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Anderson CooperCooper in 2010BornAnderson Hays Cooper June 3, 1967 , U.S.Alma materOccupationBroadcast JournalistYears active1990–presentChildren1Parent(s) RelativesWebsite on Anderson Hays Cooper (born June 3, 1967) is an American broadcast journalist. He is the primary of the news show . The program is usually broadcast live from a New York City studio; however, Cooper often broadcasts live from CNN's studios in Washington, D.C., or on location for stories. In addition, he is a correspondent for .

From September 2011 to May 2013, he also served as host of his own syndicated daytime talk show, .

Contents Early life and family Cooper was born in , , the younger son of the writer and the artist, , writer, and heiress . His maternal grandparents were millionaire equestrian and socialite , and his maternal great-great-great-grandfather was business magnate , who founded the prominent Vanderbilt shipping and railroad fortune. He is also a descendant, through his mother, of , who was with General on his march through . Through his "Vanderbilt" line, he is a second cousin, once removed, of screenwriter .

Cooper's media experience began early. As a baby, he was photographed by for . At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on on September 17, 1970, appearing with his mother. At the age of nine, he appeared on as an impostor. From age 10 to 13, Cooper modeled with for , and .

Cooper's father suffered a series of heart attacks while undergoing open-heart surgery, and died January 5, 1978, at the age of 50. Cooper considers his father's book Families to be "sort of a guide on...how he would have wanted me to live my life and the choices he would have wanted me to make. And so I feel very connected to him."

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City . Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expressed her belief that the suicide was caused by a induced by an to the anti- . Anderson cites Carter's suicide for sparking his interest in journalism.

> "Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it's something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can't tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?"

Cooper was educated at the , a private co-educational university preparatory day school in New York City. At age 17, after graduating from Dalton a semester early, Cooper traveled around Africa for several months on a "survival trip". He contracted on the trip and was hospitalized in . Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in." Cooper attended , where he resided in . He was inducted into the , majoring in and graduating with a in 1989.

Career During college, Cooper spent two summers as an intern at the while studying political science. He pursued journalism with no formal journalistic education and is a self-proclaimed "news junkie since [he] was in utero." After his first correspondence work in the early 1990s, he took a break from reporting and lived in for a year, during which time he studied the at .

Channel One Cooper at during the After Cooper graduated from Yale, he tried to gain entry-level employment with answering telephones, but was unsuccessful. Finding it hard to get his foot in the door of on-air reporting, Cooper decided to enlist the help of a friend in making a fake press pass. At the time, Cooper was working as a for the small news agency , which produces a youth-oriented news program that is broadcast to many junior high and high schools in the United States. Cooper then entered Myanmar on his own with his forged press pass and met with students fighting the Burmese government. He was ultimately able to sell his home-made news segments to .

After reporting from Myanmar, Cooper lived in Vietnam for a year to study the Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi. Persuading Channel One to allow him to bring a camera with him, Cooper soon began filming and assembling reports of Vietnamese life and culture that aired on Channel One. He later returned to filming stories from a variety of war-torn regions around the globe, including , , and .

On assignment for several years, Cooper had very slowly become desensitized to the violence he was witnessing around him; the horrors of the became trivial: "I would see a dozen bodies and think, you know, it's a dozen, it's not so bad." One particular incident, however, snapped him out of it:

> On the side of the road [Cooper] came across five bodies that had been in the sun for several days. The skin of a woman's hand was peeling off like a glove. Revealing fascination, Cooper whipped out his disposable camera and took a closeup photograph for his personal album. As he did, someone took a photo of him. Later that person showed Cooper the photo, saying, "You need to take a look at what you were doing." "And that's when I realized I've got to stop, [...] I've got to report on some state fairs or a beauty pageant or something, to just, like, remind myself of some perspective."

ABC In 1995 Cooper became a correspondent for , eventually rising to the position of co-anchor on its overnight program on September 21, 1999. In 2000 he switched career paths, taking a job as the host of ABC's reality show .

> My last year at ABC, I was working overnights anchoring this newscast, then during the day at . So I was sleeping in two- or four-hour shifts, and I was really tired and wanted a change. I wanted to clear my head and get out of news a little bit, and I was interested in reality TV—and it was interesting.

Cooper was also a fill-in co-host for for the TV talk show in 2007 when Philbin underwent triple-bypass heart surgery. As of 2019, he still periodically serves as guest co-host on Live when one of the two hosts cannot go into work.

CNN Cooper left after its to return to broadcast news. In 2001, he joined CNN, commenting, "Two seasons was enough, and happened, and I thought I needed to be getting back to news." His first position at CNN was to anchor alongside on . In 2002 he became CNN's weekend prime-time anchor. Since 2002, he has hosted CNN's from .

Anderson Cooper 360° On September 8, 2003, Cooper became the anchor of on CNN. Describing his philosophy as an , he has said:

> I think the notion of traditional anchor is fading away, the all-knowing, all-seeing person who speaks from on high. I don't think the audience really buys that anymore. As a viewer, I know I don't buy it. I think you have to be yourself, and you have to be real and you have to admit what you don't know, and talk about what you do know, and talk about what you don't know as long as you say you don't know it. I tend to relate more to people on television who are just themselves, for good or for bad, than I do to someone who I believe is putting on some sort of persona. The is a reasonable of some anchors who have that problem.

In 2005 Cooper covered a number of important stories, including the in ; the in , ; the ; and the . In August 2005, he covered the from .

Cooper at the in Washington, D.C., 2009In 2005, during CNN coverage of the aftermath of , he confronted Sen. , Sen. , and the Reverend about their perception of the government response. As Cooper said later in an interview with magazine, “Yeah, I would prefer not to be emotional and I would prefer not to get upset, but it's hard not to when you're surrounded by brave people who are suffering and in need.” A contributor to magazine wrote: "In its aftermath, Hurricane Katrina served to usher in a new breed of emo-journalism, skyrocketing CNN's Anderson Cooper to superstardom as CNN's golden boy and a darling of the media circles because of his impassioned coverage of the storm."

In September 2005 the format of CNN's was changed from 60 to 120 minutes to cover the unusually violent . To help distribute some of the increased workload, Cooper was temporarily added as co-anchor to . This arrangement was reported to have been made permanent the same month by the president of CNN's U.S. operations, , who has called Cooper "the anchorperson of the future." Following the addition of Cooper, the ratings for NewsNight increased significantly; Klein remarked that "[Cooper's] name has been on the tip of everyone's tongue." To further capitalize on this, Klein announced a major programming shakeup on November 2, 2005. Cooper's 360° program would be expanded to 2 hours and shifted into the 10 pm ET slot formerly held by NewsNight, with the third hour of 's filling in Cooper's former 7 pm ET slot. With "no options" left for him to host shows, left CNN, ostensibly having "mutually agreed" with Jonathan Klein on the matter.

In early 2007 Cooper signed a multi-year deal with CNN that would allow him to continue as a contributor to , as well as doubling his salary from $2 million annually to a reported $4 million.

CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute In 2007 he began hosting , a show which honors and recognizes extraordinary deeds by ordinary people.

Planet in Peril documentary In October 2007 Cooper began hosting the documentary Planet in Peril, with and on CNN. In 2008, Cooper, Gupta, and from teamed up for a sequel, Planet in Peril: Battle Lines, which premiered in December 2008.

Syndicated talk show, Anderson Live In September 2010 and (both corporate siblings of CNN) announced that Cooper had signed an agreement to host a nationally syndicated talk show. The journalist (at the time employed by , and now by ), reported on Twitter that the new Warner Bros. daytime talk show would be named (now titled Anderson Live). The show premiered on September 12, 2011, and, as part of negotiations over the talk show deal, Cooper signed a new multi-year contract with CNN to continue as the host of Anderson Cooper 360°. On October 29, 2012, it was announced that Anderson Live would end at the conclusion of its second season. The show, slightly renamed after season one and revamped with a variety of co-hosts, failed to achieve the ratings distributor Warner Brothers hoped for. The final Anderson Live aired on May 30, 2013.

2016 presidential debates Along with , Cooper moderated the second between and . This made him the first openly gay person to moderate a presidential debate in the general election.

New Years Eve In 2017 joined Cooper in succeeding as co-host of CNN's . They again co-hosted CNN's New Year's Eve for 2018.

60 Minutes Cooper at the 71st Annual (Astoria Hotel, May 21, 2012)Cooper has been a correspondent for the program since 2007, while concurrently serving as a CNN anchor and correspondent.

AC2 and Cooper announced that they would be going on a national tour to perform their conversational stage show AC2 beginning in March 2015. The tour opened in , followed by , and . The idea for the show came about after Cooper interviewed Cohen about his then-latest book, The Andy Cohen Diaries, at an event at the in . Since then, the two-man show has continued to tour, reaching over 50 cities as of October 2018.

Broadway Cooper was the narrator for the 2011 Broadway revival of , directed by and starring .

Writings A writer, Cooper has authored a variety of articles that have appeared in many other outlets, including magazine.

In May 2006 Cooper published a for , Dispatches from the Edge, detailing his life and work in , Africa, and over the previous year. Some of the book's proceeds are donated to charity. The book topped on June 18, 2006.

In 2017 Cooper and his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, co-authored The Rainbow Comes and Goes: A Mother and Son on Life, Love, and Loss . Complied from a series of emails, the memoir recounts their shared past, and Vanderbilt's tumultuous childhood. Cooper said his goal in writing the book and correspondence was to leave "nothing left unsaid" between the pair. It landed on multiple best-seller lists the year of its publication.

Personal life Cooper has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus "Stan" Stokowski (b. 1950), and Christopher Stokowski (b. 1952), from 's ten-year marriage to the conductor . Also in 2014, Cooper appeared in ' , where he learned of an ancestor, Burwell Boykin, who was a slave owner from the southern United States.

While promoting his book, Cooper told that he had as a child. In August 2007, he confirmed his "mild dyslexia" on to , who also has dyslexia.

Cooper is openly gay; according to , he is "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 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, Cooper and his partner purchased , a historic estate in Connecticut. CEO turned to Cooper for advice before he subsequently made the decision to publicly come out as gay.

In March 2018, Cooper confirmed that he and his long-time boyfriend Benjamin Maisani had split up.

On April 30, 2020, Cooper announced the birth of his son Wyatt Morgan by a on April 27. Though Cooper and Maisani are no longer together, the pair plan to Wyatt.

Awards YearAwardOrganizationWorkCategoryResult1993Bronze TellyTelly AwardsCoverage of in SomaliaWon1997/Coverage of 'sWon2001: "High School Hero" – report on high school athlete .Outstanding TV JournalismWon2005 at theCoverage ofWonPress Club of Atlantic City Anderson Cooper 360: "Wave of Destruction" – coverageCoverage of a Major News EventWon2006/Anderson Cooper 360: "Charity Hospital" Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastWonAnderson Cooper 360: "Starving in Plain Sight"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long FormWon2007/Anderson Cooper 360: "Sago Mines"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Breaking News Story – Long FormNominatedAnderson Cooper 360: "High Rise Crash"Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Lighting Direction & Scenic DesignNominatedBusiness & Financial ReportingAnderson Cooper 360: "Black Market Infertility"Outstanding Coverage of a Current Business News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated2008/Anderson Cooper 360: "Unapproved Drugs"Outstanding Feature Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominatedAnderson Cooper 360: "Chicago Police Brutality"Outstanding Investigative Journalism in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastNominated2010Reporting onAwarded2011/Anderson Cooper 360: "Haiti in Ruins"Outstanding Coverage of a Breaking News Story in a Regularly Scheduled NewscastWonAnderson Cooper 360: "Crisis in Haiti"Outstanding Live Coverage of a Current News Story – Long FormWon2013AwardedYear of award unknownCareer timeline Filmography Books See also References External links Anderson Cooperat Wikipedia's News anchors and hostsSpecial episode anchors and hostsCorrespondentsAnalystsContributorsMeteorologistsPast anchorsPast correspondentsPast contributorsFormer co-hosts of The People of AnchorWeekday co-hostsSaturday co-hostsAnchorAnchorCorrespondentsAnchorCorrespondentsModeratorCorrespondents Correspondents (base city) Contributors [//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1]Retrieved from "": Hidden categories: Anderson Cooper | Biography & Facts | Britannica ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dimitrios KambourisGetty ImagesAnderson Cooper, CNN news anchor and heir to his mother Gloria Vanderbilt's fortune, is father! The TV journalist announced the birth of his son, Wyatt Morgan Cooper, in late April 2020.

The happy news comes less than a year after he lost his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt. In June of 2019, heiress and fashion icon Gloria Vanderbilt passed away. Her son, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper confirmed the news, sharing that she died at home surrounded by loved ones following a short battle with stomach cancer. She was 95-years-old.

The great-great-granddaughter of railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt, Gloria was a chameleon, who successfully reinvented herself multiple times. Over the course of her life, she tried her hand at everything from painting to designing denim, and in her latter years, she even became an in her own right.

According to the New York Post, Cooper just inherited the majority her estate, a sum which . The publication that her will was filed in Manhattan, and it "says the recently deceased socialite fashion icon’s eldest son Leopold 'Stan' Stokowski will get her Midtown pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place, but 'all the rest' of her property goes to the CNN host."

Anderson Cooper and his mother, Gloria VanderbiltGetty ImagesBut the inheritance is somewhat unexpected.

"My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund," Cooper once told Howard Stern in a radio interview . "There's none of that."

"I don't believe in inheriting money," Cooper explained. "I think it's an initiative sucker. I think it's a curse."

The journalist continued, "From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would've been so motivated."

But with five Emmy wins, a GLAAD Media Award, and a Peabody under his belt, the television personality is doing fine on his own, thank you very much.

It's unclear if he has plans to donate any of the inheritance to charity, given his previous statements.

.Prior to this inheritance, celebritynetworth.com estimated that Cooper makes $12 million a year and is worth about $110 million.

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BravoGetty ImagesWhen his mother at the age of 95 from stomach cancer, journalist Anderson Cooper likely wasn't expecting a large inheritance.

"My mom's made clear to me that there's no trust fund," Cooper once told Howard Stern in a radio interview. "There's none of that."

But that Vanderbilt left Cooper almost her entire estate. According to the publication, Vanderbilt's will, which was filed in court in Manhattan, "says the recently deceased socialite fashion icon’s eldest son Leopold “Stan” Stokowski will get her Midtown pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place, but 'all the rest' of her property goes to the CNN host." Vanderbilt's estranged son Chris Stokowski was not named in the document.

Advertisement - Continue Reading BelowThe great-great-granddaughter of a railroad tycoon, Vanderbilt's net worth was rumored to be $200 million when she passed away, a sum stemming from and profits from her successful denim business. .

Cooper has previously said publicly that he doesn't believe in inheriting money.

"I think it's an initiative sucker. I think it's a curse," he said. "From the time I was growing up, if I felt that there was some pot of gold waiting for me, I don't know that I would've been so motivated." At this point, it's unclear if his previous stance will impact what Cooper chooses to do with his mother's estate.

He and his mother we obviously very close. Following Vanderbilt's death, . "What an extraordinary life," he said. "What an extraordinary mom. What an incredible woman."

Watch that program in full below:



This content is imported from Twitter. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.> Gloria Vanderbilt died this morning, according to her son, CNN's Anderson Cooper.

The fashion designer and socialite was 95.

— CNN (@CNN) Related Stories

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