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Kelly Ripa
Kelly Maria Ripa (/ˈrɪpə/; born October 2, 1970) is an American actress and talk show host. Since 2001, she has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Mark in various formats. Her co-hosts have included Regis Philbin, Michael Strahan, Ryan Seacrest, and her husband Mark Consuelos.
As an actress, Ripa's best known roles include Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children (1990–2002, 2010) and Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003–2006). Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York–based production company, Milojo. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.
Kelly Maria Ripa was born in Stratford, New Jersey to Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. Ripa grew up Catholic. She grew up in nearby Berlin, New Jersey. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children's book author. She was on a local PHL17 dance show, called Dancin' on Air, before it got picked up by USA Network and was renamed Dance Party USA. Her father, a Democrat, has been the county clerk for Camden County since June 2009.
Ripa graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. During high school she was a cheerleader and was encouraged by her drama teacher to pursue acting. "I owe so much of my career to Jim Boeckle," she said. "He thought I was a natural performer and so he gave me the lead in the next show." She starred in local theater productions and was discovered while performing in The Ugly Duckling during her senior year. She attended Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey studying psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
Aside from local TV gigs, Ripa's first national television exposure came in 1986 when she appeared as a regular dancer on Dancin' On Air, leading into Dance Party USA. Her career goal at the time was to be a newscaster and she often did the cast news reports.[citation needed]
Ripa was cast in her first major acting role in 1990 as Hayley Vaughan, a troubled party girl, on All My Children. She concluded her 12-year role in 2002, but returned for two episodes in 2010 to help celebrate the soap opera's 40th anniversary.
After co-host Kathie Lee Gifford's final show on Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, Regis Philbin began holding on-air auditions to find her replacement. In his autobiography, How I Got This Way, Philbin says of discovering Ripa:
There was one guest we'd had on with us a few years before who had [a certain sparkle]. Hers was a natural, quick-witted, unaffected, confident, fun-loving kind of sparkle that both [Michael] Gelman and I remembered very well. We decided to invite her back, this time to consider her as a possible co-host. So that was when this smiling, petite ball of fire named Kelly Ripa made her return to Live! for a test run at the rotating, up-for-grabs hot seat to my left... my God, who knew what spontaneous combustion we'd make together?
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Kelly Ripa
Kelly Maria Ripa (/ˈrɪpə/; born October 2, 1970) is an American actress and talk show host. Since 2001, she has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Mark in various formats. Her co-hosts have included Regis Philbin, Michael Strahan, Ryan Seacrest, and her husband Mark Consuelos.
As an actress, Ripa's best known roles include Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children (1990–2002, 2010) and Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003–2006). Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York–based production company, Milojo. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.
Kelly Maria Ripa was born in Stratford, New Jersey to Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. Ripa grew up Catholic. She grew up in nearby Berlin, New Jersey. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children's book author. She was on a local PHL17 dance show, called Dancin' on Air, before it got picked up by USA Network and was renamed Dance Party USA. Her father, a Democrat, has been the county clerk for Camden County since June 2009.
Ripa graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. During high school she was a cheerleader and was encouraged by her drama teacher to pursue acting. "I owe so much of my career to Jim Boeckle," she said. "He thought I was a natural performer and so he gave me the lead in the next show." She starred in local theater productions and was discovered while performing in The Ugly Duckling during her senior year. She attended Camden County College in Blackwood, New Jersey studying psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
Aside from local TV gigs, Ripa's first national television exposure came in 1986 when she appeared as a regular dancer on Dancin' On Air, leading into Dance Party USA. Her career goal at the time was to be a newscaster and she often did the cast news reports.[citation needed]
Ripa was cast in her first major acting role in 1990 as Hayley Vaughan, a troubled party girl, on All My Children. She concluded her 12-year role in 2002, but returned for two episodes in 2010 to help celebrate the soap opera's 40th anniversary.
After co-host Kathie Lee Gifford's final show on Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, Regis Philbin began holding on-air auditions to find her replacement. In his autobiography, How I Got This Way, Philbin says of discovering Ripa:
There was one guest we'd had on with us a few years before who had [a certain sparkle]. Hers was a natural, quick-witted, unaffected, confident, fun-loving kind of sparkle that both [Michael] Gelman and I remembered very well. We decided to invite her back, this time to consider her as a possible co-host. So that was when this smiling, petite ball of fire named Kelly Ripa made her return to Live! for a test run at the rotating, up-for-grabs hot seat to my left... my God, who knew what spontaneous combustion we'd make together?