If Anderson Cooper had to do it all over again, his foray into daytime talk shows would have been more Live With Kelly and Michael from the start than a pale imitation of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

Cooper's show, Anderson Live! was canceled last fall during the early weeks of its second season. But since that time, it has found its groove with a live format and a rotating array of guest co-hosts including Andy Cohen, Kathy Griffin and Kristin Chenoweth.

Anderson Cooper has not yet commented on reports that NBC News has approached him about taking over Matt Lauer's job as host of The Today Show.

But his CNN colleague Howard Kurtz, host of the show Reliable Sources, reported on Sunday (31 March) that Cooper is not interested in the gig.

Kurtz said Cooper, who hosts a nightly show Anderson Cooper 360 on CNN, prefers to stay with the cable network.

Pop star Madonna presented CNN’s anchorman Anderson Cooper with a US gay media watchdog's top award in recognition of his standing and accomplishment as an openly gay journalist.

Presenting the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) watchdog’s award to Cooper, Madonna up dressed yesterday (16 March) as a Boy Scout Of America, complete with a brimmed hat and sporting a blonde locks hairdo.

She called upon the organization to ‘change their stupid rules’ and end the ban on gay youth.

Since coming out publicly last summer, Anderson Live! has featured a far looser and far gayer host in Anderson Cooper.

The daytime talk show host's sexuality was off-limits during the show's first season but now not anymore.

On Thursday (7 March), Cooper shared the horror of going to a strip club in Tampa, Florida, with a group of straight male friends more than 20 years ago.

'I had to go to one once for a bachelor party when I was in college and I literally was like talking to the ladies about their shoes,' he told guest co-host Lisa Rinna.

CNN newsman and daytime talk show host Anderson Cooper waited until last summer to publicly confirm that he is gay after years of remaining mum on the topic.

And now that he's done it, to no detriment to his career, he wonders why other famous folks who he knows don't do the same.

Jacob Rudolph, the New Jersey teen came out publicly to more than 300 classmates earlier this month, has a fan in Star Trek icon George Takei.

Rudolph appeared on Anderson Live, the syndicated daytime show hosted by Anderson Cooper, was on the show talking about his experience and mentioned that Takei was a real model from him.

'Having grown up in the 50s as a Japanese gay man and then coming out and having such a wonderful success and becoming such an advocate, he's an incredible person,' Rudolph told Cooper and guest co-host Deborah Norville.

After the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York City, CNN's guest broadcaster Kathy Griffin got her knees and attempted to kiss Anderson Cooper's crotch.

He giggled and tried to stop her and get her back on her feet but Griffin, never one to back away from a challenge persisted.

One group that isn't laughing about Griffin's antics is the Parents Television Council which said Wednesday that Griffin 'has shown increasing contempt for the audience.'

Kathy Griffin didn't drop an f-bomb during CNN's live New Year's coverage. She also didn't try and take her clothes off and she didn't scream down to a heckler that she wasn't trying to 'knock dicks out of your mouth.'

No, that was all in past years.

This year, the sixth year she teamed with Anderson Cooper for the telecast, the red-headed comic merely tried to simulate giving oral sex to Cooper.

'Did you drop something,' Cooper said to Griffin as she was down on her knees.

Anderson Cooper expressed relief Tuesday (18 December) over the release of NBC's chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel who had been kidnapped while reporting in Syria.

Cooper, who himself reported from many dangerous spots over the years for CNN, admitted on his syndicated talk show Tuesday that being abducted is 'something you think about all the time, without a doubt.'

CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who came out publicly as a gay man last summer, says he didn't do so earlier in his career out of concern for his personal safety.

'I wanted a certain amount of privacy in my public life,' Cooper said on ABC's The View this week. 'Also I traveled to a lot of very dangerous areas. I started as a war correspondent traveling by myself and I didn't want to do anything that would add danger.'

Gay news anchor Anderson Cooper has confessed he wears the same pair of jeans every day and has only washed them twice in the last six months.

The CNN journalist revealed opened up about his curious fashion, and possibly hygiene, habits to What Not To Wear host Stacy London on his show Anderson Live last Thursday (6 December).

'In my real life, I wear a T-shirt, gray or white, and the same pair of jeans,' the 45-year-old said.

'Literally, the same pair of jeans every day.'

Cooper added that he has only washed them twice in six months.

Anderson Cooper has been proving in recent days that he is nobody's punching bag on Twitter.

The CNN anchor and daytime talk show host has been reporting on the bloody conflict between Isreal and Hamas in the Gaza Strip and even had to duck when there were blasts nearby.

But that doesn't mean he's been too distracted to craft witheringly sarcastic responses to some of the unflattering things that are being written about him on Twitter.