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Ryan Seacrest Bids Farewell To Live With Kelly And Ryan After Six years
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Ryan Seacrest has announced that he is leaving his co-hosting duties on Live with Kelly and Ryan.
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Seacrest had been hosting the show with Kelly Ripa since 2017.
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Kelly Ripa announced that her husband Mark Consuelos would be taking over as co-host of the show.
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The show will now be known as Live with Kelly and Mark.
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Seacrest had provided a steady hand for the show during a somewhat tumultuous time.
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Seacrest arrived on Live after a one-year search to replace Michael Strahan.
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Michael Strahan had left the show to join Good Morning America.
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Seacrest’s arrival nearly coincided with Megyn Kelly’s talk show on NBC.
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Live has been the top-rated daytime talk show among women ages 25 to 54 for more than a year.
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The show started in the 1980s as a New York talk show co-hosted by Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford.
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Seacrest will continue hosting American Idol after leaving Live with Kelly and Ryan.
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Seacrest will continue hosting Live with Kelly and Ryan until the spring.
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The show will feature Mark Consuelos as the new co-host starting from a certain date.
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Live with Kelly and Ryan has centered on a simple concept of two hosts chatting about their lives and bringing in celebrities for interviews.
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Seacrest said working with Kelly Ripa for the last six years has been a dream job.
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Kelly Ripa said Seacrest’s energy, passion and love for entertainment is one-of-a-kind.
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The show provided a soothing antidote to the divisive Trump years, which Megyn Kelly’s show failed to do.