Kelly Ripa has spent 22 years as the host of a single daytime talk show, now earning a salary in the range of $20 million a year. She not only got movie-star rich as the co-host of “Live!”; she’s part of TV history, in a league of legends — Regis Philbin, Phil Donahue, Jerry Springer and Oprah Winfrey — who changed TV as they greeted millions of stay-at-home moms and dads each day.
Generation Gap, the game show from Jimmy Kimmel and Mark Burnett, is finally getting a slot at ABC. Nearly three years after its order, the network will launch the series this July with Kelly Ripa as host. The show, which is produced by Kimmel’s Kimmelot, MGM Television and Ripa and Mark Consuelos’ Milojo, is a comedy quiz show that groups family members of different generations who must work together to answer questions about each other’s generations.
ABC is in early development on Pine Valley, a primetime version of the classic daytime soap opera All My Children. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are attached as executive producers under their Milojo Productions banner,
It’s striking that Live is enjoying continued boom times (its 33rd-season premiere in September registered some 2.66 million viewers) in a climate that has most richly rewarded, lately, its network mate The View, with its strongly opinionated political junkies. Live, airing two hours earlier at 9 a.m. in New York and with a softer mandate, has no politics in its DNA, though Ripa has ushered the nation through hard news.
While Ryan Seacrest was forced to take time off from the syndicated Live with Kelly and Ryan while suffering from “exhaustion,” his morning show co-host Kelly Ripa has been picking up the slack from a house in the Caribbean.
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Kelly Ripa called RyanSeacrest a “privilege to work with” on their Thursday show, days after his sexual harassment accuser went public.
A year after Michael after Strahan exited the syndicated Live morning show for Good Morning America,host Kelly Ripa introduced her permanent co-host. Veteran broadcaster Ryan Seacrest is the new co-host of the newly-rechristened Live with Kelly and Ryan.
A year after Michael Strahan’s messy exit, Kelly Ripa is poised to announce her permanent co-host on Monday’s edition of Live with Kelly. Ripa teased the news to come with a short video distributed on her social media platforms Sunday afternoon.
Since Michael Strahan bailed on the program on May 13, 2016, we’re officially past 10 months now — and currently at 66 different guest co-hosts. Why the big delay?
Live with Kelly has had 31 different guest co-hosts across 54 episodes since Michael Strahan bailed on Kelly Ripa — Here’s how their syndicated ratings have stacked up.
On the same day Michael Strahan made his full-time debut on Good Morning America, his former co-host Kelly Ripa cryptically teased a “big announcement.” The petite blond TV personality told fans Tuesday that she’d share some exciting news with them during Wednesday’s episode of Live with Kelly, though she declined to offer any further detail.
The Live with Kelly and Michael duo won the Daytime Emmy Award for best entertainment talk show host on Sunday, capping a tumultuous two weeks that began with Strahan’s announced departure for Good Morning America and Ripa’s reaction. Neither Ripa or Strahan showed up at the non-televised ceremony in Los Angeles to claim the award, their second consecutive one in the category for their syndicated show.
Will Kelly Ripa return to Live? How can ABC smooth relations between her and Michael Strahan before he heads to GMA? Whatever, everyone on screen is smiling as deliriously as possible.
Kelly Ripa’s unexplained absence came amid published reports that she felt blindsided and angered by co-host Michael Strahan’s departure to join Good Morning America fulltime. She hasn’t said that herself, and her spokeswoman, Lauren Auslander, did not immediately return messages inquiring about Ripa’s whereabouts.
NEW YORK (AP) — Kelly Ripa was absent from her syndicated daytime talk show Wednesday, the day after it was announced that co-host Michael Strahan was leaving to join Good […]
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Disney-ABC tried to keep the identify of Kelly Ripa’s new co-host secret, but the news leaked out a few weeks ago and few were suprised when the former New York Giant jogged on stage this morning and lifted Kelly in a bear hug.
Former NFL star Michael Strahan has been picked to partner with Kelly Ripa on her morning syndicated show, according to various reports.
By virtually every measure, Live With Kelly is faring better so far under Kelly Ripa (with a string of guest co-hosts) than it did at this point last year, when Regis Philbin was by her side.
