Kelly Ripa has Finally found her Co-host in her show ‘Live’ with Kelly! Ryan Seacrest will be the permanent host with Kelly Ripa!! Also clarifying the rumors regarding the show!!!

A new era in daytime television began Monday when Kelly Ripa introduced Ryan Seacrest as the permanent co-host joining her on "Live." MUST CREDIT: Pawel Kaminski, Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and TV Distribution

Our favorite TV host Kelly Ripa has finally found her co-host on Live after a year of tryouts and many rumors!
On Monday, Ripa announced happily that Ryan Seacrest will be her new co-host, more than one year after Michael Strahan’s surprise rapid exit.

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Kelly Ripa New Co-host

Kelly has now found her partner for our favorite show Live. It’s none other than Ryan Seacrest and all of us are loving it.

We know we love our hot and sexy Kelly but we have to admit that hottie Ryan has made our hearts throbbing and we are now more excited about the show.

Our #LiveKellyCohost @RyanSeacrest!!! Welcome to the family! #KellyandRyan #RyanSeacrest #seacrest #TuneinToLive pic.twitter.com/0OOIGJSnIR
— LIVE with Kelly (@LiveKelly) May 1, 2017

Well, it’s not the first time Seacrest is hosting the show as he has been to many shows and hosted a lot more than we can even begin and now the Live gig will be Ryan’s 45th job.

It’s a joke, of course, but he is still hosting 102.7 KIIS-FM, is a producer of Keeping Up With the Kardashians and J.Lo’s NBC cop show Shades of Blue (among other TV programs), and a host of several red carpets shows during award season, and, of course, also the host of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve every Dec. 31.

So excited to join this show!! @KellyRipa crushes every morning… one of my favorite people ever #livekellyryan
— Ryan Seacrest (@RyanSeacrest) May 1, 2017

For his first-ever Live episode as the permanent co-host, Ryan Seacrest chose to wear a tan blazer and cream-colored pants.

Last April, Michael Strahan announced that he had accepted a full-time job as co-anchor at Good Morning America. Hence he left Kelly’s show.

Fittingly, his last episode was Friday, May 13, which, according to Kelly at the time, was not bad luck:

“Guys, hi! Don’t take this as a bad sign. It’s Friday the 13th! But 13 is a lucky number.”

Also read Ryan Seacrest and Shayna Taylor have ended their seven years’ old on-off relationship!

Rumor of the show Live

But there was a rumor as well that Kelly was against Ryan as her co-host but the news turned out to be false. The gossip cop figured out the truth about the story.

The absurd story comes courtesy of RadarOnline. The often disproven sites allege in a news article that Ripa did not want Seacrest, and was trying to get “someone she could boss around.”

While the outlet puts out the allegation, it offers no proof or even the names of people she would have preferred to be her co-host. Instead, the webloid simply makes claims about Kelly Ripa preferring a cohost who was not as “big of a star as she is.”

Ripa was quite upset when Michael Strahan left “Live” for “Good Morning America” without giving her much advance notice. Part of her anger was directed at ABC for orchestrating Strahan’s switch.

Although the news seems an absolute joke and how genuinely happy Ripa looked when announcing Seacrest as her “Live” co-host, Gossip Cop still counter-checked with sources close to all the parties involved. Ripa’s source tells that she was “overjoyed” he accepted the offer.

Meanwhile, an ABC insider confirms,

“Kelly was in charge from the beginning and glad everything worked out with [Ryan].”

Short Bio on Kelly Ripa

Kelly Maria Ripa is an American actress, dancer, talk show host, and television producer. Ripa first became known for her portrayal of Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera, All My Children, between 1990 and 2002. She is best known as the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show, Live! with Kelly, in various formats since 2001.

She also is known for her role as Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom, Hope & Faith, from 2003 to 2006. Additionally, Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York-based production company, Milojo. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.

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