Andy Cohen addresses John Mayer dating rumors a year after saying they’re ‘in love’

They’re slow dancing in a burning room. 

Andy Cohen, 55, has addressed the rumors that he’s relationship John Mayer, 46. 

“Let them speculate!” the Bravo puppetmaster advised the Hollywood Reporter in an job interview released on Wednesday. 

“I honestly like John Mayer, and he enjoys me,” Cohen ongoing.

“But due to the fact we’re so affectionate towards each and every other, people never know what box to put that in. They suppose we’re sleeping with every single other, which we are most absolutely not.”

Cohen and the “Your Overall body is Wonderland” crooner have been been buddies for around a ten years, immediately after assembly by means of a close friend and discovering their mutual appreciate for the Grateful Lifeless.

The “Watch What Transpires Live” host even confessed that the two are “in really like with every other,” even nevertheless their connection is strictly platonic.

Throughout an physical appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” in June 2023, host Howard Stern requested Cohen if he was in adore with Mayer. 

“I am in like with John Mayer,” Cohen stated. “We are in love with each individual other.”

He later swore on his young children Benjamin Allen, 4, and Lucy Eve, 19 months, that he and Mayer, who is straight, have hardly ever had a sexual partnership.

Cohen, who is homosexual, has usually confronted rumors that he’s involved with Mayer. 

In 2018, Cohen denied the pair were being courting just after Mayer serenaded him with an acoustic variation of Diana Ross‘ “It’s My Residence.”

Cohen thanked him with a hug and a kiss on the lips. 

“I’ve finished practically nothing but study that music in the past 48 several hours,” Mayer reported. “I have eaten, breathed, and slept ‘It’s My Dwelling.’”

“I didn’t know the track,” he additional. “Now I’ll in no way fail to remember the track.”

“Listen, we have a extremely sweet friendship, and we are jointly all the time,” Cohen later explained to CNN immediately after he was requested if he was stunned that men and women believed they were dating. “I think that I was not stunned for the reason that we also have a wonderful appreciate for every other. So, it just appears to be like the clear assumption.”

In a 2015 Leisure Weekly short article, Cohen wrote, “John Mayer and I have what some would consider an not likely friendship. He’s one of our biggest dwelling guitarists, and I’m regarded as the dude that stirs the s—t on late-night Television set.”

In the very same story, Cohen said the duo took a highway vacation to see the Grateful Dead, and in the course of the journey, “the dude who can make all the ladies’ panties fall to the Powerhouse [a gay bar]… John was the ultimate wingman, inquiring me who was tickling my fancy. As the night time went on, we wound up on the dance floor and—from what I remember—it was absolutely nothing brief of euphoric.”

In 2017, Cohen shared a candid Instagram of Mayer lounging in a lodge bathrobe, although the two experienced breakfast on a balcony all through the singer’s “The Search For Every little thing Tour.”

Cohen captioned the photo, “I have the most effective, weirdest vacation karma with @johnmayer the place we always wind up in the similar city, which means plenty of food and a river of text. He break up all over again, for the #SearchForEverything tour. Can’t hold out to see it.”

Mayer also shocked Cohen in the L.A. Clubhouse on “WWHL” with a gift for Cohen’s then-long run son.

“John wrote, ‘I have in no way met you nonetheless I already like you,’” Cohen unveiled.

In 2022, when Cohen got his star on the Hollywood Stroll of Fame, Mayer gave a speech at the ceremony where by he claimed, “I appreciate Andy additional than I can explain to you. He’s a good human staying, a hilarious cohort, a loving son and brother — and more not long ago he’s turn out to be a proud, engaged and deeply devoted father.”

Cohen is at this time solitary and on all the the courting apps, like Tinder, Grindr, Scruff, Hinge, and Raya. 

“I obtained kicked off Grindr as soon as simply because any individual claimed me for impersonating myself,” he advised THR. 

“People are like, ‘Nice test. Why are you sending me Andy Cohen’s pics?’ But when in a even though it will perform out.”