“She’s here, and she ain’t leavin’!” Regis Philbin exclaimed 25 years ago, as he welcomed Kelly Ripa as his new Live cohost on February 5, 2001. Ripa, then 30 and still a star of All My Children, won the job with her guest-cohosting gigs on the morning talk show. “It became obvious to everyone that Kelly Ripa should be the one here on a permanent basis,” Philbin said. And thus the show once known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee and then Live With Regis became Live With Regis and Kelly… with “Kelly” printed in a smaller typeface as a demand from higher-ups, Ripa later said in her memoir. The negotiation…
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