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.

With Anderson Cooper's daytime talk show ending soon, the CNN star has some intriguing possible gigs including a show with pal Kathy Griffin and becoming host of NBC's The Today Show.

Deadline is reporting that Cooper and Griffin, who have co-hosted CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage for at least six years, filmed a pilot this week at CNN studios in New York.

Details are sketchy but it was filmed in front of a live audience that included new CNN boss Jeff Zucker.

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.

Anderson Cooper got more than he bargained for when he went to Portugal to shoot a story for 60 Minutes: temporary blindness.

The newsman told the audience of his daytime talk show Anderson Live Tuesday (4 December) about the incident that occurred after he spent two hours on the water in a coastal area under overcast skies working on the story.

'I wake up in the middle of the night and it feels like my eyes are on fire - my eyeballs,' Cooper said.

He thinks maybe he has sand in his eyes and douses them with water.

It does not help.

Did you ever think you’d see the day when two openly gay men would be taking bites out of a giant gummy python snake on US broadcast television?

It happened this week on the daytime talk show Anderson Live! when host Anderson Cooper’s pal Andy Cohen guest hosted and the two opened a box that contained what is known as ‘The Party Python.’

'The Party Python? That's a foreign film,' Cooper joked after removing the 26-pound snake out of a box.

It can feed up to 300 people, costs $150 and if you eat the whole thing, you’ve ingested 136,000 calories.

A US TV show featuring a man who claims anti-baldness drugs made him transgender has been slammed for 'sensationalizing' an already marginalized group of people.

The talk show hosted by gay news anchor Anderson Cooper touts the interview with trans woman Mandi as an exclusive.

In a publicity statement for the segment, due to be aired on Anderson Live tonight (13 September), the program makers say Mandi's ex-wife will also speak about how the gender identity 'transformation' has affected their son.

The boyfriend of gay news anchor Anderson Cooper has been spotted kissing another man.

Photographs clearly show Ben Maisani, who is rumored to be engaged to the newly out CNN reporter, smooching a hunky mystery man in a New York park, reported The Daily Mail.

CNN's Anderson Cooper has simply gotten back to work and not talked about his sexuality since acknowledging publicly for the first time that he is gay.

But others have talked about the disclosure including Cooper's friend, Lance Bass, whose coming out in 2006 landed him on the cover of People magazine.

Anderson Cooper, after being silent about his sexuality for so long, picked the perfect week to acknowledge publicly that he is gay.

On a typical week, he is live on the air on CNN at least one hour a night with Anderson Cooper 360 and would have been a bigger story than anything else he would have covered.

Out.com unveiled its annual Power 50 list of LGBT individuals on Thursday (26 April) and placed Apple CEO Tom Cook at the very top of it.

Cook was followed on the list by talk show host and comedienne Ellen DeGeneres. Rounding out the top five are venture capitalist and hedge find manager Peter Thiel, Glee creator and executive producer Ryan Murphy and MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

Sometimes, Anderson Cooper just gets a bad case of the giggles - on national television.

The latest gigglefest occurred this week on his CNN show Anderson Cooper 360 during the nightly 'RidicuList' segment. He was talking about Dyngus Day, a Polish-American celebration marking the end of Lent.

One of the traditions is girls striking boys with a pussy willow branch and that is what got Cooper giggling. At first just a little bit as he tried to maintain his composure.

But it was soon clear that he was going to completely lose it.