In her new book, KellyRipa opens up about personal challenges with humor and shares behind-the-scenes looks at her life with various high-profile colleagues. She also shares her long struggle with anxiety.
elicits an enthusiastic, favorable response. Known for her work on “Live with Regis and Kelly” — which became “Live with Kelly and Michael” and then “Live with Kelly and Ryan” when Ryan Seacrest hit the scene — the beloved morning show host can now add author to her list of accomplishments.,” out Tuesday, is a collection of essays about Ripa’s life both on and off-screen.
Ripa also writes about her time working with talk show host Regis Philbin. When she joined the show in 2001, she was told to submit to whatever Philbin wanted, only speak when he wasn’t and suffer through the disrespectful way he treated her. “Live Wire” isn’t just stories of personal strife and unfair work environments. Ripa shares laugh-out-loud stories about navigating her intensely public life, like meeting her now-husband Mark Consuelos wearing hair curlers with toothpaste slathered on a pimple or trying to get Richard Gere’s attention as he helped up a woman who’d fallen down.
“I didn't realize the way I wedged it in when I opened the bag that it would spring forth with such a velocity. People were more horrified to learn it was a tampon than an actual projectile of some kind,” she says. And I thought it would have made everyone feel better had it just been a grenade.”
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