{"id":20684,"date":"2026-03-14T13:51:55","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20684"},"modified":"2026-03-14T13:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:51:55","slug":"anderson-cooper-bids-farewell-to-60-minutes-after-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20684","title":{"rendered":"Anderson Cooper Bids Farewell To 60 Minutes After Two Decades!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"90\" data-end=\"357\">Anderson Cooper is leaving <em data-start=\"117\" data-end=\"129\">60 Minutes<\/em> after nearly 20 years, citing family priorities. The 57-year-old CNN anchor said he wants to spend more time with his young sons, Wyatt, 4, and Sebastian, 3, while balancing his co-parenting schedule with ex Benjamin Maisani.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"359\" data-end=\"611\">Cooper joined <em data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"385\">60 Minutes<\/em> in 2007 while continuing to anchor <em data-start=\"421\" data-end=\"443\">Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0<\/em>, becoming one of the few journalists with major roles on both cable and network TV. CBS praised his \u201cunforgettable stories\u201d and said the show would welcome him back.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"613\" data-end=\"847\">He will remain at CNN, continuing his nightly show and co-hosting the annual New Year\u2019s Eve special with Andy Cohen. His departure coincides with a turbulent period at CBS, including leadership changes and high-profile resignations.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u-9pEM_HfVo?si=w4i2GhglP-rSM7r4\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anderson Cooper is leaving 60 Minutes after nearly 20 years, citing family priorities. The 57-year-old CNN anchor said he wants to spend more time with his young sons, Wyatt, 4, and Sebastian, 3, while balancing his co-parenting schedule with ex Benjamin Maisani. Cooper joined 60 Minutes in 2007 while continuing to anchor Anderson Cooper 360\u00b0,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=20684\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Anderson Cooper Bids Farewell To 60 Minutes After Two Decades!&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20686,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20684\/revisions\/20686"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}