Kelly Ripa on Who She'd Want to Co-Host 'Live' Besides Ryan Seacrest
Kelly Ripa has worked with several co-hosts in her reign on daytime TV, most recently Ryan Seacrest, who sits alongside her for Seacrest, 47, joined the show in 2017 following Michael Strahan's feud-filled exit, and the pair seem to get along well. But on Thursday's Ripa, 51, was asked by some fans who her second picks for co-host were at the time. «It's so much a deeper discussion, and it has so little, actually, to do with me,» Ripa said of the selection process, which took a year before Seacrest was chosen. Referencing her longtime friends and fellow TV personalities, Andy Cohen and Anderson Cooper, Ripa said, «I love my ACs, of course, but they have jobs.» She also mentioned her actor husband, Mark Consuelos, saying, «My MC I love, but he had a job too.