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Valerie Bertinelli has spent decades being one of the most down-to-earth stars in Hollywood, but even she has a story about getting iced out by a fellow celebrity.
Long before she was flipping through recipes on “Valerie’s Home Cooking” and mentoring young bakers on “Kids Baking Championship,” Bertinelli sat down with Andy Cohen on Bravo’s “Watch What Happens Live” and named the one star who genuinely blew her off. The answer surprised viewers expecting a tabloid-style feud story — instead, it was a brief, cold brush-off backstage that stuck with her for years.
- In a November 2014 appearance on “Watch What Happens Live,” Bertinelli told Andy Cohen that Christina Aguilera was the rudest celebrity she’s ever encountered.
- The snub happened backstage at a Van Halen concert, where Bertinelli approached Aguilera as a fan and got dismissed with a flat “Yeah, whatever.”
- Bertinelli said she hadn’t crossed paths with Aguilera since, joking to Cohen, “She might have gotten better, but I heard she hasn’t.”
The Question That Started It
A viewer called into “Watch What Happens Live” asking Bertinelli about long-running rumors of a feud with Christina Aguilera. Bertinelli didn’t dodge it — she told Cohen there was no actual feud, just one memorably unpleasant encounter that had apparently followed her reputation for years afterward. It’s the kind of moment that plays well on a show built around unscripted, no-filter celebrity confessions, and Cohen pressed her for details.
The Backstage Brush-Off
Bertinelli explained that she’d met Aguilera backstage at a Van Halen concert, a setting she had easy access to given her marriage to the band’s guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. Starstruck as a fan, she walked up to Aguilera and told her, “Oh my God, I think you’re a beautiful singer.” According to Bertinelli, Aguilera didn’t return the warmth — she gave her a cold, dismissive “Yeah, whatever” and walked off.
“And I thought, ‘Bitch, I’m a fan. You can’t be nice to me?'”
That reaction, which Bertinelli shared word-for-word on air, captured exactly how blindsided she felt in the moment. She wasn’t asking for an autograph or a favor — just offering a compliment — and got nothing back but a shrug.
No Reconciliation, No Regrets
Bertinelli made clear the two haven’t spoken since that night. When Cohen asked whether things might have changed, she cracked, “She might have gotten better, but I heard she hasn’t.” It wasn’t said with venom — more the tone of someone who’d filed the story away years ago and only brought it back out because a fan asked. Moments like this tend to circulate because they’re relatable in a way manufactured celebrity drama isn’t; readers who enjoy pieces on stars who treat their fans like trash or celebrities shutting down disrespectful interviewers tend to gravitate toward the same kind of unfiltered honesty Bertinelli offered Cohen that night.
By the time this clip resurfaced online, Bertinelli was several seasons deep into “Valerie’s Home Cooking,” swapping green rooms for a kitchen set and interviewing a rotating cast of celebrity guests of her own. Christina Aguilera, unsurprisingly, has never been one of them.
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