From CNN's prime-time journalists Anderson Cooper and Don Lemon not being able to handle their liquor to NBC's omission of the countdown clock and special co-host Chrissy Teigen getting bopped in the face, some of the nation's most-watched New Year's Eve broadcasts were filled with seemingly unexpected flubs.
Teigen's choice to highlight "vaginal steaming" during the broadcast especially had viewers scratching their collective heads.
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Fox News didn't take much time to criticize the move, as it took to headlines early Tuesday morning cosigning with viewers who called the entire broadcast a "disaster" and "trainwreck."
According to the network, NBC failed to show the traditional countdown for the new year and was "mocked" for the cutaway.
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And of course, the aforementioned face bop when comedian Leslie Jones, who was also co-hosting, accidentally crashed her umbrella into the face of Teigen when the pair attempted to embrace after the stroke of midnight.
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Yikes.
Just across the airwaves, CNN had its share of silliness when Anderson Cooper downed a tequila shot with co-host Andy Cohen.
"It's like burning your lungs," Cooper exclaimed with a raspy voice.
"Uh, burning YOUR lungs," Cohen retorted while pointing at Cooper. "It feels good to me."
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Meanwhile, Don Lemon, boasted that CNN's New Year's Eve coverage was the "gayest New Years show on air."
Cooper, Cohen and Lemon have all come out as gay men.
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Lemon also sipped libations with co-host Brooke Baldwin as brass marching bands paraded down the streets of New Orleans.
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Seems like some folks who were angry may have forgotten that the evening was supposed to be about having fun.
Others reminded them.
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Samson X Horne is a Tribune-Review staff writer.
