Anderson Cooper Knows He Freaks People out on Planes

It can be a little disconcerting when you’re flying next to a celebrity on an airplane, and for Anderson Cooper, it can get a little bit worse; apparently he freaks people out on planes, and when they see him on a flight, they wonder if there’s a problem at their destination because he’s going there too.

Most big celebrities tend to fly on private jets or charter flights—but not Anderson Cooper. He flies commercial airlines and apparently freaks people out whenever he does.

In a recent video by WIRED for a series that interviews celebrities with the most asked questions about them on Google, called the Autocomplete Interview, the CNN anchor was asked if he flies commercial. He replied that he does—“Of course. I work for basic cable,” he said in the video—but also that sometimes people get nervous seeing him on their flight.

“I’ve have had experiences when I’ve gotten on a plane and people start to look at me nervously and some people have said to me, ‘Is there something happening where I’m going, because I don’t know if I should be going where you’re going because you don’t go anywhere where good things happen,’” he said in the video.

He says he understands. He does have problems understanding this activity though, which he tells Architectural Digest is his biggest pet peeve while flying: “People who take their shoes and socks off on a plane. Really? No one wants to see your feet, Frodo Baggins. And what makes people think it’s okay to put their bare feet up on the armrests in front of them? Keep ’em down and keep a sock on those things.”

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