Ryan Seacrest’s final ‘Stay’ is ‘terribly emotional’
Ryan Seacrest’s “Stay” departure was fairly the teary goodbye, his now former cohost Kelly Ripa shares.
Seacrest’s sendoff aired Friday after six seasons of sitting by Ripa’s facet. Ripa’s husband and former “All My Kids” love curiosity, Mark Consuelos, will step in as her everlasting co-host Monday.
“You took this LA stranger and made me a part of your loved ones and welcomed me into this well-oiled machined that you’ve led for therefore a few years. This can be a particular place,” Seacrest stated throughout Friday’s present.
In an interview Thursday, simply after Seacrest’s finale was taped, Ripa, a “Stay” cohost since 2001, described his farewell as “very, terribly emotional.” Consuelos, seated by his spouse for the interview, suggested viewers to “carry your tissue containers.”
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Tears flowed earlier than Ripa and Seacrest filmed the ultimate present
Ripa, 52, says she and Seacrest, 48, teased one another about how emotional they’d be.
“Like, ‘No, you are gonna cry.’ ‘No, I am not gonna cry. You are gonna cry,” she says. “After which we had been like, ‘No one’s going to cry. As a result of if we begin crying, then our dad and mom will cry, and your sister will cry. We will maintain it collectively. We’re going to maintain it skilled.’”
However moments earlier than the ultimate present, the cohosts could not maintain the tears from coming.
“We had been backstage ready for Déjà (Vu Parker) to make the ultimate announcement, and I checked out him, and we simply locked eyes,” says Ripa. “And I used to be like, ‘Oh my gosh! This sucks!’ After which we each began crying, and I was like, ‘No! No! We aren’t crying earlier than we get on the market. It should be a catastrophe!'”
Ripa cried considering it might be the final time she walked out with Seacrest, whom she affectionately calls “Ry-Ry.”
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Why is Ryan Seacrest leaving ‘Stay?’
Seacrest introduced his departure on air in February, and he plans to maneuver again to the West Coast (“Stay” airs from New York) and proceed his duties internet hosting “American Idol” and “Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin’ Eve with Ryan Seacrest.” He’ll return often to visitor host.
When Seacrest introduced he was leaving, “Stay” was already ready to introduce his alternative, revealing Consuelos can be Ripa’s new sidekick on the present.
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Regardless of the tears surrounding Seacrest’s departure, Friday’s “Stay” kicked off with laughs as clips performed of Seacrest falling out of his chair on air, difficult trivia and a throwback of Seacrest when he was a visitor on the present in 2005 – full with frosted blonde ideas in his hair.
“How about all of our hair,” Seacrest stated. “I imply, mine was identical to yours.”
Throughout the 2000s-era clip, Consuelos sat within the chair subsequent to Ripa as her visitor co-host. Seacrest stated the clip was “so humorous” contemplating that Ripa and Consuelos will likely be internet hosting collectively once more after his departure.
“I’ll come again as a visitor,” Seacrest stated.
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First girl Jill Biden was the visitor for Seacrest’s final day at “Stay,” and Seacrest referred to as on her to offer their present a presidential score.
“Has (the present) ever been on within the White Home?” Seacrest requested.
Biden who referred to as Seacrest’s exit “bittersweet,” stated “after all” the present has been on on the president’s residence.
“And what’s your large takeaway? While you watch it do you say, ‘My gosh, is there every other channel?'” Ripa stated.
Biden quipped, “That is precisely what we are saying.”
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Ripa says ‘elementary relationship’ with Seacrest will not change
Ripa says she’ll miss Seacrest’s “enthusiasm, his pleasure, his kindness, his generosity.” And likewise his humorousness and their potential to speak with out saying a phrase.
“I do not suppose loads will change about our elementary relationship. We simply will not be having a chat present on TV each morning,” Ripa says. “So it isn’t as terrifying as it might be if it was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I liked working with this man, and now he is gone.’ I do know we’ll nonetheless see one another on the holidays. We’ll nonetheless journey collectively.”
And it helps that her husband, with whom she’ll have a good time 27 years of marriage subsequent month, is entering into Seacrest’s footwear.
“I went from good arms to good arms,” she says. “I am unable to be extra grateful for this transition, as a result of I went from working with certainly one of my very favourite folks on this planet to working with my very favourite particular person on this planet.”
Seacrest and Consuelos did a ceremonious “passing of the mug” to commemorate the cohost transition on Friday’s present.
“When the transition was occurring one of many first cellphone calls I obtained was from Ryan. I will always remember your phrases of kindness and help and reassurance,” Consuelos informed Seacrest in entrance of the studio viewers. “I really like you.”
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Contributing: Kelly Lawler
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