Andy Cohen hit back at Madonna by calling him a “troublemaker queen” at a recent concert in New York.
His longtime host Watch What Happens Live! uploaded to Instagram yesterday (December 18) to post about the event with a carousel of two videos. The first documents the moment the 65-year-old pop icon playfully called out Cohen while performing the New York date of her “Celebration” retrospective tour at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on Saturday night (December 16).
“Did I say how lucky I am, Andy?” she said aggressively. “If you say one more bad thing about me on your show, you'll… you'll be in so much trouble, you little troublemaker queen.” The clip, aimed at live streaming video at the concert, reveals Cohen in the front row, who appears to be saying “I love you”.
The second clip is a compilation of the times Cohen awarded the pop star his track “Mazel of The Day” on his talk show. On one occasion, Cohen praised her speedy recovery during her performance at the 2015 BRIT Awards, where she fell on stage due to a costume mishap before continuing unharmed.
“How can I not give it to Madonna for the way she composed herself after a wave at the BRIT Awards,” he said. “People may have tuned in to see a show, but what they got was a lesson in how to be a professional.”
Captioning the post, Cohen continued to sing her praises, adding the hashtag “troublemakingqueen” and writing, “I'm a huge Madonna fan, so it's a thrill and an honor to be called a 'troublemaking queen' by the Queen of Troublemaking. . BOW! Also – check out the new tour. It blew me away!! What a great night. I can't wait to come back.”
Madonna's 'Celebration' tour kicked off in mid-October with four dates at London's O2 Arena, marking the first dates of the tour since she contracted a “serious bacterial infection” that left her in intensive care and derailed the North American leg of the world tour . which would start in July.
NME awarded five stars to the tour's opening O2 Arena date, with Nick Levine praising the show's production value and comprehensive look back at the Queen of Pop's back catalogue, despite some technical difficulties.
“The whole thing is a compelling reminder that Madonna is not just a pop star, but a cultural force who truly changed the world by defying what society expects of women in public,” Levine wrote. “This is something worth celebrating in the dazzling, dynamic and sometimes slightly heartbreaking way he presents it here. Really, you wouldn't have it any other way.”