Anderson Cooper Gets Bugged Out In Brazil

E! Online's Planet Gossip Blog   |  Marc Malkin   |   October 18, 2007 11:15 PM


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Anderson Cooper isn't the outdoorsy type.

Just ask the silver fox anchorman what it was like shooting Planet in Peril, the new four-hour environmental-issues series he did with Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin. The two, along with CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta, crossed four continents and 13 countries for the series, which debuts on CNN Tues., Oct. 23.

"What I really learned is you actually have to go into nature to report on the environment, which is sort of annoying because I really don't like nature very much," Cooper said last night at a Netflix-hosted preview of the series at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood. "And to be with Jeff Corwin, who really does seem to enjoy it, was a little disconcerting."

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I guess for $6 million a year people who do just about anything.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:22 PM on 10/20/2007

Oh, come on, you just know he was looking at that snake and thinking "Man! I wonder how many pair of boots would this thing make?".

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:32 PM on 10/21/2007

pathetic

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 10:44 PM on 10/19/2007
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Andy has such great gay moments. The last one I recall was when Ryan Sea-Thing was hosting Larry King. They had the biggest, gayest television moment of man flirts I have seen in a while. Loved it. So, I can imagine the heat with him, Jeff Corwin, a snake and the steam of the rain forest.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:00 PM on 10/19/2007

Apart from Anderson's dislike of the jungle, the concern for wildlife being sold/smuggled to China for food and medicine is a very real concern.
Exotic and endangered wildlife is often thought of in China as having exotic effects on people's health, so, there is a growing market in these animals.
While snake or turtle soup will certainly make your yang stand up and make you very warm in winter, some animals are consumed for their uniqueness alone.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:55 PM on 10/19/2007

One of CNN's advertising sponsors for this project is ConocoPhillips. As part of a 2005 settlement with the EPA and 4 states, CP has delayed putting in over a half billion dollars worth of emissions controls at refineries. CP is also planning to expand its Wood River, IL refinery in order to process heavy crude oil derived from Canadian tar sands. This process will not only profoundly damage an area of pristine Canadian wilderness in Alberta, the process releases great amounts of carbon dioxide that is threatening Canada's ability to fulfill its commitment to the Kyoto Protocol.

If they want to be taken seriously, one would think that CNN would have sought a corporate sponsor who was more concerned about the environment than CP.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:49 PM on 10/19/2007
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"Nature! Get it off me!" -Melman the hypochondriac giraffe in "Madagascar"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:16 PM on 10/19/2007

Anderson recoils in horror, "But, I thought you said 'feather boa'...!!!"

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:11 PM on 10/19/2007
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hahahahaha

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:10 PM on 10/19/2007
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"Anderson was acting like the first person who gets killed in a horror movie."

That's a funny line. I much pefer nature as a general concept than as a reality, myself. I grew up in Maine where blackflies would occassionally carry off one of the smaller children.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:37 PM on 10/19/2007
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Picture caption: Anderson Cooper, Dick Cheney, and some other guy.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:32 PM on 10/19/2007

You guys are warped....what a sad thread.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:59 PM on 10/19/2007
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Agreed.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:17 PM on 10/19/2007

He's had bigger things than that in his mouth.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:14 PM on 10/19/2007

Is that a one-eyed snake they're holdin'?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:52 PM on 10/19/2007

New idea for SNL "Gays in Jungle" because "Gays in Space" have crash landed in the Amazon in search for ultimate lube.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:45 PM on 10/19/2007
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What happens in the jungle stays in the jungle eh Coop?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:21 PM on 10/19/2007
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Jeff's married...to a woman, no less.

But you know he couldn't resist a taste of the Coop.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:55 AM on 10/19/2007

Better disinfect that snake.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:02 AM on 10/19/2007
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