Kelly Ripa is speaking candidly about the sexism she’s faced at “Live!” over the years. Ripa has spent 22 years hosting the beloved daytime show, joining in Feb.
2021 to host with Regis Philbin. However, despite now reportedly earning a salary in the range of $20 million a year, it’s definitely not been easy to get to where she is, Ripa tells Variety.
She admits she didn’t even have a permanent office backstage for her first years on air, recalling: “It was the strangest experience I’ve ever had in my life. “I was told that I couldn’t have an office.
It didn’t make a whole lot of sense, especially because there were empty offices that I could have easily occupied.” Ripa, who fronts the first of five Power of Women issues of the mag, was finally given a permanent space — an empty janitor’s closest.
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