Anderson Cooper is going full-beard ahead.
While the CNN anchor is known for his signature silver hair, he debuted a new look while on hiatus from the news network: a shock of silver beard.
“Heading back to work soon,” Anderson wrote alongside an Instagram Stories selfie Aug. 7. “Shave or keep?”
The 58-year-old gave a subtle smile for the camera in the pic, rocking a New York Yankees baseball cap, navy polo and black glasses along with his scruffy beard.
While he’s rarely sported a beard on air in the past, Anderson—who is dad to kids Wyatt Morgan5, and Sebastian Luke3—has been praised for his gray locks, with many calling him a silver fox.
“I don’t know how I got that,” he mused about the label on the Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa podcast in 2023. “I think somewhere it was written down, and then other people started writing it down.”
