Andy Cohen | Episode 1 | Tea & Sympathy with Audrey Kavanagh-Dowsett & Nicky Perry

Описание: We sat down with Andy Cohen, Emmy Award winning producer, best selling author, creator and executive producer of the global hit Real Housewives franchise, and the face of Bravo’s long running talk show Watch What Happens Live, for the premiere episode of the Tea and Sympathy Podcast, filmed inside our West Village landmark that has been a cultural hub for more than thirty years. Speaking about London and New York through his eyes, fatherhood and finding balance, Andy, a longtime friend of the restaurant and neighbour of more than two decades, shared stories that capture why Tea and Sympathy has always been a crossroads of British culture and New York life.

The conversation touched on Andy’s close friendship with Sarah Jessica Parker, herself a regular at Tea and Sympathy, and his admiration for British icons including Ralph Fiennes and Hugh Grant. Naomi Campbell, a friend of Nicky Perry and a longstanding supporter of the restaurant, emerged as Andy’s dream Housewife.

Nicky recalled a famously cheeky exchange with Prince Edward and revealed how a former partner, a well known English celebrity, has model train playdates with King Charles. These stories sit alongside Tea and Sympathy’s own guestbook of legends, from Sandra Bernhard and Rupert Everett to the Sykes sisters in their notorious It Girl years, all of whom remind us why the restaurant has become a fixture of British glamour in New York.

About the show
The Tea and Sympathy Podcast celebrates style, culture and the people who shape them on both sides of the Atlantic. Hosted by Audrey Kavanagh Dowsett and Nicky Perry, it brings the legacy of a much loved British restaurant in the West Village into conversation with leading voices from fashion, film, music, literature and beyond.

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Host and Executive Producer: Audrey Kavanagh-Dowsett
Creative Director and Director of Photography: Madeleine Peters
Producer: Isabel Evans
Cinematographer: Zach Caldwell
Sound Recordist: Catherine Hood
Color Correction: Liv Peters
Hair: Kevin Ryan represented by Art + Commerce
Makeup Artist: Jacqueline Piccola
Photographer: Ian Rutter
Social Media Coordinator: Camille Duvall
Location Manager: Iain Anderson
Styling Assistant: Sheyla Cuevas
Production Assistant: Danielle Ncube

Thank you to our brilliant crew and neighbors Otte NY for dressing us.

Audrey wears the long sleeve dolman midi dress in bluebell by Victoria Beckham (Victoria Beckham’s AW24). Nicky wears the pointed shoulder jacket and cropped kick trouser in pen ink by Victoria Beckham (Victoria Beckham’s AW24), and the Cyrielle shirt by Prune Gold Schmidt.