Andy Cohen seemingly isn't letting any backlash to his now-viral New Year's Eve rant get him down. "All the validation I need," Cohen, 57, wrote via his Instagram Stories on Friday, January 2, alongside a snap of a Starbucks coffee cup with the handwritten message, "You did amazing yesterday." Cohen cohosted CNN's New Year's Eve show live from Times Square in New York City with his friend Anderson Cooper. At the end of the night, Cohen slammed Eric Adams' tenure as the mayor of NYC as "chaotic.