Where Is Kelly Ripa? Talk Show Host on Break From ‘Live With Kelly and Ryan’
After a week of Live with Kelly and Ryan without Kelly Ripa, fans are wondering where the co-host is.
When viewers tuned in on Monday, March 22, Ripa seemed to be unexpectedly awol, and has been since. But according to a source close to the show, there is no reason for concern: Ripa is merely taking her annual two-week spring break to be with her family.
Rumors started to fly given there had been no mention of her break prior to her leaving, just a parade of guests co-hosts: Maria Menounos, Ali Wentworth, and Harry Connick Jr. have shared the desk alongside Ryan Seacrest.
The week of March 29 has already kicked off with a Monday rerun with Ripa and Seacrest, which featured Hugh Grant promoting the HBO limited series The Undoing (an appearance from November 2020). The rest of the week’s lineup — including Lana Condor discussing To All the Boys: Always and Forever, Priyanka Chopra Jonas promoting The White Tiger, Ralph Macchio on Cobra Kai, Tim Allen talking about Last Man Standing, and Zendaya on Malcolm & Marie — are also reruns.
Plans are for Kelly to be back for the week of April 5.
The show’s ratings have been incredibly strong. Live is now has ranked No. 1 in all of Daytime in the key Women 25-54 for more than a year (the 53 weeks includes 12 weeks of ties), according to ABC. In syndication, it remains the 2020-21 season’s No. 1 syndicated talk show across the board among total viewers, household rating and with the key Women 18-49 and Women 25-54 demos.
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The show has no redeeming quality like Kelly Clarkson. Ripa and Ryan are boring and everything is about them.
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Ripa is always about ripa. Like people like hearing about her husbands package. Got bettet things to do than waste my time watching this garbage.
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They are funny!
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they are scripted, they arent funny
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WHO CARES???
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She is always pulling on her sleeves and combing thru her hair. She seems self-conscious about what she's wearing and about her hair. She is not as funny as she used to be because she's too worried about how she looks in the camera. She is always pulling up and down on her sleeves and commenting about what she's wearing. She seems uncomfortable. I don't know what's going on with her but she has never been that nervous before.
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I used to really enjoy Kelly and Ryan......
Kelly always picking her nails, posture and talk all lead me to believe she is bored.
Not pretty to watch! ;(
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I am Very upset that Kelly and Ryan are on at noon . Why where they taken off at 9AM? Early morning is a better time. I have watched them for years.
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I have watcher her from the beginning but now I am disappointed she is never there it started when they started doing 4 days a week Friday was recorded now they are hardly both together I’m wondering if today April 5 will the be back after nearly a month of Kelly away ? ?
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