Within months the renamed Live! with Regis and Kelly's young-audience demographics increased by 80 percent with Ripa credited for bringing "a new life to the show." We knew that from her memorable debut onward." Ripa was announced as the official replacement on February 5, 2001. Ripa replied, "I haven't told my boss yet!" Philbin later said that Ripa was first among the potential candidates including Jane Krakowski, Valerie Bertinelli, Dolly Parton, and Bernadette Peters: "t could only be Kelly. During this segment, Margolis guessed that Ripa was pregnant with her second child. On the day of Ripa's initial Live! with Regis tryout (November 1, 2000), psychic Char Margolis was among the guests. And my God, who knew what spontaneous combustion we'd make together? So that was when this smiling, petite ball of fire named Kelly Ripa made her return to Live! for a test run at the rotating, up-for-grabs hot seat to my left. We decided to invite her back, this time to consider her as a possible co-host. Hers was a natural, quick-witted, unaffected, confident, fun-loving kind of sparkle that both Gelman and I remembered very well. There was one guest we'd had on with us a few years before who had. In his autobiography, How I Got This Way, Philbin says of discovering Ripa: She concluded her 12-year stint in 2002, but returned for two episodes in 2010 to help celebrate the soap opera's 40th anniversary.Īfter co-host Kathie Lee Gifford's final show on Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, Regis Philbin began holding on-air auditions to find her replacement. Ripa was cast in her first major acting role in 1990 as Hayley Vaughan, a troubled party girl, on All My Children. Her career goal at the time was to be a newscaster and she often did the cast news reports.
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She attended Camden County College studying psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.Ĭareer Dancin' on Air, Dance Party USA and All My Children Īside from local TV gigs, Ripa's first national television exposure came in 1986 when she appeared as a regular dancer on Dancin' On Air, leading into Dance Party USA.
"He thought I was a natural performer and so he gave me the lead in the next show." She starred in local theater productions and was discovered while performing in The Ugly Duckling during her senior year. "I owe so much of my career to Jim Boeckle," she said. During her high school years she was a cheerleader and was encouraged by her drama teacher to pursue acting. Ripa graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey. She studied ballet since age three, plays the piano, and in her words is "no Barbra Streisand" but can carry a tune. She is the first in her family to enter the acting profession. Her father has been the Democratic County Clerk for Camden County, New Jersey, since June 2009. She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children's book author.
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Kelly Maria Ripa was born and raised in Berlin, New Jersey, the daughter of Esther, a homemaker, and Joseph Ripa, a labor union president and bus driver who attended Rutgers University. 2.1 Dancin' on Air, Dance Party USA and All My Children.DANCE PARTY USA was the 1st TV dance show to allow interracial couples to dance on TV and it was the 1st to incorporate music videos in its format (Club MTV was all music videos). Ratings research at the time showed that audiences consistently preferred DANCE PARTY USA 10 to 3 over American Bandstand, 10 to 2 over Soul Train and 10 to 2 over Dance Fever. The show had over 50 different hosts, and the show's ratings never declined with the departure of any of the hosts nor with the departure of any of the "regulars." A little known fact: During it's 6 year run, DANCE PARTY USA's ratings continued to increase even though the young adult demographics dwindled. Kids from Canada as well as from every state in the nation flew to Philadelphia to appear on the show, even if it was just once.
Kids from as far away as Guam wrote letters to the show.
DANCE PARTY USA was broadcast daily to over 35 million households in all 50 states, all US territories and parts of Canada on the USA Network from 1986 to 1992.
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