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 has no regrets for kissing Anderson Cooper's crotch and trying to 'go down' on the newsman during their annual stint co-hosting CNN's New Year's Eve broadcast from Times Square.

'If you think this is the part where I'm going to apologize for trying to go down on Anderson Cooper you are sorely mistaken,' the comic told David Letterman during an appearance on his late-night talk show Wednesday (2 January).

'I tried ladies and gays, I tried - for you!' she added.

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 has one of his easiest television gigs all year when he co-hosts CNN's New Year's Eve coverage with Kathy Griffin from Times Square in New York.

All he has to do is giggle.

The cable network has paired Cooper up with comedienne Griffin for the sixth consecutive year and the pair chatted about their plans for the evening on Cooper's nightly CNN show on Thursday (27 December).

'We are gonna break it down this year,' Griffin warned Cooper. 'This year the mask is coming off - the secrets that you've been keeping.'

If you're looking for somewhere a little more exciting to spend New Year's Eve than your local boozer, then take a look at the celebrations the rest of the world has to offer.

There are concerts, fireworks and parties going on all over the world, each one with its own unique and exciting selling points.

Sam Champion, weather anchor of ABC's Good Morning America, officially married Rubem Robierb in New York City last Friday (21 December) but that was only the first step in the wedding march for the couple.

They have headed down to Miami, Florida, where they will have a New Year's Eve ceremony with a more festive, party atmosphere.

Miami is Robierb's hometown and it was at a New Year's Eve party that the couple first met.

The ceremony will be conducted by MSNBC anchor Thomas Roberts, a fellow newlywed.