14 DAY TRIAL // For the third year in a row, The Hollywood Reporter is celebrating excellence in television by naming its Powerful People in Media. Kelly Ripa is one of them.
“They are courted by presidents and despots, Hollywood heavyweights and superstar athletes. Their decisions, tastes and every last word drive thoughts and behaviors and set a national agenda in ways far more powerful than any 140 characters strung together ever could,” THR writes in the preview issue.
They are no longer the men and women who deliver the news: they have long become the news themselves.
Check out the video below to see who else made it on the list – and how cute and lovable Kelly was during the photoshoot.
The list also includes Barbara Walters, Piers Morgan, Anderson Cooper, David Letterman, Bill O’Reilly, Robin Roberts, Roger Ailes and Jeff Zucker, among others.