OHMYGOSSIP — Kelly Ripa admires Ryan Seacrest’s “authenticity”.
The 50-year-old TV star hosts ‘Live with Kelly and Ryan’ alongside the 45-year-old presenter, and she’s admitted that working with him is a “great privilege”.
She said: “It is a joy, and I have to say that it is a rare thing to work with a guy who is so authentic and fun and joyful and humble and generous and kind to everyone.
“What you see of Ryan on the air is the person he is backstage, which is a unique thing.
“He just brings joyfulness and enthusiasm and professionalism and an authenticity to this place that I’m just so grateful to have here.”
Kelly also joked that they have a “weird co-dependency”.
Speaking to ‘Entertainment Tonight’, she explained: “What’s interesting is we usually text each other 15 times before the show. Yet we still have things to say on the air, which is weird.
“It’s a weird co-dependency. We’re happy to have our psychiatric episodes unfold before everyone on live TV.”
Ryan acknowledges that their friendship extends well beyond their on-screen success.
He said: “We do a television show, but it’s not just a television show.
“We come in and we literally have our first cup of coffee together and catch up with each other as friends do, and that’s the dynamic we hope we have with people who are watching as well.”
Meanwhile, Kelly hailed Ryan for remaining humble despite his success in the TV industry.
She insisted Ryan hasn’t allowed his fame and fortune to change him.
Kelly shared: “He’s not spoiled, the way a lot of people get spoiled really, when they get their fancy job – and by fancy I mean like, you know, a show-business-y job.
“Ryan has not been jaded or made cynical by a job that often makes people cynical or jaded immediately.”
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