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Anderson Cooper 10 Personal Facts, Bio, Wiki
American broadcaster
Born: June 3, 1967 (age 55 years), New York, New York, United States
Children: Wyatt Morgan Cooper, Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper
Parents: Gloria Vanderbilt, Wyatt Cooper
Siblings: Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski, Christopher Stokowski
Height: 1.78 m
Great-grandparents: Cornelius Vanderbilt II, Laura Delphine Kilpatrick, Alice Claypoole Vanderbilt, Harry Hayes Morgan Sr
Aunt: Cathleen Vanderbilt
Name Anderson Cooper
Date of Birth 3 June 1967
Age 55 Years Old
Full Name Anderson Hays Cooper
Date of Birth 3 June 1967
Age 55 Years Old
Birth Place New York, New York City, United States
Currently Live In New York
Profession Broadcast Journalist and Political Commentator
Years Active 1990 – Present
Nationality American
Religion Catholic
Ethnicity French, Irish, Scottish, Chilean, English, Dutch, Spanish and Welsh Descent
Hometown New York
Zodiac Sign Gemini
School/High School Dalton High School in Dalton, Georgia
College/University Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut
Trumbull College in New Haven, Connecticut
Vietnam National University in Vietnam
Education Qualification Graduate
Father Name Wyatt Emory Cooper
Mother Name Gloria Vanderbilt
Brother Name Carter Vanderbilt Cooper
Christopher Stokowski
Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski
Sister Name –
Girlfriend Benjamin Maisani (Ex)
Marital Status Unmarried
Children Wyatt Morgan Cooper (Son)
Sebastian Luke Maisani-Cooper (Son)
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Anderson Cooper 10 Fast Facts, Bio, Wiki
As of 2016, Cooper was not registered to any political party.
While promoting his book, Cooper told Oprah Winfrey he had dyslexia as a child. In August 2007, he confirmed his “mild dyslexia” on The Tonight Show to Jay Leno, who also has dyslexia.
Cooper is openly gay; as of 2012, he was (according to The New York Times) “the most prominent openly gay journalist on American television”. For years, Cooper avoided discussing his private life in interviews.
On July 2, 2012, however, he gave Andrew Sullivan permission to publish an email that stated, in part:
I’ve begun to consider whether the unintended outcomes of maintaining my privacy outweigh personal and professional principle.
It’s become clear to me that by remaining silent on certain aspects of my personal life for so long, I have given some the mistaken impression that I am trying to hide something—something that makes me uncomfortable, ashamed or even afraid.
This is distressing because it is simply not true. … The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.
In 2014, Apple CEO Tim Cook, before making the decision to publicly come out as gay, sought Cooper’s advice.
In 2014, Cooper and his long-term partner at the time, Benjamin Maisani, purchased Rye House, a historic estate in Connecticut. In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and Maisani had split up.
The two have remained close friends, however, and went on to co-parent Cooper’s children.
Cooper has been friends with Andy Cohen for over twenty years. They often work and support one another closely, including as they navigate raising their children.
Cooper was friends with Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and host of the CNN series Parts Unknown. After Bourdain died by suicide on June 8, 2018, Cooper paid tribute to him in a CNN special program, Remembering Anthony Bourdain.
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.”
In 2021, 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.