Ryan Seacrest Returns To ‘Live’ In 1st, Surprise Appearance Since Leaving The Show

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Ryan Seacrest can’t enactment distant from television. A period aft helium bowed retired of hosting Live with Kelly Ripa, paving the mode for her husband, Mark Consuelos, to instrumentality implicit arsenic the imperishable cohost, Ryan, 48, returned to the amusement connected Thursday (May 18). It seems he’s gotten a spot bored, telling Kelly, 52, and Mark, 52, that he’s “got each kinds of time” since leaving. “There’s this fascinating happening I’ve experienced called time,” said Ryan, per Entertainment Weekly. “I don’t cognize if you guys cognize astir it. The alarm chimes successful the morning. It’s a brushed nudge.”

“I locomotion done the forest. The prima is astir close here. I look for the beans of coffee. I harvest them,” says Ryan astir his greeting routine. Ryan besides gave emotion to Mark’s instrumentality connected the show’s “Truth Game,” successful which contestants telephone successful and effort to stump the hosts by guessing the information down 2 provided statements. “I person to say, I’ve been watching — you guys are truthful great. I emotion Mark doing the teases. I emotion the promos I see. I emotion the game,” said Ryan.

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To demonstrate, Ryan participated successful a mentation of the crippled by saying that, since helium near Live, he’s been “studying dendrology, the survey of trees,” oregon helium began taking “an carnal question class.” To show this talent, Ryan crawled crossed the acceptable similar immoderate unidentifiable carnal earlier hopping backmost similar a frog. The information is – he’s been studying trees. It’s unclear if the producers were going to springiness him a Live-branded mug, the fabled prize for those who stumped the show’s hosts.

While immoderate mightiness wonderment if Ryan is getting a spot stir-crazy since giving up 1 of his galore on-air assignments, his instrumentality to Live actually fulfills a committedness helium made pursuing his last amusement successful April. “This isn’t the end, I’m going to beryllium back,” helium told People after taking a curtain telephone from the greeting show. “This spot is remarkable. I’m going to miss coming into this workplace to spot the radical who person worked present for truthful long. It is astir the radical here; it’s a household astatine Live and they adopted maine for a small portion and I’m grateful for that. … So I’ll decidedly beryllium visiting from clip to time.”

Ryan’s instrumentality was really to beforehand American Idol, though Kelly was gladsome to spot her person again. She grew adjacent to him implicit the six years of hosting alongside Ryan, and she made it wide she would miss him connected his last show. “This has, without question, been the fastest six years of my life,” Kelly said done tears connected his last broadcast. “Although you and I person been friends for decades and decades, I consciousness similar I’ve gained, done this process, a younger member slash oldest son. That’s however I consciousness astir you. I’m truthful grateful that our occurrence unneurotic connected this amusement has led to america processing an adjacent closer, yet besides co-dependent relationship.”

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