Michael Strahan Officially Joins "Good Morning America"
by Ariana Bacle
Apr 15, 2014


Former New York Giant and current "Live! with Kelly and Michael" co-host Michael Strahan is officially joining the "Good Morning America" team after a months-long negotiation with ABC News.

Strahan stopped by the "Good Morning America" set Tuesday morning for the announcement — and to receive both an alarm clock from George Stephanopoulos and a giant coffee cup from Lara Spencer, which should help out with his new extra-early wakeup time.

He will join the show a few days a week while still maintaining his "Live!" co-hosting duties.

http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/04/15/michael-strahan-good-morning-america-official/

Disney/ABC boss Ben Sherwood has been blamed for the drama surrounding Michael Strahan's exit from "Live" (https://t.co/s5PpmdP1vg)

Estranged Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan will work "feet away from each other," leaving ABC staffers on edge (https://nypost.com/2025/04/24/media/kelly-ripa-michael-strahan-have-abc-staffers-on-edge-sources/?)

Ripa and Strahan co-hosted Live from 2012 to 2016, when ABC hired him away to co-host Good Morning America, which angered Ripa. Nearly a decade later, Ripa and Strahan will work under the same roof with Good Morning America moving to the Times Square studio that Live recently moved into. “They will be feet away from each other — he will be able to smell her perfume,” an ABC insider tells the New York Post. “The staff is on tenterhooks. These two do not speak.”