Andy Cohen feels like a fashion influencer after his viral plaid shirt was the inspiration BJ Novak‘s most recent purchase.
“I got this shirt because I saw @bravoandy wearing it,” Novak, 44, wrote alongside a photo of himself in a button-up shirt with an Alex Mill pattern via his Instagram Story on Thursday, December 21. Cohen, 55, was quick to repost the photo, bragging to his followers, “To some, I’m a fashion influencer.”
Cohen became a trending topic on social media earlier this month when he wore a green, yellow and orange flannel to the Z100 Jingle Ball at Madison Square Garden in New York City. He combined the relaxed top with dark blue jeans and white and black sneakers.
The TV personality quickly turned clownish online, with fans throwing shade at him for his red carpet dressing and joking that he looked straight out of the early 2000s. “You must be Andy Cohen wearing concords at jingle ball if you think we’re f—king,” one user wrote via X (formerly Twitter), while another claimed the Bravo director “can’t dress. ”
After more comments came in, Cohen responded to the hilarious outrage by writing on his Instagram Story on December 10, “I deserve this. LOL!”
Cohen further roasted his outfit through his RadioAndy show on December 11. Then his cohost Johannes Heuvel joked that Cohen “went into lesbian cosplay,” Cohen quickly agreed. “I did that without a doubt,” Cohen replied. “I look so bad in these red carpet photos.”
However, Cohen insisted that his outfit did looking good on stage when he introduced Cher. “It looked so good. I’m wearing this bright green shirt and there’s a red background. … It looks festive,” he said.
He added: ‘The red carpet pictures are so bad and I woke up on Saturday morning and went online and it was a bloodbath of me. I thought, ‘Oh man. I look so stupid.”