Michael Phelps Takes a Dip with Anderson Cooper

First Anderson Cooper bends it with Beckham; now he's getting wet with Michael Phelps. Gotta give it to the Silver Fox: he's taking full advantage of his press pass.

Cooper's 13-minute 60 Minutes segment on Phelps is a little late in coming. Most of us know practically all there is to know about the Olympic It-Boy. And what we do learn (he wasn't completely happy with his performance in Beijing; he turns down $5 million endorsement deals daily) isn't all that revelatory.

But it's still worth a watch. Why? Well, for one, some awesome shots of that awesome body. And while I contest the idea that Phelps plays for our team, I thought I felt some chemistry between Coop and Phelps' agent. 

The most fun, though, is watching Anderson suggest a little swim match between the two. While it's obviously a foregone conclusion that he'll lose (despite the handicap of Phelps swimming underwater the entire time vs. AC diving in and freestyling), he might've helped himself out a bit if he'd donned the Speedo too. Why so shy, Anderson?

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Comments

[Tony]

Whoopee - finally we see the Silver Fox stripped of his concealing CNN suit! But those flappy old shorts!!! - he would have looked so much sexier in a speedo. Oh, well, mustn't grumble.

[Tim]

I just don't get why people think Anderson is cute. Sorry...

[ryan]

Keith Olbermann on Closeted Anderson Cooper:

"Don’t tell me you don’t want to talk about personal life when you wrote a book about your father’s death and your brother’s death. You can’t move this big mass of personal stuff out for public display, then people ask questions and you say, ‘Oh, no, I didn’t say there was going to be any questions.’ Don’t tell me you can’t talk about your personal life and then, when they send you overseas and you do a report that consists of your voice-over and pictures of you in a custom-made, blue-to-match-your-eyes bulletproof vest, looking somberly at these scenes of human devastation—like a tourist—and that’s your report. Your shtick is your personal life."

I have to say Olbermann has a point. I've long felt that if a celebrity makes appearances with "dates" or, say, write books that spill all the personal beans except for whom they spoon with at night, then they are being a hypocrite and I can't get too outraged when they get questioned about the part of their personal life that for some reason isn't as relevant as the rest.

Olberman doesn't deny who he is - he loves cooch and gets as much as possible. He's also very sharp and champions more gay issues than Cooper has the balls to even acknowledge. You can bet your ass that if Olberman interviewd Thomas Roberts he wouldn't have whitewashed Thomas' homosexuality.

Personally, I'm bored with Anderson Cooper. I used to admire him as a newsman. But as a person, I think he's a coward.

[bruce]

big deal. who really cares? AC is much better looking than Phelps. I don't find him in any way, shape or form attractive. He's not ugly, just not the god that everyone says he is. Awesome body from the neck down, but from the neck up, below average. Just my opinion.

[jsmith333]

Michael Phelps resembles a 6'5" Georghe Muresan, the former (fugly) Washington Wizards Center who had to leave the NBA because of a pituitary gland disease that kept him growing, and growing and growing, to the point he became 7 foot 8 inches tall.

From the neck down, however, a total stud. He'd make a killing in gay porn!

Personally, I think Anderson Cooper wanted to get in his pants. That's why he stripped down on national TV.