Kelly Maria Ripa (; born October 2, 1970) is an American actress, dancer, talk show host, and television producer. As an actress, Ripa’s best-known roles include Hayley Vaughan on the ABC daytime soap opera All My Children (1990–2002, 2010) and Faith Fairfield on the ABC sitcom Hope & Faith (2003–2006). Since 2001, Ripa has been the co-host of the syndicated morning talk show Live! with Kelly and Ryan in various formats. Ripa and her husband, Mark Consuelos, own a New York-based production company, Milojo. In 2014, The Hollywood Reporter named her one of the Most Powerful People in Media.
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| Born | Kelly Maria Ripa October 2, 1970 |
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| Years active | 1986–present |
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| Children | 3 |
Kelly Ripa Wiki, Biography
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. She has a sister, Linda, who is a children’s book author. She was on a local PHL17, called Dancing on Air, before the dance show got picked up by USA Network, called it Dance Party USA. Kelly did several chat line commercials asking guys to call the “hot line” where us “hot girls” are always on the phone. Commercials always aired after midnight in the local Philadelphia market. [6] She has three-quarters Italian and one-quarter Irish ancestry. Ripa was raised Catholic.[7][8] Her father has been the Democratic County Clerk for Camden County, New Jersey, since June 2009.
Ripa graduated from Eastern Regional High School in Voorhees Township, New Jersey.[9] During her high school years she was a cheerleader and was encouraged by her drama teacher to pursue acting. “I owe so much of my career to Jim Boeckle,”[10] she said. “He thought I was a natural performer and so he gave me the lead in the next show.”[11] She starred in local theater productions and was discovered while performing in The Ugly Duckling during her senior year.[9] She attended Camden County College studying psychology, but dropped out and moved to New York City to pursue an acting career.
Awards and honors
In 1999, she won the Best Actress Award at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival for her work in The Stand-In.
In 2007 and 2012, Ripa hosted the TV Land Awards to very positive reviews.[22] She, herself, is an award winner, garnering five Soap Opera Digest Awards and three Daytime Emmy Award nominations for playing Hayley Vaughan on All My Children.
Ripa was also recognized for her work on the Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade, which she co-hosted from 2001–2009, with the Emmy Award for Outstanding Special Class Special in 2006. She and co-host Regis Philbin have also twice won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host for Live! with Regis and Kelly, for which they also received 12 Emmy Award nominations and 4 People’s Choice Award nominations. Subsequently, for Live! with Kelly and Michael, She and co-host Michael Strahan won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Entertainment Talk Show Host for their work in 2015 and 2016.
The Broadcast Pioneers inducted Ripa into their Hall of Fame for her tremendous success in the television industry on November 19, 2010, and also honoured her as their Person of the Year.[23]
On October 12, 2015, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce honored Kelly Ripa with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[24]
On September 15, 2006, Ripa broke the Guinness World Record as twenty-four banana-cream pies were tossed at her mouth in one minute, as part of a Guinness World Record Breaker theme week on Live!. On September 16, 2011, Ripa broke the Guinness World Record for Most Grapes Trodden in 1 Minute, of 5.4 litres, as she extracted 8.4 litres. However, her competitor, Martina Servaty of Germany, extracted even more (8.6 litres), preventing Ripa from holding the new record.[25]
In 2008, Cowboy Mouth, a New Orleans, Louisiana-based rock band, honored Ripa by writing a song in tribute, entitled “Kelly Ripa”, that appeared on their album Fearless. The band performed the song on Live! on March 13, 2008. In 2017, Ripa was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame. In 2019 she was honored with her sixth daytime Emmy award.
Personal life
In 1995, Ripa met Mark Consuelos, her co-star on All My Children. The two eloped on May 1, 1996. The couple have three children: Michael Joseph (born June 2, 1997), Lola Grace (born June 16, 2001), and Joaquin Antonio (born February 24, 2003).
For many years, they lived on Crosby Street in SoHo, Manhattan, but they sold that home in 2015 for $20 million. In 2015, they moved to a townhouse on East 76th Street. They bought the place in 2013, though it was never officially listed on the market, for $27 million from fashion designer Luca Orlandi and his wife, Oluchi Onweagba, making it the second most expensive townhouse sold in NYC that year.[
In 2011, Kelly revealed she had misophonia.
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Net Worth
The Estimated Net worth is $80K – USD $85k.
| Monthly Income/Salary (approx.) | $80K – $85k USD |
| Net Worth (approx.) | $4 million- $6 million USD |