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Kelly Ripa: 5 Fun Facts You Didn’t Know About the ‘Live! With Kelly and Mark’ Cohost
Kelly Ripa shares a lot of her life during Live! With Mark and Kelly, but the daytime TV host exclusively opened up to Closer about some little-known facts.
Get back to the Kelly Ripa’s first TV appearance was in the soap opera All My Children in 1990, but since then the New Jersey native has become one of the most popular daytime talk show hosts on air. “It was after my fourth year [on the show] that they finally cleaned out the closet and put a desk in there for me,” says Kelly, who joined Live! “And so I was working in the janitor’s closet with a desk so that I could have a place to put things.” After her cohost Regis Philbin retired in 2011, she took matters into her own hands and “just moved my things.
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