{"id":206080,"date":"2025-10-07T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206080\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T02:32:11","slug":"kelly-ripa-gets-very-emotional-honoring-longtime-live-producer-michael-gelman-with-long-overdue-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206080\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Ripa gets &#8216;very emotional&#8217; honoring longtime \u201cLive\u201d producer Michael Gelman with &#8216;long overdue&#8217; award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos honored Michael Gelman at the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ripa said she got &#8220;very emotional&#8221; while honoring her longtime colleague at the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gelman teared up on the air while recalling his family&#8217;s support across a four-decade career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Longtime <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/live-with-kelly-and-mark-8300004\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Live With Kelly and Mark;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Live With Kelly and Mark<\/a> producer <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/mark-consuelos-makes-live-producer-michael-gelman-cry-11772245\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Michael Gelman;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Michael Gelman<\/a> let four decades&#8217; worth of emotion loose when <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/kelly-ripa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Kelly Ripa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Kelly Ripa<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/mark-consuelos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mark Consuelos;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Mark Consuelos<\/a> honored the TV professional Tuesday night at the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame Awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ripa kicked off Wednesday&#8217;s edition of Live by telling the audience about Gelman&#8217;s induction into the organization at the New York City ceremony as the studio crowd applauded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to lie, I got very emotional,&#8221; Ripa told Gelman, who said that he, too, &#8220;got emotional during&#8221; the couple&#8217;s speeches to him at the event.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Manoli Figetakis\/Getty Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0b0fabf44ba72cd9fb3e7449719c32cb.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Manoli Figetakis\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ripa told Gelman that &#8220;it was a pleasure and a privilege&#8221; for her to honor him at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;We don&#8217;t leave the house very often, and any time I have to put on makeup at 6 p.m., I resent it, but I&#8217;ve got to tell you, you could&#8217;ve been inducted into that Hall of Fame 50 times by now,&#8221; Ripa said. &#8220;And the fact that we&#8217;ve just gotten around to it, it&#8217;s long overdue and so well deserved. It was a real pleasure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gelman then recounted his 42-year tenure at the show and the various iterations of the storied production that&#8217;s been the broadcast home of personalities like Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Ryan Seacrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Talk shows come and go,&#8221; observed Consuelos. &#8220;The fact that you&#8217;ve been able to keep this show going? When something looks easy, it&#8217;s usually because it&#8217;s really, really not. Michael Gelman, I&#8217;ve got to tell you, you&#8217;ve mastered the art of keeping this show relevant, fun, happy, with different iterations. Could you ever imagine I&#8217;d be sitting here? You made this work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gelman then praised the show&#8217;s behind-the-scenes staff for their work on the program, too.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Ripa reminded him, however, that &#8220;it starts at the top,&#8221; and praised him for being &#8220;able to keep the same people&#8221; working on the show over the years. That includes, she said, a staffer who still refers to her as &#8220;the new girl&#8221; despite her 25-year tenure there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gelman said he did &#8220;get flustered at the end&#8221; of his speech, and &#8220;got emotional when I started talking about my family, which I am again,&#8221; he said, as he paused while tears welled in his eyes.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Manoli Figetakis\/Getty Michael Gelman\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/01e5f31f4a7e4c81d072d9accb556947.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Manoli Figetakis\/Getty<\/p>\n<p> Michael Gelman<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The cohosts ended the tribute by again telling Gelman that the award &#8220;was well deserved,&#8221; Consuelos said, while Ripa told him she&#8217;s &#8220;very, very proud&#8221; of the work he&#8217;s done with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/forms.dotdashmeredith.com\/ew-tv-inline-offer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly&#039;s\u00a0free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly&#8217;s\u00a0free daily newsletter<\/a>\u00a0to get breaking news, exclusive first looks, recaps, reviews, interviews with your favorite stars, and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A native of New York City, Gelman, 64, has won a Daytime Emmy for his work on Live, where he&#8217;s worked ever since boarding Philbin&#8217;s prior talk show, The Morning Show, before it evolved into Live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Live With Kelly and Mark\u00a0airs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings for showtimes in your area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/kelly-ripa-emotional-live-producer-michael-gelman-award-11822100\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Key Points Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos honored Michael Gelman at the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88,11857,47260,11858,13247],"class_list":{"0":"post-206080","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-kelly-ripa","11":"tag-live-with-kelly-and-mark","12":"tag-mark-consuelos","13":"tag-michael-gelman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}