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Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan — Plus More TV Co-Hosts Who Didn’t Get Along Off Camera

Jan 16, 2017 1:16 pm·

Talk show hosts look like they’re best buds on TV, but how they act off screen can be an entirely different story. From Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan‘s feud on Live! to all the drama on The View — see which famous TV co-hosts didn’t get along so well off camera.

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When it comes to Kelly and Michael, fans were shocked when the two co-hosts had a falling out that unfolded on the cover of tabloids and websites. However, Michael said that most of the hoopla was exaggerated and were simply not true.

“The most disappointing thing to me was that I was painted as the bad guy, because I value the way I carry myself,” he told People in 2016. “I don’t want people to see me as ‘Oh, he just ran out, just left them there.’ That’s just not true.”

Hmm, we doubt Kelly agrees with that!

Check out the gallery below to see TV co-hosts who did not get along off screen.

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Live!'s Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan

After Michael abruptly announced he was leaving the show without telling Kelly, the former co-hosts became locked in a bitter feud, with Kelly later saying Michael's actions "lacked respect."

“At one point I think we were friends. I don’t know what happened at the end," Michael said in 2016. “Toward the end of it all, we didn’t really communicate that much."

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Fashion Police's Kelly Osbourne and Giuliana Rancic

“I will never admit to liking Giuliana because I don’t," Kelly said in 2015. "I don’t think she’s a good person, and I think she’s a liar.”

The former co-hosts had a falling out shortly after Giuliana came under fire for insensitive comments made about teen pop star Zendaya. "I do not condone racism," Kelly tweeted right before announcing her exit.

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The Talk's Leah Remini and Sharon Osbourne

After being booted from the show, Leah took to Twitter, where she blamed her outing on her former co-host.

"Sharon thought me and Holly [Robinson Peete] were 'ghetto'… we were not funny, awkward and didn't know ourselves," she wrote on Twitter. "She has the power that was given to her."

Sharon denied having anything to do with Leah's departure.

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Today's Ann Curry and Matt Lauer

Shortly after Ann's controversial dismissal from the show, New York magazine published a scathing report that detailed exactly what happened behind the scenes.

"[Matt] simply didn’t like her," the report stated. "Off air, Curry and Lauer had no relationship and barely spoke. When she started, Curry had asked Lauer out for lunch to get advice, but Lauer seemed to drag his feet scheduling it and Curry felt he didn’t offer much."

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Mythbusters' Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman

"Jamie and I make no bones about the fact that we're not friends," Adam said back in 2016. "We don't get along very well together on a personal level. In 25 years we've known each other, we've never had dinner alone together. We do not choose to hang out if we don't have to be in proximity."

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American Idol's Ryan Seacrest and Brian Dunkleman

Although Brian only appeared on the first season of the popular singing show, he was invited back to the show in 2016 for the finale.

"I [went to see Ryan] before rehearsal in his dressing room," Brian had told reporters. "I said, ‘I have to get this out but, I want to apologize to you for all the times we didn't get along back then.' I told him that I wished I could go back and change that but I can't."

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What Not to Wear's Clinton Kelly and Stacy London

“I either adored her or despised her and never anything in between,” Clinton wrote in his memoir, I Hate Everyone, Except You. “We spent nearly sixty hours a week in captivity, rarely more than an arm’s length away from each other. Trust me when I tell you that is just too much time to spend with any other human being you didn’t choose of your own free will.”

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Fox and Friends' Steve Doocy and Gretchen Carlson

In 2016, Gretchen filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Fox News. In the suit, she alleged that her former co-anchor often treated her “in a sexist and condescending way” and would even mock her during commercial breaks, "attempting to put her in her place by refusing to treat her as an intelligent and insightful female journalist rather than a blond female prop.”

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The View's Rosie O'Donnell and Whoopi Goldberg

Although they played nice on the show, after several heated debates, it became hard for the two co-hosts to hide their dislike for each other, which prompted Rosie to quit the show (again) in 2015.

“I think Rosie and Whoopi together was not peaches and cream,” producer Barbara Walters said of the incident back in 2015. “And I don’t think we needed the two of them together. It was not a combination that I would have thought was a natural.”

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The Real's Tamar Braxton and former co-hosts, Adrienne Bailon, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai, and Tamera Mowry.

When Tamar was abruptly fired from the talk show in 2016, her former co-hosts said they had nothing to do with her outing. But Tamar posted and deleted many cryptic messages on her social media accounts that alluded to "former friends."

"I have to pay attention to why God removed me from [the show],” she said back in 2016. “And I believe he removed me from that situation to protect me from that situation.”

After ongoing social media feuds, Adrienne and Loni both stopped following Tamar on Twitter.

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Access Hollywood's Pat O'Brien and Nancy O'Dell

In his memoir, I'll Be Back After This, he claimed his former co-anchor never read a book “cover to cover."

"She could read a teleprompter with the best of them; the problem was she never knew what she was saying,” he wrote.

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