It’s been almost two decades since Kelly Ripa took over as co-host of the show now known as “Live With Kelly and Ryan”; her 20th anniversary comes in February. This time 20 years ago, Ripa says, sh…
It’s been almost two decades since Kelly Ripa took over as co-host of the show now known as “”; her 20th anniversary comes in February. This time 20 years ago, Ripa says, she was sure that the job she’d end up getting hired for was an impossible one. “I am the girl that when Kathie Lee [Gifford] left, thought, ‘Whoever takes over for her, I feel sorry for her. Nobody can do that job,’” she says. “I never in my wildest thought process thought it would be me.
In some ways, the at-home tapings were liberating — at least for the “Live” audience. “People really loved it because they felt it was intimate,” Ripa says. “Once in a while, I’d tilt the computer and you’d see Mark [Consuelos, her husband] sleeping in bed. It was a very exciting way of doing business.”
It’s all part of what Ripa calls “my overall willingness to let all my foibles unfold and put all of my imperfections out there” — which in recent years has made an intriguing contrast with Seacrest’s crisper and less personal emcee image. For Ripa, “it took a few years to look directly into the camera,” given her acting background. The “American Idol” host is “so polished and I’m so not,” she says.
It’s striking that “Live” is enjoying continued boom times 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 before: On Sept. 11, 2001, for instance, she — fresh from maternity leave — and Philbin took over broadcasting the news for ABC.
Ripa’s own battles have included, for example, her efforts to be taken seriously as a producer. “I read 36 books a year,” she says, and recently plucked the novel “Mexican Gothic” by Silvia Moreno-Garcia for a drama to be produced by Hulu and ABC Signature.
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