{"id":1857,"date":"2016-04-25T00:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T07:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2016-04-25T00:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-04-25T07:07:58","slug":"ripas-pissed-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2016\/04\/25\/ripas-pissed-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Ripa&#8217;s Pissed Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after last Tuesday&#8217;s show, <strong>Kelly Ripa <\/strong>was told that <strong>Michael Strahan <\/strong>was leaving <strong><em>Live with Kelly and Michael<\/em><\/strong> to be a full-time member of <strong><em>Good Morning America<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 Sources say Ripa felt blindsided and betrayed by someone she went to bat for only four years ago.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s been through this before.\u00a0 When Strahan started moonlighting at <em>GMA<\/em> two years ago, Ripa was told as an afterthought.\u00a0 And she had reason to be concerned &#8211; at the time, <em>ABC<\/em> was considering cancelling <em>Live<\/em> and replacing it with another hour of <em>GMA<\/em> (much like <em>Today<\/em> did with <strong>Kathie Lee <\/strong>and <strong>Hoda<\/strong>).\u00a0 Now those concerns have resurfaced.\u00a0 Ripa, who had a long weekend already scheduled, called in sick Wednesday.\u00a0 Calls and texts from Strahan and the network escalated when a rumor surfaced that Ripa was considering staying out &#8220;sick&#8221; until Strahan left in September.\u00a0 Ultimately, she agreed to return to work as scheduled on Tuesday, and sent out an e-mail to the staff, thanking them for &#8220;giving me the time to process this new information&#8221;.\u00a0 I think it&#8217;s gonna be a rocky few months.<\/p>\n<p>Who will replace Strahan?\u00a0 At the time of his hiring, the other main contenders were <strong>Neil Patrick Harris <\/strong>and <strong>Anderson Cooper<\/strong>.\u00a0 But NPH was busy in LA shooting <strong><em>How I Met Your Mother<\/em><\/strong>, and Coop had his own daytime talk show.\u00a0 Now, NPH lives in NYC, and Coop has his days free.\u00a0 Anderson&#8217;s hiring is being championed by a mutual friend, <strong>Andy Cohen <\/strong>&#8211; which begs the question: does Kelly Ripa have any straight male friends?\u00a0 Cohen, who was also a candidate, says he has too many jobs as producer of all those <strong><em>Housewives<\/em><\/strong> shows on <em>Bravo <\/em>&#8211; aside from hosting <strong><em>Watch What Happens Live<\/em><\/strong>.\u00a0 He thinks Cooper is the way to go.\u00a0 &#8220;He&#8217;d be amazing!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moments after last Tuesday&#8217;s show, Kelly Ripa was told that Michael Strahan was leaving Live with Kelly and Michael to be a full-time member of Good Morning America.\u00a0 Sources say Ripa felt blindsided and betrayed by someone she went to bat for only four years ago.\u00a0 But she&#8217;s been through this before.\u00a0 When Strahan started<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1858,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions\/1858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}