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  • Blake Lively: New Mom Steps Out For New York Fashion Week and She Looks Amazing

    Blake Lively made an appearance Thursday at New York Fashion Week and the new mom was absolutely glowing.

    The Gabriela Cadena show was the scene for Blake Lively’s stunning public appearance, wearing a black and white dress paired with a yellow clutch bag.

    The happy new momma, who welcomed her first daughter with husband Ryan Reynolds less than two months ago, posed for photographers before entering the show, looking very much like she should be the one strutting her slender, statuesque figure on the catwalk in her Gabriela Cadena body con dress, with her beautiful blonde hair cascading over her shoulders.

    Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have not officially revealed the name of their little bundle of joy, but E! Online reported that they named their baby girl James.

    Notoriously hush-hush about their private lives, Ryan Reynolds did recently share his joy and the new experiences as a new proud papa.

    “I’m happily not getting any sleep,” he told Kelly Ripa during an appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael earlier this month. “These days I just sort of think of blinking as taking tiny little naps all day.”

    Like many new parents, Ryan Reynolds said their lack of sleep comes with much joy and acceptance.

    “It’s what you do,” said Reynolds. “You’re up all night, but it’s weird — you’re, like, happy about it in a strange way. If anything else woke up every 45 minutes during the night, demanding to see my wife’s breasts, you kill it. But, you know, a baby, you’re like, ‘Aw, woohoo!’”

  • The Rock: Dwayne Johnson Sings Christmas Song in Onesie

    The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson, sang a hilarious rendition of ‘Here Comes Santa Claus’ while a guest on Live! With Kelly and Michael on Wednesday. Even better, he sang the song while wearing a onesie.

    Johnson competed with Kelly Ripa’s co-host Michael Strahan in a Christmas karaoke singing duel. The Rock even screamed out, ‘I’m in a onesie!’ halfway through his song.

    He later posted to Instagram, sharing the fun he had with Kelly and Michael with all his fans.

    The Rock captioned his post, “Here comes Santa Claus, here comes Santa Claus right down Santa Claus lane…” #KaraokeKING #LIVEWithKellyAndMichael #ChristmasEveShow #RealGsWearOnesies.”

    Entertainment Weekly writes that they think Dwayne Johnson actually sounded pretty good while belting out ‘Here Comes Santa Claus.’ Might he add recording artist to his repertoire of talents one day soon?

    Check his performance out for yourself and see if you think there’s a hit album in his future.

    If you don’t think The Rock shows off his amazing sense of humor while singing karaoke, then check out the Christmas card he sent his friends.

    Maybe stand-up comic is a more viable option than recording artist?

  • Kelly Ripa: How She Keeps Her Marriage Spicy

    Kelly Ripa of Live! With Kelly and Michael fame has been married to Mark Consuelos since 1996. For some couples that might be things are getting a little stale. Not so for Ripa and Consuelos, however, and she shared a bit about it during a conversation with Andy Cohen recently.

    “There’s no secret! We just like each other a lot,” Ripa, 44, explained. “I really–I love my husband. I think he’s awesome. We’ve been together a long time and we try to do spicy things together all the time,” she said.

    Ripa’s answer wasn’t as juicy as Cohen had hoped, which prompted him to lead in with a follow-up remark.

    “I heard you say recently that you must have sex as much as possible to keep your relationship going,” he said.

    “I believe I said that to you in a private conversation,” she replied. “I fundamentally believe that the more you do it the more you do it and the less you do it the less you do it.”

    It seems like Kelly Ripa knows how to make her marriage sizzle while cooling Andy Cohen down in a matter of seconds.

    Kelly and Mark have been married since 1996, and are the parents of three children. Michael is 17, Joaquin is 11, and daughter Lola is 13.

    With three kids and her talk show she co-hosts with Michael Strahan, Kelly Ripa is one busy woman. If she can keep sizzle in her marriage with all that going on, she needs to write a book and share her tips with other busy moms.

    Don’t you love how Kelly shared just enough with Andy Cohen to keep things interesting, without divulging personal details about her marriage and sex life? She has always been one very classy lady.

  • Kelly Ripa Doesn’t Care If Her Daughter Likes Her

    All parents struggle with disciplining their children. While it seems like something that would be fairly simple, many parents aren’t strict with their children because they are afraid it will cause them not to like them.

    Kelly Ripa said she isn’t one of those parents and she doesn’t care if her daughter doesn’t like her or gets mad at her when she is disciplined.

    She recently said that she had to take her daughter Lola’s phone and computer away from her because she was misbehaving. She also said that it left Lola very upset with her mother.

    “She recently lost her computer and phone privileges, so it’s like taking away oxygen,” Ripa said on her show.

    “We are like very fair parents and we will give you certain freedoms,” she continued. “When you want privacy in a not-private world—like, you can’t have privacy and be on Instagram. I’m sorry, that’s not how it works. Privacy is for if you want to write a letter or write in your journal, I’m not going to read that. But if you want to tweet about what a pain in the butt your mom is, I’m gonna see that.”

    Ripa explained that her daughter was caught playing online when she was supposed to be studying and that the punishment was losing her phone and computer privileges.

    She also admitted that she found out Lola was playing on her phone instead of studying by snooping around in her room, and said she may not have went about it the right way.

    “No, I don’t think she likes me, but I don’t care,” Kelly said. “I’m like, ‘I’m not your friend, I’m your mom. I’m not your friend.’”

    Do you think more parents should feel the same as Kelly Ripa?

  • Kelly Ripa Takes Away Daughter’s Phone, Computer

    Kelly Ripa is a lot more like the average mom than fans may think. Sure, she appears on TV weekday mornings alongside Michael Strahan on Live! With Kelly and Michael. And she advertises Colgate toothpaste products on network TV as well. But the former soap opera star is still a mom–to three children–and she sets some hard and fast rules that they have to follow.

    This past week found Kelly as a guest on another talk show–The Wendy Williams Show–where she opened up about parenting her teenage daughter, Lola.

    “She recently lost her computer and phone privileges, so it’s like taking away oxygen,” Kelly Ripa explained. Hubby Mark Consuelos had touched on the story with Williams prior to Kelly joining the stage, but he didn’t divulge quite as much information.

    Ripa was careful not to say too much that might hurt her daughter, however. When asked what Lola had done to deserve such a punishment, Kelly chose her words rather carefully–saying she didn’t do anything crazy. Instead she shared that Lola just “broke the rules.”

    “We are like very fair parents and we will give you certain freedoms,” Kelly Ripa continued. “When you want privacy in a not-private world—like, you can’t have privacy and be on Instagram. I’m sorry, that’s not how it works. Privacy is for if you want to write a letter or write in your journal, I’m not going to read that. But if you want to tweet about what a pain in the butt your mom is, I’m gonna see that.”

    Oh, dear. Did Lola do that?

    Not sure about that one. But Kelly did catch her playing with her phone when she was supposed to be studying instead.

    “I walked into her room and she wasn’t there,” Ripa recalled,” but there was her phone and it’s not supposed to be there during study hours. So I was like,” she mimed leaning over innocently, ‘”let me just dial in her code’…She knows I know her code, but she doesn’t think I would ever abuse that privilege.”

    Lola was apparently showering when Mom found the found. That can make for a very upset 13-year-old girl–especially when Mom finds her Instagram posts.

    “No, I don’t think she likes me, but I don’t care,” Kelly said. “I’m like, ‘I’m not your friend, I’m your mom. I’m not your friend.’”

    Wendy Williams asked Kelly Ripa if she ever felt pressured to appear nice all the time–like she is on her show.

    “I just feel an obligation as her mom to keep her living in the real world. I don’t care who you are or what you do, if your’e a mom you’re a mom. Everybody’s a mom. Beyoncé’s a mom, you’re a mom, I’m a mom—do you like the way I lumped myself into that group?”

    Kelly Ripa seems to be a very grounded mom. And her daughter Lola is presently a bit ‘grounded’ herself–at least from using her phone and her computer. Ripa and Mark Consuelos are good, hands-on parents who–even though they live in the limelight–have long managed to put their children and their marriage first. They set a fine example for celebrity parents everywhere.

  • Sofia Vergara on Her ‘Very Hot’ Man, Joe Manganiello

    It’s pretty obvious the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about Sofia Vergara and her beau, Joe Manganiello.

    The 42-year-old Modern Family star didn’t hesitate to voice what we’ve all been thinking while on a visit to the Live! With Kelly and Michael show on Thursday.

    When hosts Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan asked the four-time Emmy nominee how things were going with her hunk, Vergara didn’t skip a beat.

    “Well, he’s very hot,” she gushed.

    Bam! There you have it folks!

    After getting that not-so-much breaking news out, she went on to tell the co-hosts what she loves about the True Blood star.

    “He’s a great guy, he’s very funny,” she said. “And he’s very entertaining which is very important for me because I need to be with somebody that knows how to have fun because I like to have fun.”

    Strahan let Vergara know that the couple now has a nickname, “Jofia,” to which the beauty replied, “now I know it’s going to last.”

    Ripa told Vergara what the rest of us have been thinking ever since the hot stars became a hot couple.

    “You two are the perfect couple,” Ripa said. “If I were you, I would put mirrors everywhere…I’d be like, ‘Let’s just look at ourselves right now.’”

    “Yeah that’s all we do,” Vergara joked, “When we’re hanging out, we don’t watch TV, we just watch ourselves.”

    Ripa then suggested that the two cover themselves in cake and just look at each other, but Vergara shot that idea down rather quickly.

    “He cannot eat that much cake. I eat it for him, because he’s training.”

    The day before her appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael , Vergara threw a little curve ball by stepping out in New York City with her former fiancé, Nick Loeb.

    No scandal here. They’re reportedly just good friends.

  • Kelly Ripa Sells Penthouse For $20 Million

    Kelly Ripa Sells Penthouse For $20 Million

    Kelly Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have finally sold their lavish SoHo penthouse.

    While they did not get their asking price of $24.5 million, they did receive a whopping $20 million for their Manhattan pad located at 76 Crosby Street.

    The buyer is one of the top real estate agents in New York City Alex Adjmi, who owns several large retail properties.

    According to the Daily News, Adjimi was represented by brokers Vanessa Tawil and Lorette Zoitos of the Corcoran Group, who said that he wanted to purchase the property as an investment to generate rental income.

    The Live! With Kelly and Michael host and Consuelos put their 6,792 square-foot home on the market last January after spending the previous two years renovating. The home includes five-bedrooms and four-bathrooms, and features white oak floors, and an outdoor fireplace, shower and hot tub on the 2500 square-foot rooftop terrace.

    According to Zillow.com, the master bedroom has been described as the “ultimate retreat, with two walk-in closets, soaking tub and steam shower.”

    The couple purchased the home together in 2005 for $9.5 million.

    Ripa, who signed a five-year contract with the morning show in 2011, and her hubby also own another home in Southampton, New York.

  • Wendy Williams Show Back for New Season in 1st Place

    The Wendy Williams Show is back for a brand new season–its sixth–and has earned the coveted top spot in the daytime talk show demographic of women in the ages 25 to 54 bracket. Way to go, Wendy. That’s quite an honor, seeing as how she beat out shows like Ellen, Dr. Phil, and Live! With Kelly and Michael. Madam Noire reports the show has seen a fifty percent increase in ratings since season five.

    The Wendy Williams Show distributors, Mort Marcu and Ira Bernstein–also co-presidents of Debmar-Mercury–issued a statement to the media regarding the show’s success.

    “This is an amazing accomplishment. To have the No. 1 show in the category most important to advertisers, a record-setting household performance and phenomenal year-to-year growth is astounding. It is a lasting testament to Wendy, their fantastic team and the many stations across the country that have believed so strongly in Wendy. We couldn’t be more thrilled,” the statement read.

    App.com says of Wendy Williams, “She keeps her fingers on the pulse of celebs, from the Kardashians to Chris Brown. Last October, she said she’d eat crow if Kim Kardashian and Kanye West actually got married and stayed together longer than the 72 days Kardashian was previously wed to basketball player Kris Humphries.”

    “I am a woman of my word,” said Williams during a conference call with the press last week. “I stopped at a red light. I was driving the other day and looked to my left and saw a crow crossing the street. I said, ‘Oh my gosh, they are so small. They have very little meat.’”

    In recent days the Wendy Williams Show has hyped viewers–and the press–by Wendy’s revelation that she has been treated in the past by the same doctor who performed the throat procedure on Joan Rivers–the one that ultimately cost the comedienne her life. Williams saw the doctor last summer.

    Wendy Williams assured her fans that Gwen Korovin–the doctor in the Joan Rivers case–didn’t have to operate on her.

    “Thank god!” she added.

    Even more interesting, however, is this.

    “She doesn’t take insurance! Believe me, I gagged about that. Fortunately, because I went to see her on TV time, TV paid for it. Although, that special was a Wendy Williams production so somehow, I paid for it!” the talk show host said.

    Are you a fan of the Wendy Williams Show? Does it surprise you that she has beat out Ellen DeGeneres, Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan, and Dr. Oz for the daytime women’s 25 to 54-year-old age bracket?

    Best wishes to Wendy Williams as she embarks on what will no doubt be a highly successful sixth season of her show.

  • Kelly Ripa Dishes On Neil Patrick Harris’ Wedding

    Kelly Ripa was invited to the wedding of Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka and she must have really enjoyed herself, because she cannot stop talking about it.

    On the Monday episode of Live! With Kelly And Michael, Kelly couldn’t wait to talk about the wedding.

    “I spent the weekend, in Italy,” Ripa, 43, told her co-host Michael Strahan. “I went to a destination wedding… the wedding of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka,” she continued as the room erupted into cheers. “They got married, yes!”

    Kelly went on to say that Neil and David had planned the wedding as a private ceremony that only included close friends and family members.

    She even joked that they probably didn’t want her talking about it.

    “Neil said I could talk about it,” Ripa quicky added.

    “It was a beautiful family affair in Perugia, Italy. They rented a castle — or I think they rented it. I hope we didn’t break into a castle and just stayed there,” Ripa recalled. “Sir Elton John performed. There were fireworks. The food was amazing. There were magic tricks, because, you know Neil is way into magic. Their wedding vows were so beautiful.”

    Kelly said that the best part of the ceremony was the part that didn’t go according to plans and involved the couple’s two young children, Gideon and Harper.

    “Harper was going to be the flower girl and Gideon was going to be the ring bearer,” Ripa revealed.

    Gideon apparently didn’t think being the ring bearer sounded like too much fun so he gave himself a different role in the wedding.

    “He said, ‘I don’t want to be the ring bearer. I want to be the orange boy,’” Ripa said. “And he passed out oranges to everybody as he came down the aisle… he came up with it on his own. He had his little tux and his top hat and he passed out oranges.”

    Although Neil and David may have wanted to keep their wedding private, now that some of the details are out, everyone will want to know more and hopefully we’ll see a few photos.

  • Kelly Ripa Shares Intimate Details of Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s Wedding

    Kelly Ripa was one of the lucky few who attended Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka’s top secret wedding over the weekend, and she shared some of the intimate details on Monday’s episode of Live! With Kelly and Michael.

    “I spent the weekend, in Italy,” Ripa told her cohost Michael Strahan. “I went to a destination wedding… the wedding of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka.”

    As the room erupted with cheers, Ripa exclaimed, “They got married, yes!”

    Ripa, 43, said the wedding was a “very quiet, very private, family affair.”

    Perhaps she had second thoughts about sharing the details when she remarked, “I’m probably not even supposed to talk about it,” but decided it was alright because “Neil said I could talk about it.”

    “It was a beautiful family affair in Perugia, Italy. They rented a castle — or I think they rented it. I hope we didn’t break into a castle and just stayed there,” Ripa shared. “Sir Elton John performed. There were fireworks. The food was amazing. There were magic tricks, because, you know Neil is way into magic. Their wedding vows were so beautiful.”

    “Their wedding vows were so beautiful,” Ripa gushed. “It was a beautiful wedding. The speeches were very moving. They are such a nice family. They are such a beautify family.”

    According to Ripa, Harris and Burtka’s twins, Gideon and Harper, sorta-kinda stole the show

    “Harper was going to be the flower girl and Gideon was going to be the ring bearer,” Ripa explained.

    Apparently, the couple’s 3-year-old boy wasn’t too thrilled with his role in the wedding.

    “He said, ‘I don’t want to be the ring bearer. I want to be the orange boy,’” Ripa laughed. “And he passed out oranges to everybody as he came down the aisle… he came up with it on his own. He had his little tux and his top hat and he passed out oranges.”

    The adorable-ness didn’t end there. Ripa said she later encountered Gideon on the dance floor and thanked him for the fruit.

    “We were dancing I said to him, ‘Look, Gideon. I saved your orange because I’m gonna keep it forever.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t. They’re so delicious!’”

    Harris, 41, and Burtka, 39, have been together since 2004, and became engaged in June 2011 when New York legalized same-sex marriages.

  • Kelly Ripa Makes Ice Bucket Challenge Look Good

    Kelly Ripa is among many of the stars that have been seen on video doing the ice bucket challenge.

    She and husband Mark Consuelos dumped ice water on their heads just like everyone else. However, there was one thing that was noticeably different from many other ice bucket challenge videos.

    Kelly Ripa is obviously ripped! The woman has had three kids and is 43 years young. How does she look like that?

    Her trainer, Anna Kaiser of AKT in Motion, revealed Ripa’s secret.

    “She works out four to five days per week for 90 minutes per session. Her work ethic is more insane than anyone I’ve ever met!” Kaiser spilled.

    She added, “It’s really every trainer’s dream for their client to want it as badly as you want it for them, and she really puts in the work. She doesn’t expect instant results yet still is so focused, committed, and intense about her fitness.”

    Yes, Kelly Ripa is incredibly fit, but what people can’t stop talking about, in particular, are those abs! I mean, come on!

    “The first rule is that you’re not going to get abs by doing a bunch of crunches. If you want to see your abs, you have to lose fat. I want to be sure there are no misconceptions that specific abs exercises will give you abs! I work with the core,” Kaiser said about Kelly Ripa’s workout.

    She also said, “Think about your abs and back working together to support your spine—that will give you an amazing physique! If one is stronger than the other, you will deal with instability and one overcompensating for the other. Many of the best core exercises all derive from planks. Think of different variations!”

    Well, that gives us something to think about. If you want Kelly Ripa’s abs, you’ve got a lot of work to do!

  • Michael Strahan, Nicole Murphy Split An Amicable One

    Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy have split, and anyone who knows anything about the former couple seems to realize it was a predictable break up. The engaged couple have had two years worth of ups and downs, with a long distance relationship being at the center of the problems.

    “They have been on and off for two years. There have been a lot of ups and downs and back and forth. Sometimes they were together, sometimes they were not,” a source explains. “They were both aware all along of their relationship status. No one did anything wrong. They were both aware of their situation and it was a complicated relationship. There are no big surprises between them.”

    Once Michael Strahan became Kelly Ripa’s sidekick on Live With Kelly and Michael, things predictably became more difficult.

    “They have been trying to figure things out since he got the show and it became a long-distance relationship,” the source adds.

    So far, however, it doesn’t seem as though too much finger pointing has taken place, even though rumor has it that Strahan was blindsided by Murphy telling him she was calling it quits via an unannounced visit to a hotel room. She accused him of cheating and even believed there was a woman in the hotel room with him.

    Nicole Murphy is said to be relaxing in the Bahamas now, however, while Michael Strahan is currently basking in the glory of having been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Neither appears all that upset.

    Nicole Murphy was married to actor and comedian Eddie Murphy and Michael Strahan was married to Jean Muggli. Between the two of them, they have nine children. That in itself would be enough for most people to call off an engagement.

    Alas that likely had no bearing on the status of their relationship. It seems like life and career choices simply got in their way.

    Are you surprised to learn that Michael Strahan and Nicole Murphy have called it quits? It’s refreshing to see a prominent couple who can keep things civil in light of what has to be a most difficult decision.

    Do you think it will stay that way–or is this just the beginning of something that will cover the tabloids for the next few weeks or months?

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  • Kelly Ripa: Michael Strahan’s Homewrecker?

    Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan have great chemistry on the air during their morning show, Live with Kelly & Michael. That is what makes the show so fun to watch.

    However, that chemistry with Kelly Ripa is rumored to be causing some strife in Michael Strahan’s relationship.

    News broke on Friday that Michael was no longer engaged to his long-time girlfriend, Nicole Murphy.

    Michael Strahan’s rep said in a statement, “They love each other very much, but with the distance and work schedule it has been hard to maintain the relationship.”

    Reportedly, Michael works with Kelly Ripa on Live with Kelly and Michael in New York, while Nicole Murphy travels back and forth to film her TV show, Hollywood Exes. Nicole Murphy is the ex-wife of comedian Eddie Murphy.

    The couple had been engaged for five years before breaking up. This news led to widespread speculation that the chemistry between Michael and Kelly Ripa may be more than just on air.

    Back in April, Nicole made remarks to talk show host Wendy Williams that indicated the couple was having trouble finding time to plan a wedding. She said, “We might just have to run off and elope. We’ve been busy though, this has been crazy.”

    She added, “The man’s got 20 jobs right now. He’s just busy.”

    One of those jobs was filming his show with Kelly Ripa.

    During the same time period that she made those remarks, Nicole was combating rumors of unfaithfulness. She was rumored to be seen getting very close to French dancer Larry Bourgeois at a Hollywood party. She is also an admitted serial cheater. So is Kelly Ripa to blame? Or perhaps, more likely, Nicole Murphy?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv8Utoj35r4

    Kelly Ripa has a famously good marriage to Mark Consuelos and the couple has three children together. They seem very happy and Kelly Ripa constantly gushes about her husband and family.

    I would have a hard time believing that chemistry between Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan is what ended his five-year engagement. Sounds like someone was maybe just (rightly) hesitant to marry a serial cheater?

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  • Kelly Ripa Talks Paul Walker With Vin Diesel

    Kelly Ripa and Vin Diesel have a history together. Who knew? The perky host of Live with Kelly & Michael helped the Fast & Furious actor out in his bouncing days.

    Apparently, bouncer Vin Diesel convinced some club owners to let him throw a party. Who did Vin call to liven up the shindig? Kelly Ripa, that’s who.

    “I’m so fun at a party,” Kelly Ripa said. Obviously. If anyone seems like they’d be fun at a party, it’s Kelly Ripa, right? Vin Diesel confirmed that suspicion.

    “She tore the party up,” Diesel said.

    That’s not the only thing Kelly Ripa has been tearing up lately. She has also been tearing up her workout studio while working on her fitness. The late-to-the-instagram-party talk show host posted this photo with her trainer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wfS61W_sYI

    But, I digress.

    It wasn’t all fun and games on Friday’s episode of Live with Kelly & Michael, however. Kelly Ripa did delve into the death of Vin Diesel’s co-star, Paul Walker. Reportedly, Paul Walker‘s brothers stepped in to finish filming on the latest movie, which almost got scrapped after Paul Walker’s death.

    “They don’t teach you in acting how to mourn someone and simultaneously pretend they are in a scene with you,” he told Kelly Ripa of finishing the latest Fast & Furious film without Walker. “It’s one of the darker moments in my journey … It was so sudden, so unexpected.”

    Kelly Ripa also got a chance to see Vin Diesel with hair during his early days as a street performer.

    “Let me just tell you, you look so much better without hair,” Kelly Ripa said.

    He does indeed look great without hair. I agree, Kelly Ripa!

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  • Kelly Ripa: Hoarder or Sentimental Mom?

    Live! with Kelly and Michael host Kelly Ripa recently admitted that she might have some hoarder genes in her blood.

    The 43-year-old spoke to Vanity Fair about how difficult it is for her and her family of five to pack up and move out of their Soho penthouse due to the fact that she likes to hang on to so many of her childrens’ mementos.

    “It is a bit of a nightmare,” she said. “Mark likes to throw everything away, and I want to save everything for when the kids are older one day.”

    Ripa, along with her husband, actor Mark Consuelos, have been trying to sell their home at 76 Crosby Street for over a year.

    The 7,000 square-foot apartment, last listed for $24.5 million, includes 12-foot ceilings, marble, milled wood, a Jacuzzi, and a huge array of windows.

    “This was really more of a family apartment, and most families want to live in Tribeca or maybe the West Village, rather than right in the middle of Soho,” a broker said. “I know of some very high-net-worth individuals who went through there looking for, you know, like a real Soho pad.”

    Ripa and family finally found a buyer, meaning Ripa is having to go through everything she has held on to for many years.

    “You know, [the kids] have their things, like their first report card, so it’s a constant struggle as to what we should toss versus what we should save,” she said.

    Although the children are all grown (ages 17, 13, and 11), the family still has an entire closet filled with various baby items and small children’s things.

    “For some reason, I have a crib and a stroller and a Pack ’n Play, and a little kitchen,” Ripa laughed. “Right now, basically, David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris’s kids come over and play with everything. Like, that’s what it’s there for, just to get them to bring the kids over.”

    But is Ripa a hoarder? Most likely not. She simply sounds like a sentimental mother … with enough income and storage space for it not to matter.

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  • Kelly Ripa: Might She Be A Hoarder?

    Kelly Ripa might have a bit of ‘hoarder blood’ in her genes. She and husband Mark Consuelos, along with their three children–Michael, 17, Lola, 13, and Joaguin, 11–are moving, and the Live With Kelly and Michael host is having a tough time letting some things go.

    The family is presently moving out of their apartment in New York City, and Kelly Ripa says the ordeal is a “bit of a nightmare.” Of course no one likes to move, but when there are kids and moms involved, all sorts of things–and the issues surrounding them–come out of the proverbial woodwork when the packing ensues.

    “Mark likes to throw everything away, and I want to save everything for when the kids are older one day,” Kelly said during a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine. “So, you know, they have their things, like their first report card, so it’s a constant struggle as to what we should toss versus what we should save.”

    “For some reason, I have a crib and a stroller and a Pack ’n Play, and a little kitchen,” she added, as she reminisced about some items she clearly had hung on to for years.

    It certainly doesn’t sound like Kelly Ripa is a hoarder. Hoarders let things pile up to dangerous levels–often living in filth and very unhealthy conditions. And after all, Kelly says she still has a reason for holding on to these things.

    “Right now, basically, David Burtka and Neil Patrick Harris’ kids come over and play with everything,” she said. “Like, that’s what it’s there for, just to get them to bring the kids over.”

    And face it–everyone loves having little children around.

    Moving stinks. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are finding that out first hand. And while it often does mean letting go of some things, it also opens doors to new experiences. And from those new experiences come new things to stash–not hoard–in a brand new, uncluttered (at least for now) space.

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  • Kelly Ripa Makes Anderson Cooper Totally Blush

    Kelly Ripa went there.

    Ripa and Anderson Cooper appeared on Andy Cohen’s show Watch What Happens Live, and the results were both hilarious and a bit uncomfortable to watch. Of course, we know Cooper to be the serious CNN news anchor who travels to dangerous parts of the world in order to get the story.

    But the atmosphere is just a bit lighter on Cohen’s Bravo show than on a CNN broadcast. The host, who is a mutual friend of both guests, told Ripa and Cooper to stand face to face and fire questions at the other person. The goal of the game was to make their opponent feel frustrated or embarrassed.

    Ripa brought out the penis question right off the bat, and it was game on. She asked Cooper, “Are you circumcised?” She also rapidly followed the penis question with asking him if he wanted to have sex and if he wanted to see her vagina. The Silver Fox never really recovered and admitted through tears of laughter, “You’re flustering me! I’m flustered.” He also added, “When she said ‘vagina,’ that’s when I had to stop. I got very nervous.”

    Later on in the segment, host Andy Cohen directed a question from a caller to Cooper. The caller wanted to know a secret about Cohen. Perhaps wanting to deflect some of the embarrassment off of himself, Cooper immediately obliged, “I know a lot of secrets about Andy. I guess the one that would surprise most people is he’s a top.”

    The tan host smiled but it was easy to tell that he was uncomfortable with Cooper’s declaration. An extended moment of silence followed while Cohen was attempting to get over his embarrassment, then he asked, “Why, you think people think I’m a bottom?”

    Ripa declared, “I don’t.”

    “Believe me, there’s nothing wrong with that, but I’m just saying I think that would surprise people,” Cooper explained. “And I don’t know this from personal experience, but from conversations I have had…I mean, it surprised me when I heard about it.”

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  • Kelly Ripa Shares Vacation Experience

    Kelly Ripa Shares Vacation Experience

    Kelly Ripa recently took a dream trip to Europe where she met up with her friends the Seinfelds. When Kelly returned to Live with Kelly & Michael she was excited to share stories about her vacation and elaborated on some of the family’s great experiences.

    “I gotta tell you, it was magical. It was one of those trips where it all came together so beautifully. We started out in Paris for a couple of days – just a quick, quick trip to Paris – and then we spent the bulk of our trip, 10 days, in Greece, going from island to island,” Ripa said.

    Kelly took her husband Mark Consuelos and their kids Michael, Lola, and Joaquin along with her on the trip. The Seinfeld’s also brought their children, Sascha, Julian, and Shepherd along with them.

    Together, the families traveled throughout Europe, stopping in Greece and Paris. Kelly and Jessica Seinfeld both shared photos of their trip on their Instagram and Twitter pages.

    Kelly said that although both families brought their children, there was plenty of adult time and sometimes it even seemed like the children weren’t there because they got along so well with each other and amused themselves.

    So what was Kelly’s favorite part of the trip? Greece of course. She suggested that anyone wanting to take a trip to Europe make a stop in Greece.

    “If you’re taking a trip someplace overseas and you’re thinking, ‘Where should we go? What should we do?’ I highly encourage you to visit Greece because the people are the kindest and the loveliest, and it’s so beautiful,” she said.

    What do you think of Kelly Ripa’s vacation photos and where is your favorite place to visit in Europe?

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  • Kelly Ripa Gushes on Greece Vacation With Seinfelds

    TV personality Kelly Ripa recently returned from a two-week European vacation with her family and the Seinfeld family.

    Once the Live with Kelly & Michael cohost got back into the studios on Monday, she couldn’t wait to gush on the trip.

    “I’ve gotta tell you, it was magical. It was one of those trips where it all came together so beautifully,” she said on the show. “We started out in Paris for a couple of days – just a quick, quick trip to Paris – and then we spent the bulk of our trip, 10 days, in Greece, going from island to island.”

    Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, 43, treated their three kids, 17-year-old Michael, 13-year-old Lola and 11-year-old Joaquin, to a vacation of a lifetime.

    As for the Seinfelds, Jerry and Jessica brought their children, 13-year-old Sascha, 11-year-old Julian and 8-year-old Shepherd, to hang out with the Consuelos kids.

    “It was like having no kids because they all amused each other and nobody drove us insane, so it was like a vacation,” Ripa said. “They weren’t fighting with each other and they weren’t telling us how bored they were. It was perfect and so much fun.”

    Ripa, 43, shared photos of her magical European vacation on her show. Some of their favorite stops along the way included the famous Eiffel Tower in Paris, Poseidon’s Temple in Athens and Sarakiniko Beach in Milos, Greece.

    “It was a lovely trip,” she said. “If you’re taking a trip someplace overseas and you’re thinking, ‘Where should we go? What should we do?’ I highly encourage you to visit Greece because the people there are the kindest and the loveliest, and it’s so beautiful.”

    Needless to say, pics were shared along the way on social media by both Ripa and Jessica Seinfeld.










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  • Kelly Ripa Goes On Vacation To Greece With The Seinfelds

    Kelly Ripa is fresh from her European vacation with the Seinfelds. Ripa will be honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and she celebrated by going on a family vacation with husband Mark Consuelos and their kids Michael, Lola, and Joaquin. Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld brought their children Sascha, Julian, and Shepherd along with them.

    “I gotta tell you, it was magical. It was one of those trips where it all came together so beautifully. We started out in Paris for a couple of days – just a quick, quick trip to Paris – and then we spent the bulk of our trip, 10 days, in Greece, going from island to island,” Ripa said.

    Jessica Seinfeld, who is Ripa’s close friend, congratulated her on Instagram by saying that she is the greatest friend in the world and she does a fantastic job on her morning show Live with Kelly and Michael. “Congratulations my love,” she said.

    Ripa shared her pictures from her European trip including pictures on the Eiffel Tower, Poseidon’s Temple, Santorini, and Athens.

    “It was like having no kids because they all amused each other and nobody drove us insane, so it was like a vacation.”

    The trip was also a milestone for Jerry Seinfeld, as he took his first ever selfie. His wife shared the picture on Instagram with the caption, “Jerry’s First Selfie. Ugh. Stop. #greeceistheword.”

    Jerry Seinfeld, Jessica Seinfeld, Instagram

    Ripa enjoyed the trip so much that she encouraged viewers to take a Grecian vacation there as well. “If you’re taking a trip someplace overseas and you’re thinking, ‘Where should we go? What should we do?’ I highly encourage you to visit Greece because the people are the kindest and the loveliest, and it’s so beautiful,” she said.

    Ripa will be receiving her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2015.

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  • Lara Spencer Named New ‘GMA’ Co-Host

    Lara Spencer was named a Good Morning America co-host on Friday. This puts her in the same playing field as both Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos and means she will have far more exposure during the first hour of the show. This is just another of a string of changes at GMA. Sam Champion was replaced by Ginger Zee in December and Josh Elliott was replaced by Amy Robach just a few weeks ago. Sources expect Spencer’s promotion is the last of the big changes for the show. Her promotion was announced publicly just a month after she signed a new ABC News contract.

    Spencer’s big news was announced by James Goldston, president of ABC News. In an internal memorandum he told those who work on the show that “Lara is clearly an essential ingredient in the success we have enjoyed.”

    Lara Spencer hosted the entertainment news magazine The Insider before she became part of Good Morning America back in 2011, as “lifestyle anchor,” a job was was created just for her. Her signature segment has been the “Pop News Heat Index,” a one-hour summary of entertainment and pop culture news stories running from 8:00 to 9:00 A.M.

    It was two years ago this very week that Good Morning America overtook The TODAY Show in the morning news program ratings. That ended a 16-year streak TODAY had of being the winning news program. They have yet to regain that status. Just last week GMA led TODAY by 279,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54. This age group denotes a key demographic for news advertisers.

    It was announced just a few days ago that Live with Kelly and Michael star Michael Strahan will also be joining Good Morning America as a special correspondent. He won’t be leaving the show he co-hosts with Kelly Ripa, however. He and Lara Spencer are shown in her Instragram photo as she tells him he will need extra caffeine in order to be part of the morning news show.

    Congratulations to Lara Spencer on her promotion at Good Morning America. How do you suppose Robin Roberts and George Stephanopoulos feel about sharing the limelight with a third party? Do you suppose they are on board with Spencer’s promotion or are they feeling as though they’ve been thrown under that proverbial bus?

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