News. “We are a family and I look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday morning”.
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She was scheduled to be out on Friday and Monday for a 20th anniversary vacation with her husband and family.
While there were concerns and rumors that Kelly Ripa was not going to return to Live! until Michael Strahan was gone, sources say that she is contractually obligated to do the show.
Although multiple reports claim Strahan and Ripa hated each other even before the news of his exit broke, it sounds like the former athlete is doing everything he can to smooth over tensions.
“Diplomatic that Kelly is, she spoke nicely in an email later – “(Sorry for this late Friday night email)”, she said in the mail. “With Kelly and Michael”, Michael Strahan has opened up about how his co-host has helped him through the show for the past years.
Strahan informed her around 10:30 A.M. on Tuesday, after their 9 A.M. show, and the news leaked out around 11 A.M. “She’s been at that job for 15 years”, Cohen added. “She is actually miserable with the show, has been for a while now…They have not [been] getting along that well recently, but this [takes] the cake”.
The source went on to say; ‘Staff are upset that she’s not there. With Kelly and Michael.
That said, Strahan continues to deny that he and Ripa are fighting. Not long after that, speculation about the status of Ripa and Strahan’s relationship started popping up: One source toldEntertainment Tonight that while the duo got along well in the beginning, lately things have been tense between the two.
‘They blame Disney management and want her to come back to work as they see her as the star of the show who also has their back’.
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Until Tuesday’s show, neither Michael Gelman the Executive Producer not Kelly Ripa was aware of Strahan’s leaving the show. “Didn’t I tell you this was going to happen?”Whether Strahan might leave earlier than September is “a conversation that has not been had yet”.
