Kelly Ripa is most known today for being a talk show host, one half of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Ryan, which has seen several reformats. But before she became a TV personality, she was once a soap opera actress, famous for her role in All My Children.
So, with her huge success today, not just in her career but also in her personal life, know more about Ripa, her career, and her net worth.
Kelly Ripa's Career
The 52-year-old has been the co-host of Live! since 2001. She got an invite to audition as the morning show's co-host.
At the time, it was still known as Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. It was renamed to Live with Regis and Kelly when she was accepted.
Her inclusion in the show was an instant hit, making it a rating juggernaut even with Regis' exit. From there, she had different co-hosts, from Michael Strahan to Ryan Seacrest.
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As an actress, she became famous for her role as Hayley Vaughan on All My Children and Faith Fairfield on Hope & Faith.
She also owns a New York-based production company, Milojo, with her husband, Mark Consuelos.
Kelly Ripa's Salary and Net Worth
Ripa has an annual salary of $22 million as a host, helping her amass a net worth of $120 million.
Kelly Ripa Opens Up Marriage Life with Mark Consuelos
Ripa opened up about her marriage life with Consuelos and admitted they, too, had faced several challenges during the start of their relationship.
"My biggest complaint about you over the course of our marriage — and this is not recent because it definitely changed — but you used to be insanely jealous, and that was a hard pill to swallow," she said on her new podcast, Let's Talk Off Camera, via Entertainment Tonight.
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The pair have been married since 1996, spending 27 years as a husband and wife.
However, at the time, she found it "very hard" to build a new life with someone who was very jealous and recalled the first time she got upset over her husband's behavior.
"It was our first week of marriage because we didn't take our honeymoon until later. You were working, and I went to visit you in Boston," she detailed.
"We went to this Italian restaurant, and the waiter was, like, a very cute old man; he's definitely in his 70s if not 80s. He leaned down, and he said, 'And for the principessa?'" she continued. "I thought it was so cute that this little old man called me a princess, and I looked at him, and I gave him my order in a very smiley way. And he walked away, and you picked a horrible fight."
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Consuelos, alternatively, explained himself, arguing he was just 25 and "pretty insane."
"But that jealousy thing definitely followed me for a while. I'm not jealous anymore," he defended.
For that, Ripa was "grateful" that her husband had improved.
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