Is Andy Cohen Engaged to Hockey Player Sean Avery?

By all appearances, the answer would be yes. But it's sort of hard not to chalk this up to being a good old-fashioned prank.

Via a tip to The Fame Driven: 

I’m not sure if you are aware or not but Andy Cohen has been dating former NHL star Sean Avery for almost a year and a half now, it will be two years in March. And get this, they are secretly ENGAGED! There have been rumors for years in the NHL league about Sean Avery’s sexuality, but he has always vehemently denied it, Sean even went as far as to “date” a beard girlfriend (Elisha Cuthbert), who he was never even remotely into, to cover up him receiving backlash from his NHL teammates and internally in the NHL for being gay.  

Sean thinks that by having an openly gay relationship with another pubic figure such as Andy will give him the title of “NHL’s first openly gay athlete dating a BRAVO Executive” following him and people not notice him for anything else. Sean is openly gay/bisexual around close friends, but not to the public. 

Andy desperately wants to take their relationship public because all his friends are married or in a long term relationship (Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos, Anderson Cooper & Benjamin Maisani) and he’s tired of not being in a committed long term relationship. Every holiday the two vacation together and share the same hotel room. This labor day weekend the two are in the Southampton’s together. The two are trying to be very discreet, but they are definitely dating. They are also 12 years apart in age, Andy is 45 and Sean is 33.

Stay tuned. I've reached out to Andy for comment. For his part, we know Sean loves fashion and certainly been known to hang out in Chelsea, which kind of makes the whole thing a little too perfect.