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"Michael Strahan will reportedly be announced as Kelly Ripa&amp;#039;s permanent co-host on Live! with Kelly next month. The NFL star has appeared as guest host on the ABC morning chatshow on nine separate occasions this year and was first rumoured to be the frontrunner for the job in May.    TMZ now reports that Strahan has been confirmed for the role and will be the name announced to replace Regis Philbin when the new season begins next month. Philbin exited the show in November 2011 after nearly 25 years, and Live! with Kelly has since seen several celebrity guest hosts appear, including Martin Short, Kim Kardashian and Donald Trump.  Ripa recently joked that she would love Anderson Cooper as her co-host but that he is unable to do so due to having two series of his own currently.  The presenter joined Live! with Regis and Kelly in 2001. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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