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Andy Cohen has to watch what happens when he’s out with John Mayer.
The Watch What Happens Live host revealed that while he and the “Your Body is a Wonderland” singer do not have a romantic relationship of any kind, he did recently find himself getting quite close to John.
“We were at The Sunset Tower last week,” Andy recalled on the Oct. 29 episode of Call Her Daddy, “and I was getting so physical with him by the end that he was like, ‘Andy.’”
But as the 57-year-old noted, there wasn’t anything sexy about it: “I was kinda using his body to tell a story about a guy.”
However, Andy did admit that he had possibly had too much to drink, adding that he and John immediately found humor in the situation, saying, “We were in a puddle of laughter.”
As the Bravo star—who is dad to son Benjamin, 6, and daughter Lucy, 3,—explained, the closeness came about because he and John, 48, “always sit on the same side of the booth” when they go out to dinner.
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“I do, as the night goes on, find myself sinking into him,” he shared, “because he’ll have his arm around me.”
In addition to having those physical moments in their relationship, the way Andy and John feel about each other goes far beyond that.
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“We love each other deeply,” Andy said. “We actually do.”
But the reality TV producer was sure to confirm that he’s not in love with the Grammy winner—though he wouldn’t be opposed to ending up with someone like him.
“If I could find a gay guy that was him, it would be magic,” Andy confessed. “But you know what? I am so grateful for the love that we have.”
As for what else Andy is looking for in a man? As he explained on the podcast, there’s not one specific trait he’s looking for.
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“I’m like the U.N.,” he joked. “It’s all over the map. I mean, come one, come all. It’s really about a vibe.”
The Emmy winner continued, “I like strong, independent, smart, has their own thing going, handsome. It’s so funny, the few people that I’ve hooked up with on Raya that I’ve actually hooked up in person with have mainly not watched Watch What Happens Live and don’t watch The Housewives. They’re like, ‘No, I’m an architect and I do this, or I’m a finance guy.'”
While John and Andy focus on their friendship, keep reading for a look back at who John has dated IRL.
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Their relationship was brief, but Mayer was rumored to have been inspired to write one of his biggest hits, “Your Body Is a Wonderland,” the second single off his debut album, Room for Squares.
The record came out in 2001 and Hewitt dated Mayer in 2002, so the logic was faulty all along. But the association persisted.
“My body is far from a wonderland,” Hewitt protested to EW.com in 2007. “My body is more like a pawnshop. There’s a lot of interesting things put together, and if you look closely you’d probably be excited, but at first glance, not so much.”
However, settling in for an interview on the podcast Inside of You With Michael Rosenbaum, the 9-1-1 star said that it still wasn’t true (as far as she knew) but she was, indeed, flattered that people thought it was: “That’s a real compliment.”
For his part, Mayer said on VH1 Storytellers that he wrote the song about his first girlfriend from when he was about 14, and he originally called it “Strawberry Wonderland.”
Jessica Simpson
After her marriage to Nick Lachey ended, Simpson decided to have a little fun. And she left a mark—on Mayer and the zeitgeist. In 2010, about three years after they split up, Mayer infamously told Playboy, “Yeah, that girl is like crack cocaine to me. Sexually it was crazy. That’s all I’ll say. It was like napalm, sexual napalm.”
Well, that was rude. Simpson agreed, and it was indeed a loose-lipped moment Mayer would come to regret. “It’s more embarrassing [than anything else], ’cause I’ll walk into a restaurant or something and I’ll notice more men are looking at me,” Simpson, pressed for her reaction, said on The View in 2010. “And he’ll never have this napalm again.”
Meanwhile, Mayer said on Watch What Happens Live! in April 2020 that, yes, he was aware Simpson had released a memoir and, quoting, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, “I don’t have to watch it, Dottie. I lived it.”
Cameron Diaz
Moving on from Simpson in 2007, Mayer was briefly linked to the Charlie’s Angels star—who lived it up during her bachelorette days before finding her to-have-and-to-hold person in Benji Madden.
She had just broken up with Justin Timberlake earlier that year, so…why not get “super flirty” with Mayer in NYC?
Minka Kelly
The Friday Night Lights star remained friends with the singer after seemingly venturing into more-than territory in late 2007, neither wanting to make a big deal about it.
Jennifer Aniston
Mayer dated the Friends star between 2008 and 2009, more or less off and on from one year’s Oscars party to another. But following their initial split that first summer, he informed the world of what happened by ranting to a few paparazzi outside his New York gym, letting it be known that he was “a man who ended a relationship.”
Aniston laughed off her ex’s antics, telling Vogue, “He had to put that out there that he broke up with me. And especially because it’s me. It’s not just some girl he’s dating. I get it. We’re human. But I feel seriously protective of him and us. Trust me, you’ll never see that happen again from that man. And it doesn’t take away from the fact that he is a wonderful guy. We care about each other. It’s funny when you hit a place in a relationship and you both realize, We maybe need to do something else, but you still really, really love each other. It’s painful. There was no malicious intent. I deeply, deeply care about him; we talk, we adore one another. And that’s where it is.”
They reconciled, but all was done by March 2009. “I’ll always be sorry that it didn’t last,” Mayer told Playboy in that interview the following year. “In some ways I wish I could be with her. But I can’t change the fact that I need to be 32.”
Taylor Swift
He fatefully tweeted he was working on a song and wanted to sing it with the 19-year-old Fearless artist. “Waking up to this song idea that won’t leave my head. 3 days straight now. That means it’s good enough to finish,” he wrote in March 2009. “It’s called ‘Half of My Heart’ and I want to sing it with Taylor Swift. She would make a killer Stevie Nicks in contrast to my Tom Petty of a song.”
So, no expectations there at all. But they did meet up to record “Half of My Heart” for his 2009 album Battle Studies, which came out that November, and performed live together several times.
It was Swift who made sure that people kinda-sorta knew what was what—that he was a man who ended a relationship.
Mayer told Rolling Stone in 2012 that he was pretty devastated by the 2010 song “Dear John,” which called out a certain fellow’s “dark twisted games.” He insisted that he “didn’t deserve it. I’m pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.”(Swift has never explicitly said that the tune is about Mayer, but before the song came out she said in an interview that “little hints” would assure that it would be clear who the guy was.)
Moreover, he continued, “I never got an e-mail. I never got a phone call. I was really caught off-guard, and it really humiliated me at a time when I’d already been dressed down. I mean, how would you feel if, at the lowest you’ve ever been, someone kicked you even lower?”
Katy Perry
But things would soon start looking up!
“I actually am dating my crush,” Perry told W in 2013 of being with Mayer, who she started seeing in 2012 following her divorce from Russell Brand. “I had a crush on him for a long time.”
That was after they had already broken up once, however, and their off-and-on love affair ultimately settled into the off position for good in 2015.
But they were the real deal, and while Perry moved on and found happiness (albeit hot and cold) with Orlando Bloom until their split in 2025, Mayer took a break from love and found himself stewing a bit.
“Who else would I be thinking about?” he told the New York Times in 2017 when asked about speculation that “Still Feel Like Your Man” was about Perry. “And by the way, it’s a testament to the fact that I have not dated a lot of people in the last five, six years. That was my only relationship. So it’s like, give me this, people.”
Halsey
After folks wondered whether the “Bad at Love” singer and Mayer were trying to tell them something with their public flirting on social media in 2018, Halsey—at the time, recently split from G-Eazy for the second time—reminded people that not every spark meant a fire was burning.
“I just had a ground breaking idea,” they tweeted when the speculation went into overdrive. “What if…we let female artists…have friends…without assuming that they are sleeping together? I know I know. It’s like, completely ambitious but like, imagine if we like, tried?”
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