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Perth Now
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Oprah Winfrey doesn't miss talk show
Oprah Winfrey doesn't miss her talk show. The veteran broadcaster helmed the Oprah Winfrey Show from 1986 until 2011 and while she loved being able to connect with the audience, she admitted making the programme and delving into hard-hitting topics became very "hard". Speaking on the Let's Talk Off Camera With Kelly Ripa podcast, she said: "I miss the everyday conversation. I miss the conversations afterwards. "As much as I loved the audience, I'm telling you, the nature of what we were doing every day became just so hard." And Oprah admitted her producers would get "overwhelmed" if the programme didn't win awards so she eventually stopped submitting herself for the major prizes so her team could focus on "doing the best work possible and she could focus on "putting out the effort to do good things, to be a force for good in the world". She added: "It's not gonna be measured by an award at the end of the year. It's measured in every viewer response. "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. "I still hold in reverence all the opportunities we had to reach into people's lives and be there for them in ways that mattered." The talk show was known for its generous gifts and giveaways to the studio audience, but Oprah admitted it became stressful trying to outdo the last competition, and had a realisation when one producer suggested sending someone into space. She remembered thinking: "It is time to bring it down." The final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show saw Oprah take more than 300 of her audience members to Australia for eight days, and while she enjoyed the experience, there were logistical difficulties her team hadn't thought of. She said: "What we didn't realise is 90 percent of the audience didn't have a passport. "So the producers were, like, out of their minds trying to get passports for the people in time for the show in Australia." Oprah made her comments after Kelly - who co-hosts Live with Kelly and Mark with husband Mark Consuelos - asked when she would know it was time to "step away" from the show, which she has fronted since 2001. The 71-year-old star insisted it wasn't yet "time" for her interviewer to move on. She said: "First of all, it's not time for you to step away. And I, if I were advising you, I would say absolutely not. "[You and Mark] are in a groove, and that groove continues to work." Oprah praised the tone of the show for being "easy" and "light" but also "serious enough when it needs to be." And Oprah argued that Live... is "vital and important". She said: "Don't let go of the platform that you have. "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."
Perth Now
23-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Kelly Ripa wears her wedding dress 'all the time'
Kelly Ripa wears her "off-the-rack" wedding dress as a "beach cover-up". The 54-year-old talk show host purchased her slip gown from Barneys New York for under $200 when she got hitched to her husband Mark Consuelos in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1996, and she is keeping her bet alive that "maybe it will be an investment piece" by donning it "all the time". She told PEOPLE magazine's World's Most Beautiful issue: "I took the tags off to wear it to our wedding and I wear it all the time now as a beach cover-up." However, there are other outfits - some more daring than others - that she "can't or just won't wear" as is making a mental list of them. She added: "There are so many things that I just can't or won't wear. I'm literally making a list in my head. "I really try not to, at this age, [wear miniskirts] - and especially since I spend most of my time sitting in a stool or a desk, I try to wear longer skirts." Kelly previously wore her wedding dress when the smitten couple jetted off to the Turks and Caicos islands in 2016 to mark their 20th anniversary. She said on her daytime show 'Live with Kelly and Michael [ Strahan]' in 2016 - which she now co-hosts with her husband: "I didn't buy it as a wedding dress. "I just bought it because it was really pretty. 'I said to myself, 'I bet if I buy this maybe it will be an investment piece. Maybe I will wear it more than once.'"
Yahoo
31-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kelly Ripa Keeps Things PG as She Celebrates Husband Mark Consuelos' 54th Birthday
Happy birthday, Mark Consuelos! The actor celebrated his 54th birthday on Sunday, March 30, and wife Kelly Ripa marked the occasion with a loving, sports-themed tribute — rather than a sexy or silly one the couple has become known for sharing. "Let's wish a happy birthday to my favorite golfer @instasuelos," Ripa, 54, wrote in the caption of her tribute to her Live with Kelly and Mark cohost. "Long may he stump us," she continued, adding an array of emojis: "🎉🎉✨✨⛳️🏌️." Never miss a story — sign up for to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kelly Ripa (@kellyripa) Related: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' Relationship Timeline Mark also got some birthday love from his daughter Lola Consuelos on his special day. (He and Ripa are also parents to sons Michael Consuelos and Joaquin Consuelos.) "Happy birthday to my hero and the most important man in the whole entire world!" Lola, 23, wrote alongside a throwback photo of the pair on a boat. "I love you soooo much XOXOXOXOX." The PEOPLE Puzzler crossword is here! How quickly can you solve it? Play now! Ryan Seacrest, who previously hosted Live! with Ripa before his departure in 2023 — leading to Consuelos taking over — shared a photo of the duo showing off their muscles. "Another year, another reminder that @instasuelos is aging in reverse. Happy birthday, pal. Take a day off and have some cake — you've earned it!" he wrote in his caption. Friend Andy Cohen also celebrated the Riverdale star by posting a shirtless photo of Consuelos on his Instagram Stories with "Happiest day to @instasuelos" written across it in white font. Related: Kelly Ripa Reveals How She Wooed Husband Mark Consuelos and Got Him to Say 'I Love You' First Mark and Ripa first met in 1995, when the Scream 7 star filmed a screen test with the Dance Party USA alum for All My Children. After Mark was hired to play Ripa's love interest on the daytime drama, their relationship turned romantic, and less than a year into their romance, they eloped in Las Vegas in 1996. A year later, the pair welcomed their eldest child, who was followed by their other two kids in 2001 and 2003. Back in October, Mark celebrated Ripa on her birthday with a montage of photos of her over the years, which was set to Madonna's 'I'm Addicted." 'Happy Birthday Sexy! I'm so glad you were born. What a beautiful sprint around the sun. The best is yet to come," he wrote in his caption, jokingly adding: 'P.S. I promise not to snore so much this year." Read the original article on People
