Fans Are Calling Out Kelly Ripa for "Lying" About Where She's Been Quarantining
Uh-oh, looks like Kelly Ripa has been telling her fans a bit of a fib and they are not pleased. The Live with Kelly and Ryan host was revealed to have been quarantining in the Caribbean instead of in New York City, where she usually lives and films her talk show, according to People.
Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with quarantining on a beautiful island, but lying about it to your loyal viewers makes this "fib" a bit harder to forgive. The family was apparently vacationing on a Caribbean island when they got orders from ABC to shelter-in-place and, as a result, decided to stay. The news was shared by a fellow ABC employee after Ripa shared her story in a virtual town hall meeting for ABC employees.
"We had planned a trip for our family, and it was supposed to be our entire family of course," said Ripa, according to a source who attended the virtual town hall. "And we arrive and three days later, the entire world changed, really. I mean, everything shut down; the government shut down; our country shut down. I hate to use the word stuck, but we were. We decided to stay where we were."
After getting "stuck," the talk show host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, and their three adult children have stayed put in the Caribbean. And fans had a lot to say about their quarantine experience on Twitter.
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Kelly still acting like she’s in NYC going through the devastation with the millions of others 😏 #livekellyandryan Caribbean life #CoronavirusPandemic #kellyripa pic.twitter.com/Vg1DlJpKVX
— Mz. Chitown 🌬 (@UBigMadLilMad) May 26, 2020
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@LiveKellyRyan very turned off by this show knowing @KellyRipa choose to lie about being stuck in her NYC apartment for 3 months...looking for a new morning show 🤷🏻♀️
— trinca (@Liztrinca) May 26, 2020
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@KellyRipa I love you Kelly but I really think not disclosing where you were during all of this was a mis-step. Your loyal viewers assumed you were in NYC and felt for you being in the hardest hit state. It was just deceiving on your part.
— Laurieanne (@heylaurieanne) May 26, 2020
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Kelly Ripa has pretended to be co-hosting her show from home for the past couple of months. She and her family have actually been holed up in a Caribbean hideaway since March, and she’s still there. She thinks you’re all a bunch of suckers. pic.twitter.com/tbOj4HIU5s
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) May 22, 2020
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She has been giving the impression that she and her family have been in NYC this entire time. Just be honest and not lie by omission. If you’re able to leave to be safer, that’s a good thing...I would do the same thing if I could. The cover up and explaining is worse.
— minicoop (@minicoopRA) May 22, 2020
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I have always loved @LiveKellyRyan and @KellyRipa but feel a little lied to for the past 3 months thinking she was in NYC but it turns out she is in the Caribbean? I know it's her business on what she does, but why not be honest from the beginning?
— Molly Davis (@MollyDavis925) May 22, 2020
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I don’t think there’s anything wrong with her choosing to leave to get away from the Pandemic, since she’s probably safer in the Caribbean than NYC. It’s the lying that bothers me.
— Laura_123 (@Laurie_0) May 24, 2020
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But several retorts agree that it wasn't about where Ripa was staying, rather about her representing herself as being in New York when she obviously wasn't.
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Its not about them being in the caribbean, its about her ‘acting’ like she was in NY at her home. I watch everyday and now i see she intentionally wanted us to think that. She acts ‘very open’ w us but its all apart of the Hollywood trick. I got tricked. Sucks #kellyripa
— MovieMcfly (@MovieMcFly) May 25, 2020
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Although, some Twitter users have called out the fact that it was actually responsible of Ripa and her family to stay put where they were when the quarantine rules went into place, instead of traveling and potentially contributing to the spread of coronavirus.
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So @KellyRipa decided to hold in place, not travel during a lockdown and keep her family out of a virus hotspot and we are mad cause she did it all in a nice place? Get a life! Use your energy better people.
— Keri Gomez (@KeriGomez219) May 25, 2020
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Though the timeline of Ripa's trip to the Caribbean looks questionable, at best, the general consensus seems like all of this could've been avoided if Ripa had said from the get-go that she was in the Caribbean.
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