source: people.com
