After Michael Strahan announced his hasty departure from Live!
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Regis’s remarks about Kelly and Michael come just weeks after the former co-host admitted that he hasn’t actually spoken to Kelly Ripa since he quit in 2011.
WATCH: Kelly Ripa Wraps Up First Week Back to Live! So executives will need to negotiate a new deal with Ripa after they find a co-host. “It’s in the very early stages”. So when they won the Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host, it fell to another Emmy victor to fill in. With Kelly and Michael.
Upon her return, she assured the show’s live audience that fences had been mended, but insisted that ABC handled the situation poorly, and urged the network to be more forthright, communicative and respectful.
Cohen himself has talked about how flawless Cooper would be, and while Ripa has stayed quiet on the subject she was seen leaving her home on Tuesday when she returned to work carrying a copy of the memoir the CNN anchor wrote with Vanderbilt, The Rainbow Comes and Goes. “Kelly and Michael will share it!”
A late-night host will be waking up to briefly fill Michael Strahan’s seat alongside Kelly Ripa after he leaves Live!
Other winners included CBS Sunday Morning, for best morning show, The Price is Right, also on CBS, for best gameshow and ABC’s General Hospital for best directing team on a drama series. She then turned to her co-host, 44, and said, “Cheers to you” while tapping his award with hers.
Ripa also explained why the New York-based co-hosts did not attend the awards ceremony held in Los Angeles, California.
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Their win comes on the heels of Strahan’s announcement he will be departing the show on May 13.
