Photograph by Frank Veronsky
Andy Cohen had lots of reasons to look forward to a trip home to St. Louis over the weekend.
Cohen, a Clayton High School alum who named his dog Wacha, threw out the first pitch at the St. Louis Cardinals game on Friday with his parents by his side. He visited his cousin Josh Allen, owner of Companion bakery and cafe, at the bakery’s new Westport location. He even went to a fundraiser for Missouri senate candidate Jason Kander.
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One thing Cohen didn’t have to do: hobnob with the brash and bold personalities of the Real Housewives of St. Louis.
That’s because there are no “Real Housewives of St. Louis,” which may seem odd once you realize that Cohen is the man behind the hit Real Housewives franchise. The closest St. Louis comes to having a RHOSTL is seeing Jim Edmonds and his wife Meghan bringing some St. Louis flavor to season ten of the Real Housewives of Orange County.
Cohen has said before he doesn’t want to start a franchise of his most famous creation in St. Louis. As the Bravo executive told the New York Times in 2010: "I'm from St. Louis. I know the real housewives of St. Louis. I don't necessarily want to see them on TV. Please don't let that be a slam on my hometown because it's my favorite place."
Before Cohen threw the first pitch at the Cardinals-Diamondbacks game Friday, he redoubled his commitment to keeping Real Housewives out of St. Louis.
“You don’t poop where you eat,” Cohen said when asked why there’s no RHOSTL in an interview broadcast on the jumbotron for the whole stadium. “I don’t want to come back to St. Louis and have to deal with the Real Housewives of St. Louis.”
That’s a clear—if gross—way to put it, Andy. Sounds like RHOSTL was never meant to be.
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