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Although Ryan Seacrest was missing during Live with Kelly and Ryan‘s at-home broadcast on May 18, 2020, he returned the following day to thank co-host Kelly Ripa‘s husband, Mark Consuelos, for taking his place. “I want to thank Mark for filling in yesterday,” Seacrest said (per Page Six). “He’s so good at it, also, all the very kind well-wishes for my exhaustion, working around the clock.”
Prior to the coronavirus pandemic, Seacrest travelled back and forth to satisfy his bi-coastal duties, but even though he must now remain stationary in the physical sense, Seacrest is still on the move when it comes to his responsibilities. He completed the American Idol season from behind the original judges’ desk and, as he told People, he’s had to adjust to the limitations of the show’s part-live, part-taped hybrid approach.
“We put the show together earlier in the week because there are so many factors to it,” he said. “Every once in a while we have to be careful not to step on each other while we’re talking because there’s that delay that we’ve all experienced talking to our families at home on different Zooms and things like that.”
That sounds tricky, and we get it. We’re all in this together and, quite frankly, we’re exhausted, too!
Written by: Nicki
