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A Breakdown of Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa’s Awkward Tension on ‘Live! With Kelly and Michael’
Former football player Michael Strahan, right, poses Kelly Ripa on the set of the newly named "Live! with Kelly and Michael" on Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2012 in New York. Strahan joined the popular morning show as a permanent co-host on Tuesday, fulfilling a joking prophecy he made to Regis Philbin more than four years ago. The gap-toothed former New York Giant jogged onto the morning show set and picked up co-host Kelly Ripa in a bear hug, lifting her off her feet. He replaces Philbin, who left last November. Strahan was the survivor in a series of on-air tryouts of potential co-hosts since Philbin left, and his hiring has been an open secret for the past two weeks. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Images)
Things between Michael Strahan and Kelly Ripa have been awkward lately, to say the least.
Between the mother-of-three's boycott from Live! With Kelly and Michael and her on-air digs at the former defensive end, there's been noticeable tension ever since Michael announced his upcoming departure from the talk show. Click through the gallery to see a timeline of the drama.
