A midnight mishap! Ryan Seacrest recalled an incident the place Taylor Swift unintentionally ended up together with his internet hosting communication gear throughout Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2015.
“When I was with Taylor Swift one year, it was cold, so I gave her my coat after she’d just performed and I realized all of my communication equipment was attached to it,” the Emmy winner, 48, completely instructed Us Weekly on Thursday, December 29, whereas selling the vacation particular with cohost Liza Koshy. “So, I couldn’t really communicate with anybody in the production, which I didn’t think about prior.”
When the Live With Kelly and Ryan persona started taking off his jacket to supply it to Swift, 33, throughout the dwell broadcast, the Midnights musician quipped: “Are you stripping? This is a family show. This is inappropriate!”
The second with the “Anti-Hero” singer isn’t the one aggravating second that Seacrest has skilled whereas filming the dwell particular through the years.
“I have been stuck in the elevator getting up to the ball before. That was a little stressful because they tell you to remain calm and it’s almost impossible,” the Georgia native — who cohosted New Year’s Rockin’ Eve with Clark from 2005 to 2011 and took over for the cultural icon after his loss of life in 2012 — shared. “There are things that happen along the way that come together in the final seconds. [For example], performers who are not ready, but we try to make things up to say in the interim so that it looks like we’re on schedule.”
Seacrest instructed Us that regardless of his years of expertise, he nonetheless seems like he has one thing to show each time the annual occasion rolls round. “I was a kid watching this show, watching other people do the things that I get a chance to do every day. Wanting to do it. And I feel like I’ve gotta prove that I’m worthy of doing it every single time,” he defined. “I think that is part of what keeps it exciting for me too.”
Koshy, 26, for her half, joined the particular as a cohost for the primary time in 2021. “I am looking forward to my second year. I’m not the new kid on the block anymore,” the YouTuber instructed Us. “I’m very happy to put all those learnings into use and to go down the streets again and be interactive with our huge crowd that’s coming.”
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Last New Year’s Eve, Andy Cohen made headlines after he threw shade at Seacrest’s broadcast. “If you look behind me, you’ll see Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers performing,” Cohen, 54, mentioned whereas cohosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper. “I’m sorry, but if you’re watching ABC, you’re watching nothing.”
The Watch What Happens Live host later joked through Twitter that he had been “overserved” on the time of his feedback. Although he laughed off his drunken rant, he expressed remorse for calling out his fellow tv persona.
“I did wind up kind of starting to throw ABC under the bus and that is my only regret from the night because I really like Ryan Seacrest,” the Missouri native mentioned throughout a January look on The Howard Stern Show. “He’s a really nice guy. And I was — as they say — in my cups, and I was kind of enjoying the rant. I was like, ‘Wow, it’s really fun being on CNN just ranting like a nutty guy. This is fun.’ So, I kept going and that I felt bad about, and I texted Ryan the next morning.”
Seacrest instructed Us that he bears no ill-will towards his counterparts at CNN. “You know, those guys, we’ve been friends for so many years and we’re all in it together. We’re all out there blocks away from each other, bringing in the new year, trying to have a good time and convey that sort of fun. So, I wish them the best of luck and a great show,” he mentioned.
Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest airs on ABC Saturday, December 31, at 8 p.m. ET.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi.
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