Anderson Cooper fills in for suspended Chris Cuomo on CNN(Pic Credit: Facebook/Anderson Cooper, Chris Cuomo)

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Anderson Cooper, a familiar face for CNN viewers since 2001, co-hosted a ‘town hall’ on the network devoted to news about coronavirus on Tuesday evening in the 9 p.m. slot typically anchored by Chris Cuomo, who was suspended for his role in defending his brother, New York disgraced former governor Andrew Cuomo.

‘Variety’ reports that Cooper, the most prominent gay news network journalist in America and son of the New York heiress and fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt, is likely to fill in for that hour for the rest of the week. It quoted a person familiar with the matter. Future programming for the part of the CNN schedule normally reserved for ‘Cuomo Prime Time’ is still being formulated, this person said to ‘Variety’.

CNN is devising new primetime plans in the wake of suspending Cuomo after revelations about his involvement in defending his brother while he grappled with allegations of sexual harassment that eventually forced him from office.

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