Oprah Winfrey Tells Kelly Ripa Not to Quit Her Talk Show: 'It's Not Time'
Oprah Winfrey told Kelly Ripa not to quit Live during a chat on Ripa's Let's Talk Off Camera podcast
Winfrey told Ripa that "it's not the time for you to step away," and that she and husband Mark Consuelos "are in a groove"
Winfrey also reflected on her time hosting The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran from 1986 until 2011Oprah Winfrey is imparting some advice to fellow talk show mainstay Kelly Ripa.
During a recent appearance on Ripa's podcast, Let's Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Winfrey urged Ripa not to quit Live with Kelly and Mark anytime soon.
"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?" Ripa, who joined Live as a permanent co-host in 2001, asked Winfrey, who famously hosted her own eponymous talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, from 1986 until 2011.
"First of all, it's not time for you to step away," Winfrey responded. "And I, if I were advising you, I would say absolutely not."
Winfrey told Ripa that she and her husband, Mark Consuelos, "are in a groove, and that groove continues to work."
Ripa told Winfrey that she and Consuelos, who joined her as co-host in 2023, "have fun" together.
Winfrey then praised their talk show for being "easy" and "light" but also "serious enough when it needs to be."
Most importantly, Winfrey said it's "not a grind," before reflecting on how her own show became a bit too much for her to deal with personally.
"As much as I loved being a part of the show every day, and as much as I loved the audience, I'm telling you, the nature of what we were doing every day became just so hard."
Ripa pointed out that Winfrey was "dealing with very serious topics a lot of the time."
Winfrey opened up about her decision to pull out of Emmy consideration midway through its run, with Ripa joking that it was due to her running out of shelf space.
The talk show icon said pushing for awards became "not even worth [it]" to her because she was more focused on "putting out the effort to do good things, to be a force for good in the world" through her show.
"It's not gonna be measured by an award at the end of the year. It's measured in every viewer response," she reasoned. "I've said many times, your legacy is every life you touch. It's measured in all the lives that are being affected by what you're doing and saying."
The Color Purple actress said she still will "hold in reverence all the opportunities we had to reach into people's lives and be there for them in ways that mattered."
Winfrey then implored Ripa by saying, "Don't let go of the platform that you have."
"Do not do it," Winfrey said. "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 agreed with Winfrey and said that, in her "fantasy world," The Oprah Winfrey Show would come back.
"I feel if somebody could get us through the dark times that we currently seem to be stuck in, it would be you guiding us," she said.
Ripa then said she agreed with Winfrey's sentiments about Live, pointing out it likely connects with viewers "because it's not anxiety-inducing."
"I have to remember that there are certain people that I will never know … who are counting on me and counting on the show," she added.
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