Anderson Cooper and Brown Bear (L), Anderson Cooper and Wyatt (R).Photo:LiveKellyandMark/YouTube; Anderson Cooper/Instagram
LiveKellyandMark/YouTube; Anderson Cooper/Instagram
Anderson Coopershared the end of his son’s missing stuffed animal saga.
Appearing on an episode ofLive with Kelly and Markon Tuesday, the CNN host, 56, updatedMark Consuelos, 52, on son Wyatt’s toy, Brown Bear, who was missingduring his last appearance on the daytime show in July.
“Last I was on the show, I put out an appeal to the nation — an APB, for my son’s Brown Bear — and you have the kindest, nicest viewers in the world,” the father of two shared.
“This was my son’s beloved Brown Bear that he’s had since he was born. And it went missing, he couldn’t find it. Checked everywhere for it for weeks and weeks and weeks. I put out an appeal in desperation. Within a few hours — within minutes! — I start getting DMs from around the world. From people literally around the world,” Cooper continued.
The journalist noted that after doing research and being unable to find it on his own, “Your viewers, within an hour, found three of them on Etsy.”
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Brown Bear new and old.LiveKellyandMark/YouTube
LiveKellyandMark/YouTube
“Now, first of all, I didn’t know what Etsy was. I knew eBay, I didn’t know Etsy. They found one — your social media person, Andrea, found one on Etsy in Australia. Another viewer found one on Etsy in London, I think. And then one from somewhere else around the world. And I quickly, immediately, went on Etsy and got all of them,” he laughed.
What Cooper wasn’t expecting at that point was for the original missing bear to resurface.
Brown Bear old and new.LiveKellyandMark/YouTube
Cooper noted that Maisani, with whom he also shares 19-month-old sonSebastian Luke, “swore he searched the car up and down.”
“Of course I was happy I found it. But I can use this against him for the rest of his life. Every time there’s an argument, I’ll be like, ‘Well, what about the bear…,'” Cooper joked.
“In Benjamin’s defense, this is easy, this could blend in,“Kelly Ripachimed in.
Showing the distinct difference between the two, Cooper said, “That’s the parable. To me, this is a parable of love. This is what love does to you.”
“Love chews your ears, it mats your fur, it smushes your nose, it makes you dirty and your fur all matted. This is the price of love and yet now they’re together, and I’m very happy, and Wyatt is too,” he concluded.
source: people.com
