Andy Cohen Thanks Lisa Rinna for 'Showing Up' on His 'Most Important Days' Despite 'Complicated' Relationship

Andy Cohen is opening up about his dynamic with Lisa Rinna

NEED TO KNOW

• The pair spoke on Watch What Happens Live on Wednesday, Feb. 25, when Cohen thanked Rinna for showing up for him on two important days

• "It is very clear to me that you have a very complicated relationship with the housewives and a little bit with me as a result of that," he said

Andy CohenthankedLisa Rinnafor supporting him over the years during her latest appearance onWatch What Happens Live.

On Wednesday, Feb. 25, theWWHLhost spoke on his history withThe Traitorsstar as she appeared on his show to chat about her new book,You Better Believe I'm Gonna Talk About It. At the end of their conversation, Cohen, 57, said he had been thinking about his relationship with Rinna, 62, ahead of her visit and the forthcoming reunion for season 4 ofThe Traitors.

"It is very clear to me that you have a very complicated relationship with the housewives and a little bit with me as a result of that," Cohen said. "You know, I have to tell you something. And I have to thank you because what I realized is that you showed up for me on two of the most important days of my life."

Cohen elaborated on his statement, sharing that Rinna appeared at his baby shower and calling her the "hype master" who "got those housewives on the table for me" during an "already amazing" evening. Cohen isdadto son Benjamin Allen Cohen, 7, and daughter Lucy Eve Cohen, 3.

"You did that," Cohen said. "And nobody asked you to do it. It was incredible and I will never forget it."

The second day that Rinna showed support was the day of Cohen'sHollywood Walk of Fame star ceremony. She shared some words about Cohen at the event alongside fellow speakers John Mayer andGarcelle Beauvais.

"[It] was another of the most special days of my entire life," Cohen said. "You were filming that day, you had just come back from Aspen, you were grieving the loss of your mom. You sat with my mom at that lunch afterward and I just want to thank you. You showed up for me on two very important days for me and that is not lost on me. I really appreciate that and I'll never forget it."

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After some applause from Cohen's audience, Rinna told him that it "was my absolute pleasure" to be there for him.

Elsewhere during herWWHLappearance, Rinna explained her mention of Cohen's 2023 memoir,The Daddy Diaries: The Year I Grew Up, in her own book. Per the conversation, Rinna confirmed she was upset that Cohen included personal text messages from her in his book — to the point that she even "burned" the book in her fireplace.

Cohen "apologized" for publishing their texts while reconnecting with Rinna at the already-filmedTraitorsreunion, he said. "I had all these reasons for doing it, and then when I really thought about it, I was like, 'Oh wait, you gotta apologize.' So I'm sorry."

"It was so beautiful to watch your book go up in flames," Rinna joked. "Andy, really, it's an honor. That I would burn your book is kind of an honor."

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Rinna also touched on her tenure onThe Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, which she joined in 2014 and officially departed in 2023. "I was never acting, but as I watch it back, it was a characterization of me being a housewife," she said. "Does that make sense? I think it does."

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“Survivor 50”'s First 2 Eliminated Contestants Speak Out and Reveal What the Premiere Didn't Show (Exclusive)

Survivor's milestone 50th season premiere saw two contestants get eliminated in different ways

NEED TO KNOW

• After their exits, they are speaking out about how things really went down

• Find out what the episode didn't show

Warning: This story contains spoilers for the Feb. 25 premiere episode ofSurvivor's 50th season.

Survivoris one episode into its 50th season, but two contestants are already gone.

Jenna Lewis Dougherty, who was on the show's debut season in 2000 and returned for the first all-star season, was the first person to be voted out and have their torch snuffed byJeff Probstat tribal council. In addition, season 48 winner Kyle Fraser had to be medically evacuated from the game after injuring his Achilles' tendon during the first immunity challenge.

Both Jenna and Kyle talked to PEOPLE after the episode debuted, sharing what really happened in Fiji.

Kyle Fraser

It's been eight months since this all went down. How'd it feel to finally watch the episode?

Kyle: It was good. It's crazy to know that the world has seen it now, so I'm excited that I can be open about it now. I had fun watching the episode, I really did.

Since you had to keep your appearance onSurvivorsecret, did you have a cover story for your injury between filming and now?

Kyle: I told everyone that I was coming down for a rebound in basketball and tore my Achilles. Which, if you know me, is very funny because I'm notoriously bad at basketball. I played lacrosse in college, but I suck at basketball. My close friends figured it out, but my colleagues at work and stuff like that don't know my basketball skills. So it worked out.

When did you realize the injury was the end of your game?

Kyle: I really tried to be optimistic. But in the middle of the night when I had that first sleep, I woke up and I was in pain. I was resting my foot on two rocks — Aubry had helped me put up two rocks to elevate my leg. I just felt the functionality of my foot, and it just was not there. I thought, "I would stay as long as they let me, but they're probably not going to let me stay." It creeped in my head.

But when I woke up, I was like, "I need to keep playing the game. Because if I do get to stay, how would I feel if I just gave up?"

Did you fight to stay?

Kyle: Oh, yeah. There was quite some negotiation with Jeff and Dr. Joe. I cited James fromHeroes vs. Villainsas precedent [for staying with an injury]. When Jeff brought up the liability thing, I actually came back at him. I was like, "I'm a lawyer. I'll sign a waiver." He appreciated the advocacy, but he was exactly right in making sure I was helped.

The episode didn't show it, but you went back down the wall to help Colby up. That's when you got injured. Was there any guilt from him?

Kyle: I think that he was sad, and there was guilt, but it was misplaced. Colby was at the bottom. He was the engine getting people up. He's gassed after lifting literally everybody up, and now the wall's covered in mud on top of it. After everything he did, it's near impossible for him to get up. So I'm like, 'I need to get down and help my teammate who's been helping us.' Because Colby's an athlete, because he's a good person, he was beating himself up a little bit, but it wasn't his fault. Every athlete eventually comes to the understanding that these things do happen, and this was not my day.

Despite the injury, are you happy you went and played again?

Kyle: Oh, hell yeah. I had such a good time playing. And listen, this injury sucks. There's no doubt about it. But I've learned so much about myself. I've had time to learn about patience. I mean, this is an eight-to-12-month recovery. I go to [physical therapy] three times per week. I stayed in the gym three, four times per week. I'm stronger, from an upper-body perspective, than I've ever been in my life. I've learned more about myself as a person that I didn't know. It stinks, and the payoff isn't immediate, but I'm feeling the payoff as we speak. I get to say I'm a part of season 50. Who gets to say that? Only a couple people, so it's awesome.

You have ababy on the way! Will that interfere with you making the live finale and reunion?

Kyle: I don't know. Of course, I would love to be there. I'm still a part of the season, even though it was just for a blip. But first and foremost comes family. Who knows? There's a very narrow window where it could work out. If not, maybe they'll zoom me in like Brenda.

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Jenna Lewis Doughtery

Sorry to see that you're the first one out. How are you doing?

It's easier on this one. The other two, they came to air like a month or two months after we played. This one, it's been eight months. I've had a little time to decompress. But I will tell you, it's also been eight months of the guillotine hanging over my head, especially as you gear up and start doing pre-press. You're waiting to see what the edit's going to be because you're thinking about every dumb thing you said, every dumb thing you did. So once it was actually over, I'm like, "Okay." I felt better, actually.

It felt like you came in hot, especially putting Cirie's name on the chopping block in front of several people.

I will say, it was not me who said Cirie's name first. Not me at all. First day, I felt so uncomfortable. Seemed like everyone else had this rapport — which come to find out, everyone did have that rapport. There were a lot of pre-connections that I was unaware of, but I felt. So I was chatting withChristianday one, trying to bond and "What do you think of the group?' And in his Christian way, he said, I'm going to go over and sit down to who I think is the biggest threat.' He goes and sits next to Cirie while I talk to Devens about Fortnite. And he comes back over — and I will sit in a deposition with Christian — he said, "She's the biggest threat because if there's a swap or there's a merge, she's lost to the wind." That's almost a dead quote. "She's lost to the wind." So I'm like, "Okay, Christian could be an ally." I thought there was an opening there.

Rick Devens goes to the water hole and tells Cirie, "Jenna's saying your name." I probably was, but it was after I was trying to get inroads with Christian and Emily and Devens. Christian made sure I wasn't going to be aligned with Cirie and Ozzy, and it worked. I fell for it. I fell for it because I knew there were these factions that I just was not in on. Christian absolutely masterminded it.

And did you want Cirie gone yourself?

I did think she was a liability. Premerge, you cannot keep someone who is going to make you tank challenges.

Did anyone tell you about Ozzy as a possible candidate to be voted out, like Emily proposed?

Three of them came to me like, "We can do Ozzy." I was like, "Ugh. Are we really going to get rid of one of our biggest challenge beasts but also keep the one who's actively making us lose? I don't think that's a good tradeoff. If we're going to go for one of them, I think it should be Cirie."

Cirie's a lovely woman. I didn't have anything against her out there. I just thought she was a liability.

What about Savannah and Joe in all this?

Savannah and Joe just couldn't come together. Could not be cohesive. It's not like they 100% with either group. They couldn't get it together. I really tried. I mean, obviously — that's why they said I was playing so hard because I felt that I was on the outs of these two groups.

For two new school players – in fact, the two newest school players — they weren't playing fast.

When did you know it was you getting voted out?

I knew that I would definitely get Ozzy and Cirie's votes [going into tribal council]. I didn't know Christian, all this. I think he absolutely masterminded it.

As a mom, what do your kids think of you coming back onSurvivor?

They are completely like, "Whatever, mom." I tried to show them oldSurvivoror even the cover ofTimemagazine and be like, "Hey, this is pretty cool. Don't you have a cool mom?" They could give two craps.

Survivorairs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET on CBS.

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"It's funny, every Grey's actor I talk to who was there during that time is still traumatized by that incident," Shonda Rhimes toldThe Hollywood Reporterabout an early on-set conflict that nearly ended her hit medical drama. That sentiment captures a truth about television: sometimes the most consequential drama happens when cameras stop rolling. This article explores twelve behind-the-scenes conflicts that fundamentally altered shows, careers, and TV history itself.

Behind-the-scenes feuds that permanently rewrote television

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When magic turned toxic on Charmed

Tensionsbetween Shannen Doherty and Alyssa Milano forced Doherty's Season 3 exit, killing off Prue Halliwell and introducing Rose McGowan as a previously unknown sister. According to Holly Marie Combs on Doherty's podcast, a producer told her that Milano delivered an ultimatum: fire Doherty or face a hostile workplace lawsuit. The feudhas persisted for over two decades, with both actresses offering conflicting accounts of who initiated the workplace conflict that ended one of television's most beloved supernatural partnerships.

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Charlie Sheen's meltdown ends an era

Charlie Sheen's public warwith Two and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorreled to his 2011 firing, marking the end of his television career as the highest-paid actor. After Sheen entered rehab and publicly attacked Lorre with profanity-laced tirades, calling him various names and coining phrases like "winning" and "tiger blood," CBS terminated his contract. Ashton Kutcher stepped in,transforming the show's premise entirelyas it continued for four more seasons without its original star.

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The Good Wife's digital deception

Julianna Margulies and Archie Panjabi's alleged riftbecame so severe that their final scene together was filmed separately and composited using split screens, a visible testament to their inability to share a set. When Margulies claimedPanjabi was unavailable due to other commitments, Panjabi publicly contradicted her on social media, stating that she had been in New York and ready to film, which ignited speculation about the true nature of their estrangement.

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Desperate Housewives' desperate isolation

Teri Hatcherreportedly became isolated from her Desperate Housewives co-stars due to salary disputesand perceived aloofness, which affected contract negotiations and created a tabloid narrative that overshadowed the show's success. The tensions culminated when the cast presented the crew with a farewell gift, andHatcher's name was conspicuously absent, replaced instead by Vanessa Williams, who had joined the cast only two seasons prior.

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Isaiah Washington's workplace reckoning

Isaiah Washington's use of a homophobic slurduring an argument with Patrick Dempsey on Grey's Anatomy led to his firing after Season 3, abruptly ending Preston Burke's relationship with Cristina Yang and bringing workplace conduct under greater scrutiny. The incident traumatized the cast and nearly killed the show, according to Rhimes, who noted that actors present during that time still carry the psychological impact of that moment.

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Star Trek's decades of discord

William Shatner's alleged attempts to monopolize screen timecreated decades of public bitterness among the original cast that persisted through movies and convention circuits. George Takei has been particularly vocal, claiming that Shatner changed scripts to diminish the roles of other actors, while Nichelle Nichols called him an "insensitive, hurtful egotist" whose behavior affected everyone around him.

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NCIS and the dog that changed everything

Pauley Perrette and Mark Harmon's conflictover his dog biting a crew memberescalated to the point where Perrette left the show, with her final episodes carefully engineered so that she never directly shared scenes with Harmon. After the dog required 15 stitches to treat a crew member's injuries, Harmon continued bringing it to set. Perrette complained to thenetwork brass, leading to arrangements where the stars filmed separately for her entire final season.

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Moonlighting's frantic collapse

Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willisreportedly clashed both personally and professionally, with production delays stemming from their competing film careers leading to inconsistent scheduling and ultimately, the series' collapse. Willis filmed Die Hard during the show's fourth season while Shepherd dealt with a problematic pregnancy,creating grueling conditionsthat both stars publicly acknowledged years later. However, they eventually reconciled for DVD commentary recordings.

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Chevy Chase burns bridges on Community

Chevy Chase's disruptive behaviorled to reduced screen time and a mid-season departure, with showrunner Dan Harmon famously incorporating a profanity-laced voicemail exchange into the actual storyline. The public feud between the actor and creator became so toxic that Chase left before the show's final season, although both men later expressed regret about how they had handled the situation.

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Saturday Night Live's early misogyny

John Belushi's refusal to perform sketches written by female writerson early Saturday Night Live suppressed emerging voices and highlighted systemic industry misogyny that took decades to address. His behavior toward writers like Anne Beatts and Rosie Shuster created a hostile environment that reflected broader entertainment industry attitudes of the era.

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Andy Kaufman's performance art goes too far

Andy Kaufman's performance art on Taxi, including bringing his alter ego, Tony Clifton, to the set, forced unprecedented accommodations, and his eventual "firing" became foundational TV comedy lore. The boundary between Kaufman's real personality and his performance personas became so blurred that cast and crew struggled to work with him, creating tensions that producers had to manage carefully.

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Harold Perrineau speaks out on Lost

Harold Perrineau's complaints about character developmentand writers' room diversity led to his character being written off, sparking revelations about systemic equity issues that became a major Hollywood case study. His public statements about the lack of representation behind the camera highlighted problems that the industry is still grappling with today.

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Wrapping Up

These conflicts remind us that television's most enduring stories aren't always the ones audiences see on screen. When personality clashes with production, the fallout can reshape entire series, launch meaningful conversations about workplace conduct, and create industry precedents that outlast the shows themselves.

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