We Know Who Will Fill In For Kelly Ripa While She’s On A ‘Previously-Scheduled Vacation’

You may have heard that after blessing Live! With Kelly And Michael with a ratings surge, Michael Strahan has decided to leave the show for Good Morning America, a fact that nobody apparently warned Kelly Ripa about in advance.

So Ripa decided not to show up for today’s show taping, and apparently feels “hurt and betrayed on so many levels,” as does Twitter on her behalf.

Now it turns out that Ripa will be out for at least Thursday, Friday and Monday’s shows, as Variety reporter Elizabeth Wagmeister reports on Twitter:

Hopefully, Ripa is getting some R&R (don’t you know it’s 420 today, Kelly?!), while Andrews and Mitchell fill in for her.

It also sounds like ABC have at least spoken with Ripa and have come to some kind of understanding with her, letting her take some days off, and then teaming up with her to find Strahan’s replacement. This allows us to wildly speculate as to who she will choose. I myself hope she can convince Bill Murray to join her as cohost. Or how about my boyfriend, Jeff Goldblum?

As a result, everybody is going to pretend that Ripa left on a “previously-scheduled vacation,” so you know, there’s nothing to see here!

Either way, everything will be okay, Kelly. Get some rest.

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