Kelly Ripa brings her national 'Live Wire' book tour to Louisville. Here's what to expect

Kirby Adams, Louisville Courier Journal
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Emmy Award-winning daytime host and actress Kelly Ripa is taking a few personal days away from her usual Monday to Friday gig on "Live with Kelly and Ryan" to celebrate the release of her first book, "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories" (Dey Street Books/HarperCollins Publishers.)

Ripa will swing through Louisville with her "Live Wire Book Tour" for a performance at the Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway. The show starts at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 9. Tickets start at $30 and are available at kentuckycentre.org

Her book, "Live Wire," is a series of personal essays laid out across 14 chapters. During her book tour, Ripa will share stories from those essays on stage. In Louisville, she'll be joined by actor Justin Sylvester.

Audiences can expect Ripa to tell stories about her childhood in New Jersey, and her years as an actress on the soap opera "All My Children." She'll talk about meeting her husband Mark Consuelos, also an actor in "All My Children," and their own three children.

The talk show host doesn't mince words when talking about, eh, chauvinism, she experienced while working in media. And undoubtedly you'll hear about Ripa's relationship with the late Regis Philbin, her first co-host on "Live."

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"The biggest misconception about my place on the show was that Regis had hand-selected me, guided me and was my best friend, and the left, after which I never spoke to him again," she writes in "Live Wire: Long Winded Short Stories."

On stage and in her book, Ripa shares more than a few embarrassing incidents that prove even being on screen five days a week doesn’t protect you from self-induced humiliation. And that you actually can not die of embarrassment.

Reach features reporter Kirby Adams at kadams@courier-journal.com.

Live Wire Book Tour

WHAT: Emmy Award-winning daytime host and actress Kelly Ripa is bringing her book tour "Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories," to Louisville.

WHEN: Sunday, Oct. 9 at 2 p.m.

WHERE: Brown Theatre, 315 W. Broadway

COST: $29.95- $64.35

MORE INFORMATION: kentuckyperformingarts.org

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