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He is of mostly English, Irish, and Dutch.He was also a TV journalist, anchor, actor, author, child fashion model.Cooper is also of Spanish heritage.At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on 17 September 1970, when he appeared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's from age 10 to 13.

Trivia

Cooper is a self-described "news junkie", having been one "since I was in utero."[4]

Cooper was photographed as a baby by Diane Arbus for Harper's Bazaar.[16][17]

At the age of three, Cooper was a guest on The Tonight Show on 17 September 1970, when he appeared with his mother, Gloria Vanderbilt.[18]

Cooper modeled with Ford Models for Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein and Macy's from age 10 to 13.[1]

His height is approximately 5' 10" (1.78 m).[19]

Cooper started getting gray hair at age 20, and was completely gray by age 35; Cooper has written "Going gray is like ejaculation. You know it can happen prematurely, but when it actually does, it's a total shock."[20]

Regarding his appearance on Celebrity Jeopardy: "It was called the Power Players edition, though I'm not sure why I was in it because I'm neither a "playa" nor a person of power. The experience really made me realize how much of a loser I am, because of how much I got into it. I mean, it's kind of a no-win proposition. In what I do you're supposed to know a certain amount of things, and there you are exposing yourself to ridicule for not knowing stuff. I didn't consider it that much in advance, but that morning I woke up and was like 'What have I got myself into?' But I feel OK about it now."[4]

He was once a judge on Iron Chef America.[21]

Cooper was among the top ten men on Vanity Fair's international best-dressed list, which was published in the magazine's April 2004 issue. He appeared again on the international best-dressed list in the magazine's September 2006 issue.

He has been named as one of the Sexiest Men Alive in 2005 by People magazine.[22]

He was Number 3 on Playgirl magazine's Sexiest Newscasters List in 2004.[23]

Cooper was the commencement speaker for the graduating class of 2005 at Kean University[24] and the class of 2006 at Yale University.[25]

He currently has a pet Welsh Springer Spaniel named Molly. [26]

On February 26, 2007, Anderson Cooper interviewed news legend Walter Cronkite at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California, in the second installment of a four-part University of Judaism Public Lecture Series.

I first became familiar with Anderson Cooper almost 15 years ago on Channel One. He was a correspondent for this Channel One that showed about a fifteen minute news programs each day solely in high schools (during homeroom). Lisa Ling was also a news correspondent with him, and then went on to The View and she is now a correspond ant for Oprah. He also did not have gray hair back then either, it was a sandy blond.

Cooper, who was born in New York City, is the younger son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artist, designer, writer, and railroad heiress Gloria Vanderbilt. By his mother, he is a great-great-great-grandson of railroad magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt.

He is of mostly English, Irish, and Dutch ancestry. Cooper is also of Spanish heritage, through his great-great-grandmother Luisa Fernández de Valdivieso, whose family had settled in Chile in the 17th century. She was the second wife of Cooper's great-great-grandfather Union general Hugh Judson Kilpatrick.

After graduating high school at age 17, Cooper went on a survival trip run by the Encounter Overland company to southern Africa in a "13-ton British Army truck" during which time he contracted malaria and required hospitalization in Kenya. Describing the experience, Cooper wrote "Africa was a place to forget and be forgotten in."

Cooper's older brother, Carter Vanderbilt Cooper, committed suicide on July 22, 1988, at age 23, by jumping from the 14th-floor terrace of Vanderbilt's New York City penthouse apartment. Gloria Vanderbilt later wrote about her son's death in the book A Mother's Story, in which she expresses her belief that the suicide was caused by a psychotic episode induced by an allergy to the anti-asthma medical prescription drug Proventil (though in addition, it has been theorized that he was sleepwalking and not in his usual state). Carter's suicide is apparently what sparked Anderson to become a journalist:

"Loss is a theme that I think a lot about, and it’s something in my work that I dwell on. I think when you experience any kind of loss, especially the kind I did, you have questions about survival: Why do some people thrive in situations that others can’t tolerate? Would I be able to survive and get on in the world on my own?"[1]

Cooper also has two older half-brothers, Leopold Stanislaus Stokowski (born 1950) and Christopher Stokowski (born 1952), from Gloria Vanderbilt's ten-year marriage to the conductor Leopold Stokowski. Christopher has been estranged from the family since the mid 1970s.[citation needed]

Cooper has never married, but expresses a desire to eventually have a family and children. In contrast to his mother's life spent in the spotlight of tabloid journalists however, Cooper has actively avoided discussing his relationships or even his sexual orientation when interviewed, citing a desire to protect his neutrality as a journalist:

"I understand why people might be interested. But I just don’t talk about my personal life. It’s a decision I made a long time ago, before I ever even knew anyone would be interested in my personal life. The whole thing about being a reporter is that you're supposed to be an observer and to be able to adapt with any group you’re in, and I don’t want to do anything that threatens that."

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His mother is Gloria Vanderbilt. One of his older brothers commited suicide. He's never been married. Studied Vietnamese at the University of Hanoi. He's 5' 10". He has a dog named Molly. During his senior year at Dalton, he left school and drove across South Africa in a truck. He contracted malaria while there & had to be hospitalized. Doesn't drink hot beverages.

Random Anderson trivia is my specialty:

He played the Mayor of Munchkin Land in his 4th grade version of The Wizard of Oz.

Proof:http://web.archive.org/web/20051126084332/http://w...

Anderson wears his watch on his left hand.

Proof: Check Any photo

He wears Rocawear boxers.

Proof: http://entertainment.iwon.com/celebgossip/star/id/...

He was one of the Sexiest men alive in 2006 in People Magazine.

He doesn't like to drink hot beverages.

He hosted the reality TV show on ABC THE MOLE.

He used to wait tables at the popular restaurant "Mortimer's" in New York City.

His older brother Carter committed suicide in 1988.

I read his biograghy about 2 months back.

Meet new human beings, communicate extra, loaf around with human beings, shuttle exterior of your united states, help others by potential of volenteering at an previous abode or something which will help all of us, everywhere, and at each time... stick to your desires because of the fact the different individual mentioned.... do what you regularly wanted to do... there's a meaning to each thing we do in our existence.... its like a interest you're taking part in the day you have been born which will stop once you die... play this interest.... achive your objectives... convey jointly appreciate, provide appreciate, look into different's foot steps see in case you desire to do the comparable issues as they did to bypass directly to the subsequent point of their interest of existence... all you're able to do is shop on going and on no account stop.... you notice you're taking part in this interest with entire lotta human beings no time to waste... and shop on going.... roll the cube and pass....

Anderson goes commando. Shhhh

I dont think no one is goin to answer this question. who the hell is anderson cooper. its all about Larry King