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New Year's Eve Celebrations Around the World. Aired 4-5p ET
Aired February 08, 2024 - 16:00 ET
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN HOST: I mean, really late around here.
JOHN BERMAN, CNN HOST: Normally I do a morning show. Do you know, the last time I was up at 1:00 a.m. local time?
ANDERSON: Yeah.
BERMAN: Like, never, like never. But this is so exciting.
ANDERSON: Is this why you dressed like this tonight?
BERMAN: I had to. I had to wear sparkles to get started here.
Look, so the fireworks in at the Al Wathba, the Sheikh Zayed Festival still going on, and now we're just a few seconds away from Doha, just about 10 seconds.
ANDERSON: That's right. This world record to be set in Doha, a Guinness World record to be set in Al Wathba tonight in the UAE.
We are down four, three, five, four, two, one, something like that.
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(INJI PERFORMING "GIRLZ")
LAURA COATES, CNN HOST: Well, we were enjoying the fireworks in Qatar. And that great show. Abu Dhabi set a brand new world record 62 minutes straight of fireworks and 6,500 drones.
I want to get back right now to Max Foster in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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Max, fireworks every hour?
MAX FOSTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Unbelievable. We've just had a little burst of fireworks here, but wait until we get to midnight Scotland time where the castle will be lit up with 15,000 fireworks.
Alan Thomson has organized this whole event. We've got 50,000 people gathering. We'll show you in a moment, those people gathering.
But why are you letting fireworks into an ancient monument? AL THOMSON, DIRECTOR, UNIQUE ASSEMBLY: Well, why not? I mean, look at
how spectacular that castle looks. I mean, when we light it, when we get to midnight, the fireworks going off from there, it's one of the best spectacles. It's one of the great New Year fireworks, and we can't wait for people to see them around the world as well.
FOSTER: You're also -- shortly after that, we have "Auld Llang Syne" world show where "Auld Lang Syne" is going to play out. So, this is the song that went global about 100 years ago. No one quite knows where it came from. It's attributed to Burns, isn't it?
THOMSON: Yeah, it's --
FOSTER: What we're going to see here.
THOMSON: Burns's gift to the world. And I think that universal song, "Auld Lang Syne", that goes around the world, signs of hope and optimism and friendship. And when we get to midnight here after the fireworks, we have 50,000 people who are singing "Auld Lang Syne" in the city center all together, linking arms. It's a beautiful moment.
FOSTER: And they're on the whiskey. This is pretty cold. So by that point, it'll be merry.
THOMSON: There has been some whiskey drunk, I can assure you that.
FOSTER: It's all the advice I get from anyone when I'm freezing cold. It's subzero temperatures here. I'm in full winter gear and they just say, have a whiskey.
THOMSON: It's -- it's the best, quickest way to warm up is a whiskey. And what better night to do it on than Hogmanay?
FOSTER: Well, you seem pretty relaxed considering you've organized 50,000 people and a fireworks display.
THOMSON: I think the weather that we have now, I think that's the biggest stress of where we get to these kind of things. So, when the weather is fine, when people are enjoying themselves, that's when we relax. We just want people to have a good time and it's all about building up to midnight, and I can't wait for everyone to see those fireworks.
FOSTER: You'll see Alan holding hands wandering down the street party to "Auld Lang Syne" when it's all over.
Laura, you've got your spectacular fireworks as well
COATES: I mean, I don't have any whiskey. No one talked to me about whiskey. I don't -- I don't like this right now, but I want to keep the party rolling right now because Omar Jimenez is in one of my favorite towns, Clarksdale, Mississippi. He's at the Ground Zero Blues Club.
Have you spotted Morgan Freeman? Is he there? OMAR JIMENEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I was looking around for him. And
you know how they say sometimes it's right on your nose when you're looking for something.
And turns out he was right here. Look right around this corner here. We got blues fan himself, Mr. Morgan Freeman.
How you feeling?
MORGAN FREEMAN, ACTOR: I'm all right. How are you feeling?
JIMENEZ: Yeah. What are we going to see in a few minutes here?
FREEMAN: I have no idea. What are you talking about?
JIMENEZ: Yeah, you know what? We're going to figure this out together. Because, honestly, we just showed up here a few minutes ago, right?
FREEMAN: Yeah. Yeah.
JIMENEZ: Yeah.
FREEMAN: That's what -- yeah. You said a few minutes ago, and then you come, you say, Morgan, can we talk? And I think about what, Omar?
JIMENEZ: Well, then that surprise is going to come in a little bit. Ill give you guys a hint, though. It has something to do with all those Grammys playing out on stage right now.
FREEMAN: Grammy.
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COATES: Well, we have been watching so many wonderful fireworks tonight and we've got drones. We've got eight locations across Bahrain. Let's listen in for a second.
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COATES: Wow, that majestic kingdom of Bahrain. How fabulous was that?
I want to keep this party going. Everyone across the world, we've got CNN's Lynda Kinkade at the Anzie Blue in Nashville, Tennessee.
Lynda, are you having fun?
LYNDA KINKADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Happy New Year. I'm having the best time in Nashville. You know here, Laura, they do not wait until midnight to start dancing.
I'm here with Pynk Beard. He's a Grammy winning artist. You've written songs for Katy Perry, J.Lo, John Legend. What's it like
to perform your own music?
PYNK BEARD, GRAMMY WINNING ARTIST: It's amazing. It's a great opportunity to, like, experience the world in a different way. I'm so excited about it.
KINKADE: Well, happy New Year. What's your resolution?
BEARD: I just want to do it bigger and better this year than I did last year.
KINKADE: That's what we want to hear bigger and better. I'm going to let you take it away with "Sip" Pynk Beard (ph) playing. I'm going to come down and do some line dancing. I'll be right down.
BEARD: All right, all right, all right.
KINKADE: Justin Lead (ph) --
BEARD: Here we go.
KINKADE: -- line dancing instructor for Tennessee backward line dancing. You are teaching us a thing or two about boot scooting, right?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Trying to. That's what I'm here for. Yes. We're going to teach you some, too.
KINKADE: You got your work cut out because I've got two left feet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Okay, well, I think we can teach you. I think you'll do great.
KINKADE: Let's give it a go. I'll follow your lead.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sounds good. Here we go. You take this. Okay.
Here we go, y'all its a wild night.
(PYNK BEARD PERFORMING)
KINKADE: Justin Lead -- Tennessee line dancing. Great teacher.
And our thanks to Pynk Bear for "Sip". I'm going to need a sip now. I am thirsty, Boris.
COATES: I -- first of all, I'm about to learn how to do that dance just now. Lynda, you were going off. I love it, I love the Pynk Beard, too. And the dip. Dip.
Okay, we're going to Rio de Janeiro now with just another Guinness World Record for the largest ever New Year's Eve celebration hosted by a city.
CNN's Julia Vargas Jones is live from Copacabana Beach. Take it away, girl.
JULIA VARGAS JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yeah. We're here with this incredible cast of characters. Good job, you guys.
Okay, look one of the coolest things about Rio de Janeiro is that it's got this really unique type of dancing. It's called funky.
And this here is Nanda. She's amazing. She is one of the best dancers I know. And she's been trying to teach me how to do Brazilian twerking.
Now, now, how hard is it? I know you've been teaching Americans how to do this for a long time.
NANDA TEIXEIRA, DANCE INSTRUCTOR: Yes, it is hard, but it's not impossible. It's not.
JONES: We'll see, we'll see.
TEIXEIRA: Trusty Tia here. Okay?
JONES: Okay. So you've broken this down into a few steps. So what is step one?
TEIXEIRA: Step one. You're going to contract.
JONES: I want to see you guys doing that.
TEIXEIRA: And then you push out all the way.
JONES: Okay. So, I'm really like this is like an ab exercise. I'm like my abs. You're going to get your back out of their hips in, hips out, in.
TEIXEIRA: In. Now the secret the Brazilians work is the isolation. Now we're just going to move from the lower body. Upper body stays here. Beautiful. And then we contract and push out.
JONES: Okay, okay, okay.
TEIXEIRA: Okay. It's not so hard.
JONES: Faster. Hey.
TEIXEIRA: Okay.
JONES: Okay, okay. How are you guys doing?
TEIXEIRA: Keep controlling. Don't get too excited.
JONES: Okay.
TEIXEIRA: Put the hands down on the knees.
JONES: Okay. Hands on the knees. TEIXEIRA: Control it. You don't isolate. You're twerking.
JONES: Oh, my God, am I twerking?
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TEIXEIRA: Yes. Look at this isolation.
JONES: This is how you earn your Brazilian citizenship. Okay.
TEIXEIRA: This is step one. Step two.
JONES: Okay.
TEIXEIRA: See this? This -- this movement. Punch, punch, punch, punch. Imagine this movement now with your knees. Don't take the heels out of the floor.
JONES: Okay.
TEIXEIRA: Punch, punch, punch, punch, punch. Now, remember the isolation. Because when we bend one leg, we tend to bring everything together right? Isolate.
JONES: Okay, so my whole upper body is going to stay still. So you punching with your knees.
TEIXEIRA: Punch, punch. Yeah. Here we go. Punch, punch, punch.
JONES: Can I -- can I turn up the volume -- I'm going to turn up the volume.
TEIXEIRA: Okay.
JONES: Okay
TEIXEIRA: Hands on the knees.
JONES: Okay. So going left right left right left. Wait. I lost it.
TEIXEIRA: So, this is step two. Now, to do this Brazilian twerking. We're going to do a square with our hips. So, we're going to alternate those two steps that I just saw you.
JONES: okay. So, we're going in and out and one leg and the other punch.
TEIXEIRA: Yes. Like to rest the punch. And then we can do a down.
JONES: I can twerk.
TEIXEIRA: Down, up, up, again, down, down.
JONES: Oh my goodness.
TEIXEIRA: The isolation. This is the big finale, okay. JONES: Go faster.
TEIXEIRA: Yeah.
BORIS SANCHEZ, CNN HOST: Wow.
TEIXEIRA: Here we go, five, six, seven, eight. Hey, hey, hey, down, down, up, up, down. And your twerking.
Here we go.
COATES: All right, Boris.
JONES: You're amazing. Thank you so much. Okay, this is again. I feel --
SANCHEZ: I love that. I love that. That was awesome.
JONES: Thank you, everybody. Thank you, everybody. This is the magic of Rio, right?
COATES: I bet you do. That's what twerking about. Let's do it.
SANCHEZ: Magical --
JONES: Thank you, guys. I'll see you all trying this at home.
SANCHEZ: Magical indeed. Magical is the way to describe that. So much so that there are people in the background taking video of Julia and her squad doing this dance. Magical indeed.
Julia Vargas Jones live in Rio de Janeiro. Thank you so much for that.
Let's head over back to the United States, Clarksdale, Mississippi, with Morgan Freeman's Ground Zero Blues Club, and Omar Jimenez, who is standing by for us.
Omar, you're there with the man himself.
JIMENEZ: Hey, hey, I don't know how we can compete with that, but we're going to start down here in Clarksdale, birthplace of blues, with the one and only Morgan Freeman here. Mr. Morgan, can you just tell us what is blues music mean to a place like this?
FREEMAN: Well, everything just right now, because we, I guess for the last 25 years --
JIMENEZ: Yeah.
FREEMAN: -- we've been on the comeback trail, bringing blues, the recognition and all that back home where it actually belongs.
JIMENEZ: That's a -- a -- it's -- you can't go far here without hearing music, without seeing signs of the history that that has built places like this, including music. And you brought a whole cast of characters here. Who are we looking at here on your right here? FREEMAN: Well, on my right, we have, Kevin Moore, Keb Mo.
JIMENEZ: Yeah.
FREEMAN: And over there, right there, sitting right next to me. Yeah, yeah. Taj Mahal. Yeah.
I don't know if anybody knows Taj Mahal, but how many Grammys?
TAJ MAHAL, MUSICIAN: Five and a lifetime achievement award.
JIMENEZ: Yeah. That's okay, that's okay.
And I'm not going to make you say it, Keb Mo, but you have five Grammys, too. Just real quickly, tell us what you guys are about to do tonight. What are people going to see who are tuning in here to Clarksdale?
Keb, I'll start with you. What are you going to see?
KEB MO, MUSICIAN: Well, we're celebrating the New Year coming in.
JIMENEZ: Yeah.
MO: We're celebrating the blues and its importance in history and the big diaspora of American culture and everything. And just --
JIMENEZ: Yeah.
MO: Highlighting it.
JIMENEZ: I love it.
And, Taj, your voice screams blues to me. I don't know how you can get a voice like that even just talking. Tell us a little bit about what we're going to see tonight.
MAHAL: Well, let's see something that has gone out and it's a part of all the music around the world. Here it is.
JIMENEZ: See. He just starts talking and the music comes out.
And what you're hearing in the background right now is the Stax Music Academy based here in Memphis, near here in Memphis. And these are the sounds of the area here that you're going to hear throughout the night. I'm going to kick it off to you guys.
(LADY ADRENA AND STAX MUSIC ACADEMY PERFORMING)
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COATES: Wow. Beautiful fireworks from Iraq. And here we are in London today.
I've got Isa Soares with me today and -- Isa. I think Isa has a theme world I think. Are you -- Isa?
ISA SOARES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: One of the great British tradition? Check out my hat. Afternoon tea.
COATES: Oh, hold on, a cup.
SOARES: I'm going to stuck --
COATES: This is the -- which ones --
SOARES: Not stuck together?
COATES: Wait, wait.
SOARES: Got one?
COATES: This one.
SOARES: There we go. Afternoon tea.
COATES: This is -- you know what? You are magical. Because, girl, I am cold. And you look wonderful.
SOARES: Oh, are you feeling warmer now looking at me?
COATES: Is that what it is? Won't complain. You look great.
SOARES: This is one of the great traditions. Afternoon tea started off by the duchess of Bedford. She's feeling a bit peckish in between lunch and dinner. So, this is -- this is. This is one of the great ones of the day.
And of course, you would have done afternoon tea array, an assortment of beautiful. Boris tried to beat that in Paris.
COATES: I don't know if I --
SOARES: Oh, there they go. The cakes. These are real by the way.
COATES: I think that is my general state. Oh. These are real?
SOARES: Yeah.
COATES: I'll have one of these.
Okay, well, hold on a second. This might harm a New Year's resolution. Tell me some of yours.
Wait. Have it be interesting. Give me two truths and a lie from resolution.
SOARES: Okay. This is hard. Learning the guitar.
COATES: Okay.
SOARES: I've always wanted to learn another language. So Mandarin, I thought, would be a really good one.
COATES: Wow.
SOARES: And probably one that I think has to be in there is replying to texts. You know, often you think you've replied but you haven't really replied.
COATES: They might just say no, I don't reply to anything.
Wait, I think you're lie. I think the lie is the text messaging.
SOARES: No.
COATES: Really?
SOARES: It's the mandarin.
COATES: Really?
SOARES: Yeah. No.
COATES: That's -- that would be my lie.
SOARES: Really?
COATES: Oh my god, if -- honey, I can't see it, I'm sorry. My phones lost.
SOARES: I'm so bad at responding to people.
COATES: Okay, I'll give you --
SOARES: I'll respond in my head -- pardon me. I'll respond in my head.
COATES: Yes.
SOARES: And then that's it.
COATES: Okay, well, I'm going to respond by eating this.
SOARES: Okay. You tell me yours. So --
COATES: Okay. My two truths and a lie. Okay. One of them is to finish writing my fiction book.
SOARES: Okay.
COATES: Another one is --
SOARES: What is the fiction book about?
COATES: Well, you know, if I was lying, I told you the truth or not. I don't know. Other one is to cook all of my kids' dinners every single night.
SOARES: That is not going to happen.
COATES: The other one is to share my true obsession with true crime, with the world. What's my lie?
SOARES: Dinner with your kids.
COATES: Of course. This is dinner right now.
SOARES: Of course it is. Are you kidding? Kids meals? Are you insane?
COATES: I know. Actually, maybe she is. She's dressed like this today.
SOARES: Somehow --
COATES: I love it.
SOARES: -- you bring me here every year.
COATES: I don't know, I see you, I see you, I love it.
SOARES: Oh, great. Nothing better on a cold winter's night.
COATES: Okay, girl, I --
SOARES: The most expensive afternoon tea bag, 7,500 pounds. Almost 8,000 pounds. Diamond encrusted, my friend.
COATES: Why do you not bring that?
SOARES: Well, I know I need to speak to my producers, honestly.
COATES: This one.
SOARES: The trick --
COATES: -- looks unbelievable. Look, first of all, take this all in, globe. She understood the assignment.
SOARES: Yeah, I'm not seeing any diamantes or any shimmer on Boris.
COATES: I'm not. I'm not.
SOARES: I'm highly disappointed.
COATES: Boris --
SOARES: Do your game, Boris.
COATES: But you know what? The best assignment of the night. I got to know how Stephanie Elam got this one. Because you know where she is.
SOARES: Where?
COATES: Stephanie Elam is live in the Bahamas.
SOARES: Why do we always get the cold places?
COATES: What --
STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I mean, you know, somebody had to do it, guys. Somebody had to come to Atlantis here on Paradise Island, outside of Nassau in the Bahamas. We are going to have a ball tonight. We are celebrating the New Year, the arrival of 2026 all around the world here on CNN.
Coming up after the break, I'll be joined by two friends. Stay with us.
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COATES: And by the way, a special performance from Burna Boy from State Farm Arena in the ATL. Beat that Bahamas.
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SANCHEZ: Oh, Burna Boy. Okay.
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As we get new pictures of Nairobi ringing in the New Year, I want to get to an amazing performance from Nigerian singer and songwriter Burna Boy performing "Last Last" from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.
Here's Burna Boy.
(BURNA BOY PERFORMING "LAST LAST")
SANCHEZ: A heartfelt performance from Burna Boy at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, performing "Last Last". An incredible performance there.
Right now, I want to get to CNN's Stephanie Elam, who is live for us in the Bahamas.
And, Stephanie, for the second year in a row, I have to say, I love the assignment that I've got here in Paris. But you have arguably the most enviable one.
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You are in paradise right now, my friend. How do you keep getting so lucky? You've got an in with the decision makers for New Years eve. I know it.
ELAM: I'm going to agree with you, Boris. I'm not even going to disagree with you. This is our fourth year in a row here in beautiful Paradise Island at Atlantis, where, you know things are better. As they say. They're so awesome.
And you know what? Everyone is getting excited and ready for the big concert tonight, where you get to party like a royal here in Atlantis. And so, performing tonight are Two Friends. I know you're thinking they're two of my friends, but that's actually their name. Two Friends. Come on in.
This is Matt and Eli.
Gentlemen. So good to meet you guys. This is your first CNN interview. How's it going so far? Are you nervous?
ELI JONES, "TWO FRIENDS": How are we doing?
ELAM: I think you're doing great.
How are you feeling?
MATTHEW HALPER, "TWO FRIENDS": I'm feeling great. I'm so excited for tonight. We're here in -- it's a beautiful day. We got to hang out on the beach. And tonight, we're going to, you know, start celebrating.
ELAM: OK. You guys have been friends, like, since the beginning of seventh grade. Is that correct? How do you guys still keep performing together, deejaying together? Keep collaborating and not get sick of each other. How does this work?
JONES: Luckily, we're friends first before we started "Two Friends", so that helps.
ELAM: Relationship advice. It sounds like.
JONES: Oh my God, we would be absolute experts. We -- there's no other person in the world I could do this with. So, you know, he's a good guy.
ELAM: That helps. That helps out a lot.
And you guys have been selling out arenas for years. People are really into it. How did you guys come around to dance music being the way that you wanted to go?
HALPER: I mean, it's a good question. When we were first starting out, it definitely was not quite as popular as it is now, especially in the U.S.
But we grew up. We would go to Coachella and other music festivals, and we kind of just got inspired and were like, this is a new, exciting genre, let's dive in.
And it kind of just started on a whim. We Googled how to produce dance music, and we kind of just read some forum pages about it, and we got some software and --
JONES: Spent a lot of hours.
HALPER: Yeah.
ELAM: That is insane. And you guys kept it up when you went to two different universities, Stanford and --
HALPER: Vanderbilt. ELAM: Vanderbilt, right? I thought it was Vanderbilt and still kept
it up. But you really got going after college, is that right?
JONES: We honestly during college we you know, we were getting after it at that time. What was it? We were like Skype. We'd have to -- oh, my god.
HALPER: Screen sharing.
JONES: I do my homework from 8:00 p.m. to midnight and then from midnight to 4:00 a.m. produce all day.
ELAM: All the music was done.
Okay, so what can we expect tonight? How are you guys going to get the crowd hyped tonight? What's the mood? What are we going for?
JONES: I mean, I feel pretty confident. We just walked by the stage. Great vibe. It's hard not to be excited being here. You know?
ELAM: It's a lot of fun. I do have a question because you have an album that's called "Big Bootie", but its B-O-O-T-I-E.
So I'm wondering if you guys have big boots. Do you guys have socks that you really like? How did the name come around? I really have questions.
HALPER: Yeah, I mean you got some good questions and I got a bunch of answers for you.
ELAM: Okay.
HALPER: So, the "Big Bootie" mixes are these, these hour long mixes we've been doing. We're on volume -- we're about to do volume 27, 27 of them. They're kind of mashup songs from all different genres, all different decades into like one mega mix that you could work out to, you could party to, you could do your homework to.
JONES: Whatever you want.
HALPER: But you mentioned big boots, and that's kind of an easter egg because we are working on some country dance music.
ELAM: So there's multiple reasons to have boots.
I think as we send it back to, Boris, you guys should show us your best dance moves since you guys have dance music and -- Boris, yeah, we're going to have a great time here in Atlantis. Having a fun time. I hope you're having a great time too. And happy New Year, my friend.
SANCHEZ: There we go. There we go. Happy New Year to you, Stephanie. Always great to hear from you. Even when I'm envious that you were in the Bahamas, warm, wearing a T-shirt, watching these dance moves. Good looking dance moves.
SANDY HERIBERT, CNN HOST: Definitely. SANCHEZ: And we're here in the cold in Paris.
Sandy, cold indeed. I'm wearing this, like electric underwear right now, and it's on because last year.
HERIBERT: Oh, gosh, it's on.
SANCHEZ: Yeah, it's on last year. I was like a Cuban popsicle out here freezing with influenza. But now we're nice and warm. Hopefully it doesn't catch fire. Otherwise, it's going to be more than fireworks behind us. There might be some here live.
And we do have a bit of a spectacle with us right now as we get closer to midnight here in Paris, we invited somebody who is known as a quintessential Frenchman to join us.
It's a bit of a surprise.
HERIBERT: Yes, he is tall, handsome, has white hair. Who could that be?
Here he is, it's Bruno.
SANCHEZ: Bruno Gouery. You might have seen him on "Emily in Paris", on white lotus, on a number of other amazing productions. We have actually a clip from Emily in Paris right now.
Let's watch.
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SANCHEZ: Bruno is the stereotypical French ladies man on the show as Luke, right?
BRUNO GOUERY, FRENCH ACTOR: Absolutely.
SANCHEZ: Yeah.
GOUERY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Double life, you know?
SANCHEZ: Yeah.
GOUERY: It's a very cliche from the French, but I enjoy to do that kind of cliche, you know, in a -- in a show. So --
SANCHEZ: You -- I see you hiding from, I guess, a love interest there, pretending like you're looking for a napkin as you're with another love interest.
How close is that to the real Bruno?
GOUERY: My personal life?
SANCHEZ: Yeah. Did you do a lot of research for that role? GOUERY: Not so many research, but I have to look around me. And I
have to say that I have many examples I have to say. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SANCHEZ: Yeah, yeah.
GOUERY: Not in my personal life.
SANCHEZ: Well, you do a great job on the show. Hey, we're going to have so much more with Bruno and Sandy. We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back at CNN's "NEW YEARS EVE LIVE" continues from Paris.
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COATES: You're watching CNN's special coverage of New Year's Eve around the world.
I'm Laura Coates in London. Boris Sanchez is in Paris.
Boris, we've got one hour to go, of course
SANCHEZ: It is going to be magnifique. We are going to see a spectacular fireworks show. We're going to see the Arc De Triomphe lit up with lasers. Laura, I am so excited and I'm so excited that you are joining us as well.
I am flanked by two French stars. We've got Sandy Heribert right here and Bruno Gouery, a star from "Emily in Paris", and "White Lotus".
I do want to find out because Luke on "Emily in Paris" is this quintessential ladies man. You said a moment ago a bit cliche, but American audiences love him. I wonder if Luke sees a very attractive person out on the street.
GOUERY: Yeah.
SANCHEZ: What's a good pick up line to throw out? What is something that Luke might say to them?
GOUERY: Well, it depends, but if she's an American --
SANCHEZ: Yeah.
GOUERY: -- I have to -- you know, the charm is you have to be effortless.
SANCHEZ: Yes.
GOUERY: You don't have to pretend.
SANCHEZ: Right.
GOUERY: And my masterpiece, the most important thing to me is my accent. So I -- SANCHEZ: You play it up.
GOUERY: Yeah. I'm effortless. I just have to speak, to open my mouth.
HERIBERT: And just speak. Yeah, yeah. Just like, oh, nice.
GOUERY: Oh, bonjour. Do you want to go to a cafe?
You know, just like this American girls say to us, French.
HERIBERT: That's true.
GOUERY: That's true. Charming. But I cannot understand why.
SANCHEZ: That's the move. That's the move. I guess you maybe you just have to be French, right?
GOUERY: Yeah, yeah, I imagine.
SANCHEZ: I guess the most famous French pickup line I know. And you can help us with the accent.
HERIBERT: Okay.
SANCHEZ: Ole vous coucher avec moi --
HERIBERT: Ole, no. It's voulez-vous.
(LAUGHTER)
HERIBERT: No. Voulez vous? Do you want -- voulez vous?
SANCHEZ: Voulez vous.
HERIBERT: Coucher avec moi?
SANCHEZ: Coucher avec moi.
HERIBERT: Ce soir?
SANCHEZ: Ce soir?
HERIBERT: Well, we have a busy night ahead of us, Boris. So, it cannot be tonight for sure.
(LAUGHTER)
HERIBERT: We have fireworks in an hour, you guys.
I wanted to know if you could share maybe an anecdote from "Emily in Paris" or a little teasing for a season five?
GOUERY: Season five? No, you have to watch. But no, I have just one -- one anecdote. Because now you know, a lot of tourists come to Paris to see Paris because they want to see the place of Emily in Paris. So they organize tourism. HERIBERT: Tourists.
GOUERY: Yeah, tourism.
HERIBERT: Tourists.
GOUERY: And one day I was at the place and the car of the tourists arrived, and they say, it's -- we cannot believe that its fantastic. There is Luc. So, everyone come to me pretending and thinking it was --
HERIBERT: Part of the tour.
SANCHEZ: Yeah, part of the tour?
HERIBERT: Oh, that's amazing.
GOUERY: Yeah, yeah. So now I have to -- don't go too far. Too close to those places. You know, I'm afraid to --
SANCHEZ: Yeah, well. Hey. Yeah. People want to be around you. They want a part of the action.
You know who's in the middle of some action right now is Melissa Bell. She is actually ole -- voulez vous coucher avec moi ce soir?
HERIBERT: Yes.
SANCHEZ: At the Moulin Rouge -- at the Moulin Rouge.
And she's done a lot of reporting on how "Emily in Paris" has been so persuasive to bring Americans to the City of Love.
Melissa, what are you seeing where you are now
MELISSA BELL, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Just first of all, I have to pick up on what you guys have just been talking about. It is nuts. There are entire neighborhoods of Paris where you can barely walk for the red berets, as Luc was just saying. Bruno, rather.
They come and they go on this "Emily in Paris" tour, specifically to see the places where she lived, the places where she drank cafe picked up a chocolate. It is quite extraordinary to see just how successful it has been and the impact that it's had on the image of Paris.
And Boris. I am loving hearing the improvement in your French accent. Last year was the first year. It is getting better and better.
Here at the Moulin Rouge, this the iconic windmill behind me. It was created in 1889, the first place in Paris that had any electricity at all. Here it is tonight. The show is underway. We hope to bring you the French cancan live shortly.
SANCHEZ: Melissa, I've had a year to work on the accent. I would say it's gotten a little bit better as we await the fireworks to set off in Athens. Melissa Bell live at the iconic Moulin Rouge.
I mean, what can you say about Athens? It's the birthplace of democracy. You see the Parthenon right there? I'm hoping that they put on a spectacular fireworks show, much like the ones that we've already seen tonight in the Middle East. I think we're only a few seconds out, guys.
