Anderson Cooper Gets Bugged Out In Brazil

E! Online's Planet Gossip Blog:

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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Comments

[Ginzaman]

08:22 PM on 10/20/2007

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

[ErnestineBass]

11:32 PM on 10/21/2007

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?".

[InofTouch]

10:44 PM on 10/19/2007

pathetic

[kfdan]

04:55 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.

[criscokid]

05:49 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.

[NoblesseOblige]

04:11 PM on 10/19/2007

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

[kellygrrrl]

08:10 PM on 10/19/2007

hahahahaha

[MikeDu]

02:37 PM on 10/19/2007

“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.

[Moshe]

02:32 PM on 10/19/2007

Picture caption: Anderson Cooper, Dick Cheney, and some other guy.

[WilliamWallace]

01:59 PM on 10/19/2007

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

[Moshe]

03:17 PM on 10/19/2007

Agreed.

[Dehrenstein]

01:14 PM on 10/19/2007

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

[criscokid]

12:52 PM on 10/19/2007

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

[vejzagic]

12:45 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.

[mrcontinental]

12:21 PM on 10/19/2007

What happens in the jungle stays in the jungle eh Coop?

[situationcritical]

11:55 AM on 10/19/2007

Jeff's married...­to a woman, no less.

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

[maxfusion]

11:02 AM on 10/19/2007

Better disinfect that snake.

[PoHo]

09:45 AM on 10/19/2007

Anderson and Jeff make a cute couple don't you think. Anderson you protest too much......­..Oh! don't make me go into that dark jungle with that cute man, I'm so scared, he might have to save himself from me! Oh please! Oh please!...­.... is it dark yet! huh, is it, is it......

[CJGibson]

11:31 AM on 10/19/2007

The picture deserves some kind of comment about a "python" too.

Quite the pose, Anderson.

[TJS]

09:30 AM on 10/19/2007

Gee, Jeff. Maybe I shoud feed the snake a gerbil?