Anderson Cooper on Dot Ave.
In jeans, T-shirt, and a hoodie, Anderson Cooper looked right at home at the Dorchester Boys & Girls Club today. The silver-haired CNN host was there to tape an episode of his new daytime show, “Anderson,’’ focused on Mark Wahlberg. (The episode airs Friday.) But truth be told, it was the movie star’s mom who interested Cooper the most. “She had nine kids, got divorced, and then raised the kids by herself,’’ he said. “She’s a great lady. She was the one I really wanted to meet.’’ (Cooper knows something about great ladies: His mom is designer/heiress Gloria Vanderbilt.) He got his wish chance during a sitdown dinner with Mark, Donnie, Jimmy, Paul, and mom Alma at Wahlburger’s last night. (The burger joint in Hingham has its opening party tonight.) Asked about the new daytime show, Cooper said it’ll have more in common with Phil Donahue, Oprah, or Ellen than with the TV scrums hosted by Morton Downey Jr. or Sally Jesse Raphael. “It’s important to me to do things that are credible, have a point, and which benefit people,’’ he said. “This is not lowest-common-denominator stuff.’’
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