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What's the secret to spending New Year's Eve outside in the middle of Times Square? Layers.
New Year's Eve last year was the second coldest ever recorded in New York – temperatures lingered around 9 degrees, but it was even colder (minus 4) with wind chill. And while the forecasts for this year seem to be much lenient, live broadcasts from Times Square are not at risk.
"Last year, I actually had two [pairs of] gloves, it's like it was cold," Ryan Seacrest, "Rockin's" animator Dick Clark's New Year Eve, "says The Post in an email. "I wore gloves heated with electricity and we superimposed them with merino wool."
Despite the overlay, Seacrest says he "moves a lot, which helps to maintain the power." adrenaline. "" Even though it's in the weather most of the night, "the decor offers a bit of respite.
"The platform where I am in the middle of Times Square is equipped with heating radiators," says Seacrest.
Do not tell Andy Cohen, co-host of CNN's" New Year's Live "show with his longtime friend Anderson Cohen said he had "fought tooth and nail" last year to install portable heaters on the shelf, but that he was rebuffed.
" They told me it was a fire hazard, "Cohen told The Post.
" Our shelf is really small, like only 5 feet on a riser, "says Cooper . "I think Ryan Seacrest has a whole set and a whole production. Andy seemed a bit surprised to see how all this was devoid of substance. "
Prior to last year's tooth-slapping broadcast, Cooper, who is organizing for the 16th time this year, has been proactive and spent close to $ 3,000 in advanced technology. electrically heated clothing (gloves, coats, vests) from the Warming Store in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, an incident on the set ("It was so cold that no one thought it was right", he said) separated batteries. This year, he plans to load the clothes in advance and try again. Cohen, meanwhile, is going a little more to the old.
"I love these little technical hand warmers that you can get at [the drugstore] and you put on your gloves and boots," says Cohen. "I'm going to have a big bag."
Last year, it's pretty much what happened to Maria Menounos, co-host of "New Year's Eve with Steve Harvey." For her wedding in Times Square with his long-time boyfriend, Keven Undergaro, his team sewed these little sleeves into his coat.
"They created pockets in the lining for them!", Menounos said to the Post
Then, after the marriage, she changed her dress ("I had to change into the street, literally, with a black curtain around me!", she said) in several layers – leggings lined with faux fur, cashmere tights, several layers of socks as well as Uggs and Heat-Tech trousers and shirts. [19659002] That's why, she says, this year she will arrive in New York "like Beyoncé on tour" with a lot of luggage.
"I choose between about 100 jackets this year," she says. "I'm so scared of last year, but even though it's supposed to be sweeter this year, I do not want to be without preparation. "
The preparation seems to rock from year to year for" Rockin 'Eve "The Jenny Correspondent McCarthy, who spends most of the night on the street with party goers and not on stage with Seacrest's heaters.
"I wear seven long underwear. There are some like those in silk, those in cashmere, those in wool. They get thicker as I progress, "she says, adding that she was also a fan of those little warming pads that everyone loves. "They are stuck all over my body."
Yet even a New Year's Eve veteran, like McCarthy, who has been working for Times Square since 2010, makes occasional missteps in fashion.
"Last year, I made the mistake of wearing a fashionable Burberry raincoat, which was a bright pink," states McCarthy. "I thought it would come out of the screen. It was the stupidest thing I ever did, except to die my brown hair once. It was a paper thin raincoat. He was not even doubled. People have told me that I was stupid. I thought I looked cool, but it was not.
Trying to look cool on TV is hard enough, but even harder with a hat. While appearing in "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon in early December, Cohen said he did not like his look in a winter hat, so he took it off last year. Cooper, too, sometimes fled a hat because his secret is pretty famous
This year, do not be surprised if you see Cohen cover his head: on his show, Fallon offered Cohen a black cap in cashmere. to wear New Year's Eve.
"I've got some tricks as planned this year," says Cohen. "And I promise you that I will not complain."
Cooper says, "I think he's going to have a bottle."
– Additional reportage by Eric Hegedus
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