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Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories

by Kelly Ripa

Personal stories from on- and offscreen

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Personal stories from on- and offscreen

Kelly Ripa’s collection brings together real-life stories spanning her work in entertainment and her roles as a wife, daughter, and mother. The subjects range from her first meeting with Mark to chauvinism on a television set, Jersey pride, and moments of embarrassment. Humor and observations about everyday absurdities connect these accounts, giving the book a personal frame across professional and family life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of Kelly Ripa interested in stories from her life beyond daytime television.
  • Readers seeking personal essays about entertainment work, family roles, and everyday mishaps.

Themes

Life in entertainmentFamily and relationshipsRegional identityEmbarrassment and everyday absurdity

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Book overview

Instant New York Times bestseller

A sharp, funny, and honest collection of real-life stories from Kelly Ripa, showing the many dimensions and crackling wit of the beloved daytime talk show host.

"This laugh-out-loud book is a must-read for Ripa's legions of fans." --Bustle

"Ripa has a penchant for name-dropping and rambling (or, as she puts it, making a 'long story, longer'), but her essays are unapologetic, uninhibited, and undeniably hilarious. This banter-filled collection will delight daytime television devotees." --Publishers Weekly

In Live Wire, her first book, Kelly shows what really makes her tick. As a professional, as a wife, as a daughter and as a mother, she brings a hard-earned wisdom and an eye for the absurdity of life to every minute of every day. It is her relatability in all of these roles that has earned her fans worldwide and millions of followers on social media. Whether recounting how she and Mark really met, the level of chauvinism she experienced on set, how Jersey Pride follows her wherever she goes, and many, many moments of utter mortification (whence she proves that you cannot, in fact, die of embarrassment) Kelly always tells it like it is. Ms. Ripa takes no prisoners.

Surprising, at times savage, a little shameless and always with humor... Live Wire shows Kelly as she really is offscreen--a very wise woman who has something to say.

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