Kathy Griffin wasn’t making Anderson Cooper red-faced in Times Square on New Year’s Eve, having gotten the boot for her bloody Trump-head stunt.

Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper on CNN New Year's Eve show from Times Square.
Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper on CNN New Year’s Eve show from Times Square. Image via YouTube.com
But Cooper stayed warm and toasty thanks to some pricey attire for the frigid gig.

“On Thursday, I called up this store called The Warming Store in Philadelphia I found on the internet,” the CNN anchor told Stephen Colbert on “The Late Show.”

“I spent $2,900 buying electric clothing. I didn’t know that they had electrically heated clothing now.”

He went on: “There’s a battery pack on your socks, a battery back on your vest, on your long underwear, on your hat, on your gloves and they sold me the Ferrari of warming gloves, they said. It was kind of amazing. I had coats over it, but every now and then, you could press a button and your pecks would get really hot.”

His friend and sidekick Andy Cohen wore less high-tech gear, but contributed to higher ratings.

The annual CNN telecast’s ratings climbed 10 percent from the previous year for an average 3.3 million viewers, noted The Hollywood Reporter.

That was No. 1 among cable shows, but ABC’s “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest” averaged 25.6 million viewers for the hour surrounding the ball drop, THR said.

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