{"id":361188,"date":"2026-09-30T21:52:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361188\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:52:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:52:22","slug":"andy-cohen-called-cheap-by-guest-for-what-he-pays-his-babysitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361188\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen called ‘cheap’ by guest for what he pays his babysitter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Talk show host Andy Cohen pays his babysitter<\/a> $30 an hour. Is it enough?<\/p>\n

Childcare site Urban Sitter<\/a> reports that the average<\/a> hourly rate in New York City is $25.64 for two children.<\/p>\n

Cohen shared what he pays to have his young son and daughter looked after when he\u2019s away during his \u201cAndy Cohen Live\u201d radio show on Monday, according to Us Weekly.<\/p>\n

Though the 58-year-old TV personality\u2019s spending appears to be a little better than average, that day\u2019s guest, real estate expert Jeff Lewis, suggested he could be paying more.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat sounds cheap to me \u2014 especially from someone with your money,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n

\"AndyAndy Cohen hosts SiriusXM’s “Andy Cohen Live” at SiriusXM Studios on July 16, 2026, in New York City. (Photo by Cindy Ord\/Getty Images for SiriusXM)<\/p>\n

Money site Celebrity Net Worth reports that Cohen earns $10 million annually<\/a> and is worth $50 million. In addition to his radio show, he hosts Bravo\u2019s \u201cWatch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\u201d and is executive producer of the ubiquitous \u201cThe Real Housewives\u201d franchise.<\/p>\n

Lewis, 56, revealed that he pays his nanny $37 an hour to watch his 9-year-old daughter. He told Cohen that paying a babysitter $50 an hour to watch two children for a couple hours seems appropriate.<\/p>\n

Cohen\u2019s son, Benjamin Allen Cohen, was born via surrogate on Feb. 4, 2019, according to People. The talk show host\u2019s daughter, Lucy Eve Cohen, was reportedly born on April 29, 2022. His family has homes<\/a> in New York City and the Hamptons, according to Bravo.<\/p>\n

In a 2018 episode of \u201cWatch What Happens Live,\u201d he confessed<\/a>, \u201cI just never thought it would be possible as a gay man to grow up and have a family.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Talk show host Andy Cohen pays his babysitter $30 an hour. Is it enough? Childcare site Urban Sitter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[43861,11030,134195,9865,98,100,99,134197,134196,9,24,63,21038,92825],"class_list":["post-361188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-43861","tag-andy-cohen","tag-babysitter","tag-bravo","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-gay-dad","tag-gay-parent","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-pay","tag-talk-show-host"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}