Surprise!\u00a0Andy Cohen is going to be a dad \u2014 and in just six weeks time.<\/p>\n
On Thursday\u2019s episode of Bravo\u2019s Watch What Happens Live<\/em>, Cohen, 50, revealed he\u2019s expecting his first child via surrogate in front of OG Real Housewives<\/em> Vicki Gunvalson, Ramona Singer, NeNe Leakes, Kyle Richards and Teresa Giudice.<\/p>\n Closing out the final live broadcast of 2018 Cohen said, \u201cI am full of so much gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTonight I want to share a little personal news of my own,\u201d Cohen continued. \u201cTo the viewers at home, I call you my friends at home because we are friends. You have supported me through almost 10 years of live\u2026 This has been an incredible joyous journey with you all. I am grateful to be able to live my dream every day and grateful to you for coming along for the ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cAnd throughout it, I\u2019ve always tried to be as transparent as possible about my life \u2014 I overshare and expect everyone to do the same.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cTonight, I want you to be the first to know that after many years of careful deliberation, a fair amount of prayers and the benefit of science \u2014 if all goes according to plan in about six weeks time I\u2019m going to become a father,\u201d Cohen revealed emotionally.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n Want all the latest pregnancy and birth announcements, plus celebrity mom blogs?\u00a0Click here to get those and more in the PEOPLE Parents newsletter.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cThanks to a wonderful surrogate who is carrying my future.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFamily means everything to me and having one of my own is something that I have wanted in my heart for my entire life.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThough it\u2019s taken me longer than most to get there, I cannot wait for what I envision will be the most rewarding chapter yet,\u201d Cohen continued.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n Cohen did not reveal the sex of the child or whether or not he plans to raise the child as a single parent. He previously split with his partner Clifton Dassuncao.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n In March, Cohen opened up about his dating life saying he\u2019s single and looking for a guy who has never seen The Real Housewives<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n<\/p>\n RELATED:\u00a0Andy Cohen Tells Jeff Lewis That\u00a0Flipping Out<\/em>\u2018s Last Episode \u2018Felt Like a Series Finale to Me\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \u201cYes, I am single again,\u201d Cohen told\u00a0Entertainment Tonight\u00a0from the\u00a0set of\u00a0Love Connection.<\/em><\/p>\n He said he wants \u201csomeone who\u2019s very independent, someone who has their own thing going on. Maybe someone who\u2019s never seen\u00a0The Real Housewives.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0Adding he\u2019d want a Jewish version of John F. Kennedy, Jr. which he joking dubbed, \u201cJew-FK, Jr.\u201d<\/p>\n This article originally appeared on <\/i>People. For more stories like this, visit\u00a0<\/i>people.com<\/i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Surprise!\u00a0Andy Cohen is going to be a dad \u2014 and in just six weeks time. On Thursday\u2019s episode of Bravo\u2019s Watch What Happens Live, Cohen, 50, revealed he\u2019s expecting his first child via surrogate in front of OG Real Housewives Vicki Gunvalson, Ramona Singer, NeNe Leakes, Kyle Richards and Teresa Giudice. Closing out the final…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}