Kelly Ripa Recalls Being Put in 'Janitor's Closet' and Denied an Office During First Years Co-Hosting 'Live!'
etonline.comKelly Ripa is opening up about her difficult early years at The longtime co-host of the daytime talk show graces one of five Power of Women covers for where she reflected on which she joined in 2001.
According to Ripa, 52, her early days at the show were not easy. For one, she claimed she didn't have a permanent office at the studio, even though she had already been co-hosting the show with the late Regis Philbin for several years.«It was the strangest experience I've ever had in my life,» she tells . «I was told that I couldn't have an office.
It didn't make a whole lot of sense, especially because there were empty offices that I could have easily occupied.»Instead, she allegedly set up shop in an empty janitor's closet after her fourth year on the show. «They finally cleaned out the closet and put a desk in there for me,» Ripa recalls. «And so I was working in the janitor's closet with a desk so that I could have a place to put things.»She and Philbin co-hosted together for a decade before he departed in 2011.
Even after his exit, Ripa told the publication she was still denied a real office. «They said, ‘Oh, no, we’re saving that.’ And I said, ‘Saving it for what?’ And they go, ‘Well, for when the new guy comes.' And I looked at them, and I said, ‘I am the new guy.
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