Oh grow up lady. People are allowed to change jobs without consulting you. Sheesh.

So what if his leaving affects her? If i leave a job, i don't have to get anyone's permission.

She found out about it while LIVE on the air. It was an ******* move on his part, and the show's.

You don't treat your TALENT that way. It's stupid.

People do not have to put up with being treated like crap.

Sounds like she's thinking about it. Or MAYBE, she's taking a cooling off period so she doesn't say something she'll regret.

"A source close to Ripa said: 'Kelly isn't making any demands. She is very hurt that Disney hasn't even spoken to her yet so they are assuming that she isn't coming back.'

The source added: 'She wants to wait and see what happens. She'd also like someone to do the right thing and speak to her face to face rather than plot and plan behind her back.'"

Let's try a different perspective, shall we?

Much has been written about various late-night talk show wars over the years, but morning-show battles can be just as vicious. Case in point: The current blow-up over “Live With Kelly and Michael.”

News broke this week that co-host Michael Strahan will be going to “Good Morning America” full time, and according to reports, his fellow host Kelly Ripa was not told ahead of time that her co-host would be leaving.

Again.

Apparently, when Regis Philbin decided to retire a few years ago, that news was also sprung on Ripa out of the blue. After he left, the show went through an extensive try-out period in which Ripa had to work with a huge array of potential co-hosts of varying talent levels. When Strahan was finally hired four years ago, she helped get him up to speed and worked hard to turn their partnership into a successful franchise.

None of this rated the courtesy of a heads up?

I’m just trying to get this straight: The host of a popular TV program was blindsided by the departure of her co-host, who had secretly gotten a better job. Management knew about his new job, but she did not. She was told at the last minute. And no one in management thought this situation would blow up?

What I really want to know is, who thought it would be a good idea to ask Ripa to co-host with Strahan for months after the announcement — until he leaves for “GMA” in September, no less? Who thought she’d be up for that? It’s not difficult to understand why she was a no-show at “Live” today and yesterday (and for the next few days, she’ll be taking what ABC is calling previously scheduled time off).

I’m just trying to figure how that pitch to Ripa would have gone: “Sure, Michael is leaving and we knew that and you didn’t, and you’ll have to help us search for and train his replacement, and we didn’t tell you any of this in advance — but won’t it be fun to continue to work with him?”

There are times I don’t understand what goes on in the minds of TV executives. This is one of those times.

I’ve seen a bunch of chatter on social media about how Ripa earns a tidy sum from appearing on “Live.” Well, of course. We are talking about a bunch of very well-compensated people here. This is not about money, it’s about respect, and how that respect is conveyed, publicly and privately.

It’s about a woman who has been disrespected by different management regimes — and expected to sit by and say nothing about it. 

I’ve watched “Live” a lot over the years, as it happens. While Ripa was trying out various guest hosts, I was enduring physical therapy after knee surgery, and I saw it almost every day during that period. Lately, the show’s air time coincides with my gym time. In many ways, I am the show’s target audience.

All in all, I liked the Strahan and Ripa pairing a lot — they often brought out the best in each other, and their warm, goofy irreverence could be enjoyable to watch. But Ripa’s unflagging energy and subtle ability to course-correct have often carried that show, both when Strahan was new on the job and when various other co-hosts have rotated through.

Ripa was the star of that show, but as Nicole Beharie and Stana Katic have found, that status doesn’t mean you’re exempt from the kind of oblivious treatment that can stray into what can look like contempt. No doubt many things were going on behind the scenes at “Live,” “Sleepy Hollow” and “Castle” — there always are.

But those of us in the peanut gallery can say what all of this looks like from the outside, and it just doesn’t look good. If nothing else, TV networks need to care about appearances, and it sure doesn’t look like these networks valued the appeal of these women or their on-screen personas, nor do many of their fans feel that their devotion to those shows is being held in high regard just now.

The truth is, the Ripa situation is part of a spring trend in which all kinds of women on all kinds of shows — and now, including morning TV — have been shown what they’re really worth. They’ve been killed off, written out and otherwise disposed of. Or blindsided.

(It’s worth noting that two of the most high-profile TV controversies of the past few weeks — the exit of Katic and the “Live” brouhaha — have taken place at ABC. If nothing else, it’ll be interesting to see how Disney/ABC Television Group president Ben Sherwood navigates these crises, which are taking place just before upfronts.)

But the spring trend toward casual dismissal and disposal is part of something even bigger: The way Hollywood treats women in general, even those who’ve managed to create solid resumes through grit, skill and endurance. When the Sony hacking scandal revealed that A-list actresses were making less than male co-stars with less drawing power, that was another battle over respect, not money. Of course the money matters: Equal pay for equal work is a concept enshrined in law in America, if in not practice at many places of employment.

But what also matters is how employees are treated — what status they are given, how they are made to feel valued, and how that value and respect is communicated to the world outside the organization in question.

At the moment, it’s not easy to make the argument that Ripa should feel valued as a longtime employee of ABC. Would you?

The first half of the article made good points. Until they went on with the "war on women" spin.

As the lynchpin of the show, yes, they should have talked to her. I really don't know why they wouldn't. Maybe they are planning to replace her too, who knows?

But, in reality the rest of us deal with this everyday. People come and people go. That's life. It always amazes me how hysterical some people get at work when someone leaves.

Lawyerlady wrote:

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Lady Gaga Snerd wrote:

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As the lynchpin of the show, yes, they should have talked to her. I really don't know why they wouldn't. Maybe they are planning to replace her too, who knows?

But, in reality the rest of us deal with this everyday. People come and people go. That's life. It always amazes me how hysterical some people get at work when someone leaves.

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 Replace Kelly Ripa?  America's sweetheart?  That would be stupid.  People love her. 

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   I didn't say they should or they shouldn't.  i dont' watch the show.  I just said who knows?  Maybe that is why they aren't telling her things.  

Yes but aren't you making the point that they don't value her by keeping her on the outs? Obviously, that didn't bother them to offend her.

And BTW - I think she actually did have a pre-planned trip. It's her 20th wedding anniversary, her and her husband left for Turks and Caicos. She just called off a couple days early.

I absolutely think that if she were a man she would have been given the courtesy of advanced notice. They would have treated this situation very differently. Corporate douchebags expect women to just sit back and take whatever comes their way without making waves. But they treat men entirely differently - men are treated as fellow professionals who deserve respect.

She can't afford to leave? Then she's a freaking moron.

Well, manage your money well. She's a millionaire. I manage my money well. I always want to reserve my option to walk away. If she didn't bank enough, then she's a fool.

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I don't think she's that pretty. She's a skin covered skeleton. She looks anorexic honestly.

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I wonder what you'd have to say about me.  Wow.   

Oh, and by the way -

Named #81 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.

Ranked #85 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2007 list.



Don't think she's worried about your opinion of her looks.

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LL, you DO know where she got her start don't you??????? Her AND her husband????

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 Yep!  Loved both of them on AMC.  It was so sweet they fell in love and eloped for real!  And they have been married 20 years and are STILL adorable together!  No Hollywood scandals of cheating, and still happy together.  It's wonderful!

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Seriously. She's a petite 5'2" girl who exercises and is healthy. Geesh. And she's NICE.

But, yeah - let's just hate on her because she's skinny and rich.

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This is me, except I don't exercise much and I'm not healthy.  lol!  I am really nice however... and I'm pretty active.  I really hate the "skinny" judgement.  I don't know why people think it's ok.

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 I get it.  I was the skinny girl among my friends for a long time.  I had one that used to remark about my chicken legs all the time and how twiggy they were and that I needed to eat more and put meat on my bones.  One day I snapped and said something along the lines of her just being jealous she couldn't fit in my pants.  Boy, was she pissed!

And I don't get tearing someone down just because she's a famous, skinny, rich celebrity. She deserves the same professional respect as anyone else in her chosen field. He was her co-host, one that she helped choose, BTW, and then they don't bother to tell her they are moving him to another show?

Let's say you worked for a company and had an assistant that you selected and trained, and after 4 years of working together, they decided to take your assistant and assign that person to someone else, and don't bother to tell you. You find out at the same time they announce it to the rest of the company. And now you have to help find and train a new assistant. Don't even TRY to tell me you wouldn't be pissed off at the total lack of consideration and respect.

And if she were a man they would have bent over backward to accommodate her. People say sexism doesn't exist, that there is nothing left to fight for. Well maybe not in the world you live in, but in the world of business it's still alive and kicking.

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Um Gaga was talking about Kelly Ripa. Why are you taking it personally? What's beautiful to some may be ugly to others. Geez people. Eat some fruit and relax. Oy

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Um because I am.  And really what's it to you?  I'm entitled to respond to whatever posts I choose.  I am relaxed, but thanks for the concern. 

You know, why are women so catty to each other?? Why did her looks even come up? Her looks had nothing to do with the subject being discussed whatsoever.

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Why can't someone talk about her looks. That's what we do here. I don't care about who responds to what or how  . But I am also allowed to respond too. It's all good.
I'm sure you are all gorgeous.
I think Kelly is cute but I did think she was prettier a few years ago. She looked softer if that makes sense .
I can understand her being upset but she should still go to work .

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 Because "a skeleton with skin" is mean, and I don't agree with the assessment.  We're not allowed to disagree and question the mean spiritedness of the comment?

 

Having the ability to have opinions goes both ways, and applies to the comments made as well.

 

And people call off work for all sorts of reasons all the time.  

-- Edited by Lawyerlady on Friday 22nd of April 2016 11:23:32 AM