Yeah. I like Michael a lot, he’s just doing what he needs to do for his own career. And in the end, this whole kerfuffle paves the way for Anderson Cooper to take over the cohost seat, which would have happened four years ago but he was contractually tied up in his doomed daytime talk show. But in the meantime, I am…

What are you confused about? I was replying to OP who said “In the real world, coworkers step on toes and stab others in the back all the time.”

I love that! She talks about her parents back home a lot, she’s always seemed to have a lot of fondness for her hometown.

woot woot! It is soooo New Jersey. I love it! :)

Except she DID experience this before, in 2011, when Regis Philbin told Kelly that he was about to announce that he was quitting 20 minutes before they went on air.

YAAAAAS! yaaas Kelly you look so good! OMG yaaaaaaas

[H]er lifestyle eats up most of it ... As one source put it, “She makes a lot of money, but she spends a lot of money, and so does he.”

This vague statement is literally all that the TMZ article says. No one said she spends money as fast as she makes it. We have no evidence that she doesn’t save.

Nice to delete me. You’re making up quotes so you can call Kelly spoiled. WTF indeed.

Right? I mean with this anonymous source snippily saying “she spends a lot of money,” like Kelly is out buying a private jet or her own island or $40,000 worth of shoes. She’s buying Manhattan/LI real estate — rock-solid investments and ones in which her family can live. She’s spending wisely. And she’s got product…

Where did anyone say “need”?

Kelly Ripa I don’t get, but Lara Spencer ... I kind of do. She’s just not very likable. Sometimes when I watch GMA I get the sense that the rest of the crew can’t stand her. It really makes me uncomfortable. But it also makes me uncomfortable that they keep Lara on, she does her job without fail or complaint, and she…

Oh fuck yourself, ABC “source,” trying to insinuate Kelly is in a weak position because of her “spending habits.” Am I supposed to be appalled that a woman who makes $15 mil a year spends it on fancy real estate local to where she’s raising her three kids? Or that UES townhomes and Hampton manses indicate some sort of…

Oh, I’m aware. And I really wouldn’t want him back anyway. I was forced to begrudgingly accept Josh due to the fact that he married the goddess Liz Cho, and —as much as it pains me to say it — he is a better newsperson than current GMA dildoes (like that Gio idiot). But he burned all his ABC bridges, as an overgrown…

That’s nice, dear.

Oh please, Regis has a reputation for being a douche that precedes Kelly Ripa’s birth. Ever heard of The Joey Bishop Show?

Ha ha, no. But she is Twitter-quoted above re: Kelly not coming to work today (complete with little red sirens, lol).

Yup, get rid of LIVE, which works, to turn GMA into a 3-hour shitshow. Maybe George Stephanopoulos can get drunk with Tori Johnson in hour three and lament their once respectable careers (seriously, am I the only one who remembers Tori as the career/workplace expert and not just the “Steals & Deals” lady??)

I would say so. LIVE gets great ratings, even moreso once Regis left. That’s almost all Kelly’s doing. Meanwhile, there hasn’t been a truly decent lineup at GMA since Robin was with Diane Sawyer and Chris Cuomo ... Juju Chang ... hell, I’ll take that overgrown fratboy Josh Elliott back over some of the chumps they…

He probably had an NDA. I’m sure he had no choice but not to tell Kelly. Michael’s a good guy.

I’m a 100% Team Ripa here. Kelly is an amazing host and she has kept LIVE going for almost two decades. She put up with Regis’s rude, hungover ass forgetting guest names and generally being a wang. She is perky and happy and engaged in 6" heels every motherfucking day, and she can cohost with virtually anyone.