Live’s Kelly Ripa and guest co-host Josh Groban admit to ‘hosting without pants’ during revealing live segment

LIVE’S Kelly Ripa and her guest co-host Josh Groban have admitted this week to hosting “without pants on.”

The two have made the NSFW reveal during an episode of the talk show this past week, while usual co-host Ryan Seacrest was absent.

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At the start of Tuesday’s show, Kelly reminded her guest co-host Josh that he hadn’t been on the show in a little while.

After the two gushed about missing each other, Josh said that he remembers videoing into the show during the pandemic.

“That’s a weird thing,” he said of being on Live not in person but via video.

Kelly, though, said she absolutely “loved it.”

The host then revealed: “Everyone here knows, I was unashamed in my love for shooting the show from home. Without pants on. 

“It was just so great to have a bowl of cereal in between legs and like go to commercial break and just like [digging in].”

After hearing Kelly share, Josh felt free to reveal he would do the same, calling it “so disconcerting.”

He went on: “I’m in a jacket blazer and button-down shirt, and they’re like, ‘OK, Josh, we’re gonna have you wave to Time Square in three, two, one.”

And then he revealed he would not be “wearing any pants” as he waved to the crowd via live video.

Kelly then added: “I don’t know why I thought, and I still think, that everybody– because a lot of shows you’ll see people are still Skyping in. 

“And I always assume they’re wearing pants, but I should know better. None of those people are wearing pants.”

“They’re not,” Josh said, before joking: “Nobody in the audience here is wearing pants today, so it’s still [a thing].”

Though Ryan was out from the talk show on Tuesday, he returned for Wednesday’s new episode.

He was present for both another NSFW comment made by his co-host, as well as one from one of their guests of the day: Emma Thompson.

When the actress, 63, came out onto the stage, she danced and shimmied the whole way over to the hosts.

Ryan exclaimed: “That’s the way you enter the show!”

Kelly, meanwhile, joked: “I would’ve tapped your bottom if I wouldn’t have gotten hit with an HR complaint.”

Then, after talking a bit about the star’s upcoming Netflix film, Matilda: The Musical, Ryan congratulated Emma on her recent movie, Good Luck To You, Leo Grande.

“That must have been a fun role,” he said.

Emma shared: “She was such fun to play, you know.

“Ex-religion education teacher. She’s done everything right. She’s been a really good girl and then she goes, ‘but I’ve never had an orgasm.'”

The actress then stopped after she realized what she said and asked: “Are you allowed to say orgasm on breakfast television?”

Kelly quickly encouraged her with an enthusiastic, “Yes!”

“Okay good, because a few years ago, you probably wouldn’t have been allowed to,” the actress said.

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