Andy Cohen To Pen Coming-Of-Age Memoir

Henry Holt introduced Monday it's acquired the privileges to Bravo Executive V . P . and late evening host Andy Cohen's untitled memoir.our editor recommendsSummer Books: 5 Beach Blanket Must ReadsHow Andy Cohen wrangles the 'Housewives'Andy Cohen Apologizes for 'Tasteless' Heidi Montag TweetBravo Professional Andy Cohen Desired to Stick Knife in Eyes Watching Kids Choir at OscarsKristen Wiig, Andy Cohen, Elijah Wood Chat in Closet in New Web Series (Video) It uses Cohen's existence-lengthy passion for popular culture and entertainment like a focus to inform the storyline of his journey from the closeted gay teen becoming an adult in seventies suburban St. Louis to some multi-hyphenate cable tv giant. Publication is scheduled for summer time 2012. PHOTO: Summer time Books: 5 Beach Blanket Must Reads Inside a statement announcing the offer, Holt's leader and writer Stephen Rubin stated: "Anybody who sees what Andy Cohen has accomplished at Bravo knows the man is really a marketing genius. What nobody knows by yet, is the fact that Andy is another very sexy and compelling author having a story to inform which will charm, shock and engage visitors using its candor, honesty, and wit. Andy is really as irresistible about the page because he is on the watch's screen.Inch Cohen added, "I enjoy write and I am thrilled which i reach share tales of my improbable crossing points with popular culture which have overflowing my existence. Like a teen Cohen's passion for such hit Television shows because the Brady Bunch, Laverne & Shirley, and Donnie and Marieled him to maneuver to New You are able to in the twenties to pursue work in entertainment. He arrived his first job at CBS News, where he eventually rose to senior producer on CBS Today and 48 Hrs. He moved onto a programming job at NBC Universal's TRIO before presuming his present position as mind of original programming for Bravo. One of the Bravo hits that Cohen has shepherded towards the small screen are Queer Eye for that Straight Guy, Project Runway, Kathy Griffin: My Existence about the D-List. He's won both an Emmy along with a Peabody Award and Out Magazine named him the most popular blogger of 2006. Henry Holt promises Cohen's memoir "includes many amusing moments of incidents about the set even though on assignment, and talk about his coming-of-age social existence full of antics and mayhem." Cohen is repped by CAA. The deal weren't introduced, though Cohen apparently received a six-figure advance for that book. Related Subjects Bravo