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Kelly Ripa was originally told Regis Philbin wasn't looking for a co-host before she was hired

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Kelly Ripa shared in a new interview that she was originally led to believe she was 'just filling in for the day' when she first co-hosted her future talk show with Regis Philbin.The 52-year-old talk show host and actress claimed on Tuesday's episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast that she was told Philbin — who died in July 2020 at 88 — wasn't even looking for a co-host at the time.'He certainly didn't need me there,' she said of the legendary entertainer, even though she said she eventually came to feel like she had established her place on what came to be called Live!

with Regis and Kelly. Carrying on: Kelly Ripa, 52, said Regis Philbin didn't need her as a co-host and could have carried on solo after Kathie Lee Gifford's departure in an interview published Wednesday for the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast; seen in 2011 in NYCAlthough she was sometimes uncomfortable in her early days on the show because she didn't feel as if she belonged, Kelly defended Regis' alleged aspirations to host the show on his own.'When you're a new person joining a well-established show and a well-oiled machine, and if you read the book [her memoir Live Wire], you know this.

I take his side in this entire argument,' she said, via People. 'He should not have had to have a host assigned to him. That's not fair.

He paid his dues and he established this show, and I really advocate for him in this book.' She added that they sometimes didn't gel because they were 'two strangers from two completely different generations.''It's like very, very divergent people coming together into this workplace and I felt for him because he was so famous and was so well-established,' she said.

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