Kelly Ripa Refusing To Show Up To ‘Live! With Kelly & Michael’

This whole situation is crazy! It was announced that Michael Strahan is leaving Live! With Kelly And Michael in the fall to join GMA full time. It’s also being reported that his co-host of four years, Kelly Ripa, didn’t find out until the rest of the world did. When it was announced. There’s a ton of speculation now…who’s gonna be the next co-host, is Good Morning America going to extend to the 9am hour (which would bump Live!), and why was skip work today? When the doors to the show opened Wednesday morning, Kelly was absent, and the crowd wasn’t told till minutes before. Sources say, “Kelly told ABC she wasn’t coming in last night. They don’t know yet when she’ll be back.”

ABC confirms that Kelly Ripa won’t be back on #LiveWithKellyandMichael until next Tuesday at the earliest.

— Debra Birnbaum (@debrabirnbaum) April 20, 2016