Oprah on Whether Kelly Ripa Should Step Away From Her Talk Show: "Do Not Do It"
Between All My Children and Live With Kelly and Mark, has spent close to 40 years on ABC Daytime, and at some point it is logical to ask when it's best to step away.
That's the question Ripa asked daytime talk icon Oprah Winfrey on her podcast Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa.
She asked,
I've been at the talk show now for 25 years, so I'm asking for a friend. How did you know it was time to step away?
Oprah, who hosted her own talk show for 25 years, replied:
First of all, it's not time for you to step away. And I, if I were advising you, I would say absolutely not.
She continued:
Do not do it. Don't even consider it, because I feel that the reach that you have, the audience that you've built, the family that you've created — both inside the studio and in the rest of the world — is really more vital and important now than ever before.
Ripa, who joined All My Children in 1990 at the age of 20, met her husband Mark Consuelos on the Pine Valley set. In 2000 she joined Live! With Regis and Kelly and co-hosted the long-running talk show with a string of co-hosts before Consuelos was named to the spot in 2023.
This story was originally reported by Daytime Confidential on Jul 17, 2025, where it first appeared.
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