If you're aching to know what Anderson Cooper is listening to on his iPod currently, we've got the scoop. In the past he enjoyed working out in the gym to The Clash, Johnny Cash, and The Hives. But lately he's been growing fonder and fonder of Mary J Blige, and can't get enough of her music in the gym and on his way to and from work. He's so enamored with Blige that he' trying to talk his mother Gloria Vanderbilt into inviting Mary to sing at her next big party. We hear that Mary knows about her famous fan and she's delighted.

There's still a chance that Anderson Cooper will have a scent of his own. We recently revealed that Tom Ford asked Anderson to become the spokesperson for a new cologne he's creating that he wanted to name after Cooper, but Anderson turned him down. Anderson told his fashion maven mom Gloria Vanderbilt about the offer and she LIKED the idea and pushed her son to give it some more thought. That's exactly what Anderson is doing, and if Tom Ford gets his way, "Coop" could be out by the holiday season.