They’re slow dancing in a burning room.
Andy Cohen, 55, has addressed the rumors that he’s dating John Mayer, 46.
“Let them speculate!” the Bravo puppetmaster told the Hollywood Reporter in an interview published Wednesday.
“I honestly love John Mayer, and he loves me,” Cohen continued.
“But because we’re so affectionate toward each other, people don’t know what box to put that in. They assume we’re sleeping with each other, which we are most definitely not.”
Cohen and the “Your Body is a Wonderland” crooner have been pals for over a decade, after meeting through a friend and discovering their mutual love for the Grateful Dead.
The “Watch What Happens Live” host even confessed that the two are “in love with each other,” even though their relationship is strictly platonic.
During an appearance on SiriusXM’s “The Howard Stern Show” in June 2023, host Howard Stern asked Cohen if he was in love with Mayer.
“I am in love with John Mayer,” Cohen said.
“We are in love with each other.”
He later swore on his children — Benjamin Allen, 4, and Lucy Eve, 19 months — that he and Mayer, who is straight, have never had a sexual relationship.
Cohen, who is gay, has often faced rumors that he’s involved with Mayer.
In 2018, Cohen denied the pair were dating after Mayer serenaded him with an acoustic version of Diana Ross‘ “It’s My House.”
Cohen thanked him with a hug and a kiss on the lips.
“I’ve done nothing but learn that song in the last 48 hours,” Mayer said. “I have eaten, breathed, and slept ‘It’s My House.’
“I didn’t know the song,” he added.
“Now I’ll never forget the song.”
“Listen, we have a very sweet friendship, and we are together all the time,” Cohen told CNN after he was asked if he was surprised that people thought they were dating.
“I think that I was not surprised because we also have a great love for each other. So, it just seems like the obvious assumption.”
In a 2015 Entertainment Weekly article, Cohen wrote, “John Mayer and I have what some would consider an unlikely friendship. He’s one of our greatest living guitarists, and I’m regarded as the dude that stirs the s–t on late-night TV.”
In the same story, Cohen said the duo took a road trip to see the Grateful Dead, and during the trip, “the dude who can make all the ladies’ panties drop to the Powerhouse [a gay bar]… John was the ultimate wingman, asking me who was tickling my fancy. As the night went on, we wound up on the dance floor and — from what I remember — it was nothing short of euphoric.”
In 2017, Cohen shared a candid Instagram of Mayer lounging in a hotel bathrobe, while the two had breakfast on a balcony during the singer’s the Search for Everything tour.
Cohen captioned the photo, “I have the best, weirdest travel karma with @johnmayer where we always wind up in the same city, which means lots of food and a river of words. He split again, for the #SearchForEverything tour. Can’t wait to see it.”
Mayer also surprised Cohen in the LA Clubhouse on “WWHL” with a gift for Cohen’s then-future son.
“John wrote, ‘I have never met you yet I already love you,’ ” Cohen revealed.
In 2022, when Cohen got his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Mayer gave a speech at the ceremony where he said, “I love Andy more than I can tell you. He’s a brilliant human being, a hilarious cohort, a loving son and brother — and more recently he’s become a proud, engaged and deeply devoted father.”
Cohen is single and on all the the dating apps, including Tinder, Grindr, Scruff, Hinge, and Raya.
“I got kicked off Grindr once because somebody reported me for impersonating myself,” he told THR.
“People are like, ‘Nice try. Why are you sending me Andy Cohen’s pictures?’ But once in a while it will work out.”
