{"id":2268014,"date":"2026-02-05T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2268014"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:32:18","slug":"the-biggest-live-controversies-ever-as-kelly-ripas-tenure-hits-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-biggest-live-controversies-ever-as-kelly-ripas-tenure-hits-25-years\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest \u2018Live\u2019 Controversies Ever, as Kelly Ripa\u2019s Tenure Hits 25 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cShe\u2019s here, and she ain\u2019t leavin\u2019!\u201d Regis Philbin<\/a> exclaimed 25 years ago, as he welcomed Kelly Ripa<\/a> as his new Live cohost on February 5, 2001. Ripa<\/a>, then 30 and still a star of All My Children<\/a>, won the job with her guest-cohosting gigs on the morning talk show. \u201cIt became obvious to everyone that Kelly Ripa should be the one here on a permanent basis,\u201d Philbin said. And thus the show once known as Live with Regis<\/a> and Kathie Lee<\/a> and then Live With Regis<\/a> became Live With Regis and Kelly\u2026 with \u201cKelly\u201d printed in a smaller typeface as a demand from higher-ups, Ripa later said in her memoir. The negotiation…<\/div>\n

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\u201cShe\u2019s here, and she ain\u2019t leavin\u2019!\u201d 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. \u201cIt became obvious to everyone that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2268015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2268014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/The-Biggest-\u2018Live-Controversies-Ever-as-Kelly-Ripas-Tenure-Hits.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2268016,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268014\/revisions\/2268016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2268015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}