EXCLUSIVE: CNN PREPARES TO DUMP ANDY COHEN, TOMMY LEE JONES’ FAMILY SHATTERED BY TRAGEDY, AND A ‘DEFEATED’ KIM KARDASHIAN CALLS 2025 HER WORST EVER
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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🗓️ 2 January 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
CNN insiders say “enough is enough” as the network quietly moves toward cutting ties with longtime New Year’s Eve host Andy Cohen, while Hollywood reels from the shocking death of Tommy Lee Jones’ daughter, Victoria Kafka Jones, found dead at 34 in a San Francisco hotel room. Meanwhile, Kim Kardashian is said to feel “defeated” and emotionally drained after what she calls the hardest year of her life, with sources claiming love now feels “impossible” as she desperately tries to leave 2025 behind.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:17.4 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:19.5 | Welcome to the naughty but nice. I'm your host, Rob Schueter, having so much fun over this first new week of the New Year happy. 2026. It's just us today. Corey is traveling, having a vacation. Good for you, Corey. So let's jump into our show. What time is it, my friends? It is. Tea time, big exclusive at the top of the show. You're not |
| 0:38.6 | going to hear anywhere else. So CNN is ready to move on from Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper and their big |
| 0:45.8 | New Year's Eve celebration. Insiders say, enough is enough after years of complaints. Andy Cohen, he rang |
| 0:53.3 | in the new year on CNN, but finally, his days |
| 0:57.0 | might be numbered there, as insiders tell me, the network is quietly preparing to move on next year. |
| 1:04.3 | Multiple sources inside CNN's Hudson Yards here, right down the street from me, about 10 blocks away from me on 10th Avenue |
| 1:12.2 | in Manhattan. Staffers are increasingly uncomfortable with Andy's on-air antics. And several have even |
| 1:20.5 | vile to complain about how messy the behavior is and it doesn't really fit into this news |
| 1:26.8 | organisation. Let me give you some quotes here. |
| 1:29.6 | One insider tells me, this is CNN. It's not Bravo. And what works on reality TV doesn't really work for a news network trying to protect its credibility. |
| 1:40.7 | Let me explain. So I know a ton of people that work at CNN and they are real journalists. They work really, really hard on getting you the news. They don't want to be as political as Andy is. He attacked the mayor on New Year's Eve. It was an alcohol-fueled rant targeting the outgoing mayor. And he might have some valid, valid points. |
| 2:03.0 | It's just that was not the place, the time or the network to do it. |
| 2:07.7 | And so Anderson Cooper, he was mortified. |
| 2:09.8 | He tried to raid him in, but Andy did not stop. |
| 2:13.2 | And so everything that has made Andy successful at Bravo doesn't fit in CNN. And the timing, it could not be worse. |
| 2:22.6 | CNN is going through a massive upheaval as the parent company Warner Brothers Discovery is exploring strategic options and to figure out a way to restructure, maybe make the network independent. |
| 2:38.0 | It looks like they are going to try and sell Warner Brothers. |
| 2:41.6 | Netflix has offered a ton of money. |
| 2:43.4 | Paramount is trying to buy them too and they don't want CNN. |
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