When will Kelly Ripa come back? The future of ABC’s mornings may depend on the answer.
Ripa was an unexpected no-show Wednesday on “Live With Kelly and Michael,” following cohost Michael Strahan‘s announcement that he would exit in September to join ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
ABC then issued a posterior-covering statement later in the day that Ripa would actually be absent until Tuesday, due to a “previously scheduled vacation.”
It seems unlikely that Ripa — whose spokesperson did not return several e-mail and phone messages from TheWrap — was so distraught by Strahan’s impending departure that she simply could not bear to do any work.