‘Live With Kelly and Mark’ Hosts Preview Their Post-Oscar Special — and Parody That Nicole Kidman AMC Spot (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comMichael Schneider Variety Editor at Large It’s become an Oscars tradition for Kelly Ripa: The “Live With Kelly & Mark” host is positioned back stage to grab the very first interview with a newly minted winner.
Every year, those winners are so wrapped up in the moment that they excitedly invite Ripa to appear in their next project or join in on their next vacation.
And then they don’t follow through. “Never. I have not gotten a single role and I’ve not been taken on a single vacation,” she told Variety. “When you interview people after they just received the greatest achievement of their career, they say things that they would not ordinarily say.
And then if you bump into the celebrity a couple of months later, they have no recollection of ever having seen us backstage!” “Live with Kelly & Mark” will do it once again with their annual live “After the Oscars” episode on Monday, March 11 from Hollywood’s Dolby Theater — just hours after the Oscars wrapped in the same location.
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