Andy Cohen revealed he pays his babysitter $30 an hour to watch his two kids \u2014 a rate his longtime friend Jeff Lewis called \u201ccheap.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair discussed Cohen\u2019s childcare costs on Monday\u2019s episode of \u201cAndy Cohen Live,\u201d where Lewis weighed in after learning what his pal\u2019s 23-year-old babysitter makes.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, hmm. That sounds cheap to me, especially from someone with your money,\u201d the \u201cStill Flipping Out\u201d star, 56, said, according to the Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n Andy Cohen (pictured above during SiriusXM\u2019s \u201cFront Row\u201d) revealed that he pays his babysitter $30 an hour to watch his two kids. Getty Images for SiriusXM<\/p>\n Cohen\u2019s longtime pal Jeff Lewis (seen above leaving Bravo Studios in 2023) called the rate \u201ccheap.\u201d GC Images<\/p>\n Lewis then asked, \u201cShe was there for two hours and you gave her 60 bucks? Did that even cover the cab?\u201d<\/p>\n Cohen, 58, corrected him, explaining that the babysitter was actually there for two hours and 15 minutes and received $70.<\/p>\n \u201cI probably would\u2019ve given her 100 for two hours, two kids,\u201d Lewis said.<\/p>\n Lewis (pictured above at the SiriusXM studios on Sept. 28) asked Cohen whether what he paid his babysitter was even enough to cover the cost of a cab. Getty Images<\/p>\n Cohen (seen above with Lewis at Caesars Forum last year) explained that his babysitter actually got $70 for her time, with Lewis saying he probably would have given her $100. Trae Patton\/Bravo via Getty Images<\/p>\n The \u201cFlipping Out\u201d alum, meanwhile, revealed that his babysitter earns $37 an hour to watch his 9-year-old daughter, Monroe<\/a>, whom he shares with his ex, Gage Edward.<\/p>\n Cohen welcomed his son, Benjamin \u201cBen\u201d Allen<\/a>, 7, via a surrogate in 2019, before expanding his family with daughter Lucy Eve<\/a>, 4, in 2022.<\/p>\n He later revealed that Lucy was one of the first babies born via gestational surrogacy<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n Lewis (pictured above with his ex, Gage Edward, and their daughter, Monroe, in 2021) revealed that his own babysitter earns $37 an hour. jljefflewis\/Instagram<\/p>\n Cohen welcomed his son, Benjamin, and his daughter, Lucy, via surrogates in 2019 and 2022, respectively. bravoandy\/Instagram<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n The \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d host got emotional during an episode of his SiriusXM show \u201cRadio Andy\u201d last year while recalling a sweet conversation he had with Ben<\/a> after they returned from a trip to Disney World.<\/p>\n The father-son pair were at a playground when Ben noticed an older kid who appeared to be around 13.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd I go, \u2018That\u2019s going to be you. \u2026 One day you\u2019re going to be like, \u2018Dude, I don\u2019t want to hang out with you,’\u201d Cohen recalled. \u201cAnd he goes, \u2018No, I\u2019m not going to do that.’\u201d<\/p>\n Ben then told his dad, \u201cYou know, Daddy, when I\u2019m 60, \u2026 I want to take a pill so I can come back and be little like this so I can just be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n Cohen (seen above with Ben) got emotional during an episode of \u201cRadio Andy\u201d last year while recalling a sweet conversation he had with his son at a playground. bravoandy\/Instagram<\/p>\n More recently, Cohen (pictured above with Lucy) opened up about how he approached introducing his children to his boyfriend, Kevin Sobieski. bravoandy\/Instagram<\/p>\n More recently, Cohen opened up about his relationship<\/a> with boyfriend Kevin Sobieski<\/a> and how he has approached introducing him to his children.<\/p>\n \u201cThis man is kind and strong and smart, and he is an adult, and he loves my children and they love him,\u201d the Bravo honcho said on \u201cRadio Andy\u201d in June.<\/p>\n \u201cI love him, and we have been so slow and deliberate and methodical about getting to know each other and introducing him to the kids and just entering him into the equation of my family so slowly.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Cohen revealed he pays his babysitter $30 an hour to watch his two kids \u2014 a rate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":864972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[8205,281449,236,7568,10586,7570,91,88,43324,13952],"class_list":["post-864971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-andy-cohen","tag-babysitting","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-children","tag-celebrity-dads","tag-celebrity-friendships","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-jeff-lewis","tag-parents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}