Is the beef squashed? Andy Cohen and Ryan Seacrest finally address their infamous NYE feud in TV sit-down

Squash! That! Beef! Andy Cohen had to sort out his years-long feud with Ryan Seacrest on Tuesday night’s episode of “Watch What Happens Live.”The tension between the pair began on New Year’s Eve 2021, when Cohen, who was anchoring live from Times Square for CNN, shaded Seacrest’s rival NYE broadcast on ABC.The following year, Seacrest, 49, claimed that Cohen, 56, “ignored” him during the New Year’s Eve broadcast.“I don’t even remember what the feud was about,” Cohen, 56, admitted to Seacrest on his late-night Bravo talk show this week.“I don’t either,” said Seacrest, who appeared on the show alongside his “Wheel of Fortune” co-host Vanna White.“But we did see each other and we did wave,” Cohen clarified.Seacrest agreed with the “Real Housewives” franchise producer’s explanation of their drama.“We did do all of that,” he noted.“I just said are you gonna be there this year.

We will be.We will wave.

We can’t get to each other or we’d hug.”“But no,” Seacrest added, “everything’s been good.”Cohen declared that he thinks “the beef is squashed.”“The beef has been squashed,” Seacrest agreed.On NYE 2021, Cohen went off on Seacrest while he was co-hosting “New Year’s Eve Live” on CNN with his BFF Anderson Cooper.“Ryan Seacrest’s group of losers that are performing behind us,” he said at the time, referencing “Dick Clark’s Rockin’ New Year’s Eve With Ryan Seacrest.”He continued, “I mean, with all due [respect], if you’ve been watching ABC tonight, you’ve seen nothing.I’m sorry.”Cohen later apologized to Seacrest via a January 2022 episode of his radio show on SiriusXM, “Andy Cohen Live,” claiming that the comments were taken out of context.“The only thing that I regret saying, the only thing is that I slammed the ABC broadcast, and I really like Ryan Seacrest and he’s a great guy,” he clarified at the time.“And I really regret saying that, and I was jus...