ABC Execs Apologize as Kelly Ripa Makes Return to ‘Live’

Deadline: Don’t expect sparks to fly when Kelly Ripa returns to “Live with Kelly and Michael” on Tuesday morning, Ripa having receiving apologies from execs across Disney-ABC. Ripa went MIA from the show last week after being informed following Tuesday’s broadcast that Michael Strahan, her co-host of four years, would leave the show in September to work full time at ABC News’s “Good Morning America.”