Kelly Ripa Gets $20 Mil a Year and (Finally) Her Own Bathroom

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4 • 962 Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Kelly Ripa is pulling back the curtain on her “Live!” experience. In a new interview with Variety, the daytime queen opens up about the backstage drama she’s dealt with, and all the battles she’s fought in the name of equity and equality! From being drastically underpaid and having to share a bathroom with the audience, to being kept in the dark about major show decisions, Kelly is shedding a whole new light on the feel-good TV staple.

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0:00.0	So Arisha, we've talked so many times here about how tough it can be for women in showbiz.
0:12.0	I mean, let's be honest, we don't always get to play on a level playing field even though I can't seem to think of a single man doing it better than us right now.
0:19.2	Mm-hmm you can say that again. Yeah, yep, that's it. That's it. There's no notes to that. Okay, yeah, perfect. So, apparently someone who knows all about an uneven playing field is Kelly Riffa. She's been one of the hosts of the morning talk show live since
0:34.4	2001 and now instead of asking the questions she's answering a lot of them
0:39.3	concerning the truly difficult journey she's had on the way to becoming one of the
0:44.0	Queens of daytime. Yeah so Kelly opened up in a new interview and she got real
0:50.0	about the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to her hosting gig on Live.
0:56.4	Yeah, and there's way more ugly than I assumed, I just gotta say.
0:59.9	Yeah, I hate it.
1:00.9	It's one of those things where it's like, what?
1:03.2	But also, of course, I know.
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