“Don’t take this as a bad sign – It’s Friday the 13th,” Kelly Ripa said on Michael Strahan’s last day co-hosting Live with Kelly and Michael. “It's your final day on the show and we all came today to celebrate you,” added Ripa, who wore a very somber, stunning black dress, instead of the florals she’s favored this…

Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly stopped by Live with Kelly and Michael today to promote her May-sweep interview with presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump. The special, Megyn Kelly Presents, will air on the Fox broadcast network. "You seemed to stay angry for months. Was that real, or was that strategy?" Kelly asks…

UPDATED, 3:30 PM: Disney-ABC has released the rest of Kelly Ripa’s guest co-host list for her first Michael Strahan-less week: Tuesday, May 17 – Empire star Jussie Smollett Wednesday, May 18 – Comedian Cedric the Entertainer Thursday, May 19 – ABC News anchor David Muir Friday, May 20 – Actor Daniel Dae Kim PREVIOUS, T…

UPDATE with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan reaction: Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan this morning walked out on stage each carrying an Emmy statuette, answering last night’s most pressing Daytime Emmy Awards question: “How will Kelly and Michael divide that Emmy?” While there has been a lot on which they have disagreed…

A screaming hairy armadillo gave Kelly Ripa headlines this morning at the expense of her soon-to-be-ex co-host Michael Strahan – and, of course, the armadillo – on Live with Kelly and Michael. Wildlife pitchman Peter Gros trotted out the little animal, who began to shriek, which we know from that time National…

The Daily Show thinks Lewis Black would make a perfect new co-host for Kelly Ripa on Live with Kelly and Exiting Michael. “I'd kick your ass myself I you were the size of the last guy who left that show,” Black says of departing co-host Michael Strahan, who announced two weeks ago he’s bailing to join Good Morning…

After a tumultuous week, it’s hard to imagine anyone on Live with Kelly & Michael being in a celebratory mood but Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan actually have a reason to celebrate — they are nominated for best entertainment host at the Daytime Emmy Awards which will be held this weekend in Los Angeles. And they are…

Michael Strahan will not continue to co-host Live with Kelly and Michael until September, as originally announced, and will instead exit the show on Friday, May 13. The change gives producers time to find his replacement, before Kelly Ripa’s contract comes up in ’17. The news follows Ripa’s return to Live this…

UPDATED with Kelly Ripa’s return to Live:  “Our long national nightmare is over,” Kelly Ripa said to a standing ovation, in making her return to Live with Kelly and Michael this morning. “I am fairly certain there are trained professional snipers with tranquilizer darts in case I drive too far off message,” Ripa…

Kelly Ripa tonight promised to be back to work on Tuesday. Ripa went MIA from Live with Kelly and Michael after learning Tuesday that her co-host Michael Strahan would be leaving the show in September to join Good Morning America full time. “I wanted to thank you all for giving me the time to process this new…

ABC is having an Ann Curry moment. It had hoped this week’s announcement that it had signed the very popular Live With Kelly And Michael host Michael Strahan as a co-anchor Good Morning America would generate positive press for the morning news program. Instead, ABC was left doing damage control over reports Good Morni…

Michael Strahan will have to get through tomorrow and Friday’s Live! with Kelly and Michael as gracefully as he can, as reports rage about co-host Kelly Ripa being angry over handling of news he’s leaving to join Good Morning America full time. A show spokesperson confirmed that Ripa will be out on Friday and Monday…