After Journey carried out on the ABC present, Andy referred to the band as “Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers which might be performing behind us.”
He doubled down and added, “I imply, with all due [respect], in the event you’ve been watching ABC tonight, you’ve got seen nothing. I am sorry.”
Andy admitted he might have had an excessive amount of to drink through the broadcast, as he captioned his Jan. 1 Instagram post, “I used to be a hair over-served final evening, however man did I’ve enjoyable! I hope you probably did too.”
Nevertheless, Andy later apologized for his feedback.
“The one factor that I remorse saying, the one factor is that I slammed the ABC broadcast and I actually like Ryan Seacrest and he is an ideal man,” he stated on SiriusXM’s Andy Cohen Stay in January 2022. “And I actually remorse saying that, and I used to be simply silly and drunk and feeling it.”
After that 12 months’s protection, CNN applied their new guidelines and Ryan took a second to weigh in on the change, telling Entertainment Weekly in December 2022 that he does not “advocate consuming when one is on the air.”