In a New Years Eve surprise, Andy Cohen revealed the gender of his baby-to-be on live television before the ball dropped.

Co-hosting CNN s coverage of the Times Square celebration with the networks Anderson Cooper , Cohen made the big announcement.

Its a boy, and Ive got to tell you something I cannot wait to meet this boy, Cohen said. Im so excited. I think about nothing else.

Cohen described the joyous event as one he didnt expect, nothing that when I was growing up and when we were growing up ... I just never thought it would be possible as a gay man to grow up and have a family and then here we are in 2018 almost 19 and anything is possible and Im so grateful to a wonderful surrogate that Im working with.

The Cohen-Cooper team rang in the New Year together for the second time for CNN following the 2017 firing of comedian Kathy Griffin after she posted a photo of herself holding a fake severed head made to look like President Donald Trump .