Insiders tell Page Six that ABC brass approached Consuelos as early as last summer for the role, with the expectation Seacrest would be leaving.
Ryan Seacrest said on Thursday that he will step down from “Live with Kelly and Ryan.”AdvertisementABC ENTERTAINMENTRipa’s former soap opera star hubby had sat in as a co-host on the show around 100 times over the years, a TV insider told us — and social media engagement has spiked when he and Ripa, 52, are on the air together, they said.Despite all the preparations behind-the-scenes, the show was able to keep the announcement under wraps until Seacrest broke the news on Thursday.
Seacrest told viewers, “What I plan to do is once ‘American Idol’ starts from Los Angeles later this spring, I’ll head out to the West Coast and host that show.”Ripa said of her hubby, “The only person I can think of that is capable of holding [Ryan’s] torch the way [he has] held it would be my husband, Mark Consuelos.”She said that she and Seacrest had joked that the new husband-wife co-hosting setup is “the nation’s weirdest social experiment.
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