"Time-balls" precede the Times Square New Year's Eve tradition. Balls have been "dropped" since at least the 1830s at England’s Royal Observatory at Greenwich, where a ball dropped at a set hour every day for captains to set their navigation tools.

Andy Cohen is addressing fans wondering if he fine-tuned his face to ring in the new year. The Watch What Happens Live host offered a candid reply to a Threads post that speculated he'd had cosmetic surgery before cohosting CNN’s New Year’s Eve Live with Anderson Cooper.