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EXCLUSIVE: Live With Regis & Kelly co-host Kelly Ripa was with WME, and her husband Mark Consuelos was with Innovative. CAA’s Bryan Lourd not only signed them but also their production company Milojo Productions, which has made several shows for TLC. The question now is whether Consuelos might replace Regis Philbin as Kelly’s co-host. In a recent People magazine poll, Consuelos scored big over other contenders like Survivor‘s Jeff Probst.
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Bad choice to replace Regis ..
What happened to Jim Ornstein her agent? Fired, hired, new job?
I hear he reps NFL MVP and Super Bowl winner Kurt Warner now. Plus Super Bowl winner Tony Siragusa and a host of other athletes-turned-broadcasters.
Tony makes no money. Say 100k/year. That’s 10k/year for the agency. Come on now. What gives. I checked out his list. He has always had one client. Never budged. And that is good enough. So he’s not a mover shaker. Can’t a guy be average and enjoy his life. He’s a super duper fella. Hear me, kiddo?
All of your “facts” are incorrect. Jeff Van Gundy, Kurt Warner, Strahan, Siragusa and many more athletes and entertainers are all clients of Jim Ornstein, whether or not your thoroughly in-depth 2-second Google search returned that info (and their correct salaries). As Joseph Pulitzer would chide you, “Accuracy, accuracy, accuracy.”
What a life for these two. All day long they get to mix business with pleasure AND get paid for it. Fantastic. Now that’s what I call living the American dream.
Did Bryan sign Jim Ornstein too? He made Kelly a megastar.
Nobody made Kelly a star.
Here is what happened. She was trying out like about of others. She won the job and needed a new agent. So Jim as a little agent signed her. He got on the phone, took the offer with a WMA attorney on the phone and said, yes. We’ll take it. Then Kelly’s electric personality and talent made people like her.
That simple. Don’t over complicate. In fact, at WME they are not allowed to sign clients unless they ear over 200k/year. That says it right there. WE DON’T DISCOVER TALENT. Kelly was already a star on a Soap. She left her agent and went with WMA the day the offer came in, moron.
Ta-da.
The sad thing is, this isn’t even a loss for Innovative. They must be glad to have Consuelos off their back. And this really makes Kelly look sleazy…leave your agent of many years so your husband can also get an agent at CAA.
Or maybe Bryan Lourd is the sleaziest one: Mark, get your wife to sign with us and I’ll represent you, too
And they switched because their careers were going so badly? Whenever a longtime client shows disloyalty by switching agents for no real reason it just tells you how naive the client is. Longtime clients traditionally do better because everyone is so much more vested. Guess beauty and brains don’t go together.
If Consuelos replaces Regis it would be an epic train wreck!
I hope your next article is “CAA hires Jim Ornstein”
Seriously. Jim methodically built her career. If she’s not careful she’ll be back on local Philly dance show, Dancing On Air.
Keep in mind that Ornstein has never commissioned Kelly on Live. It was WMA package but Jim Griffin got credit for all the commissions.
Kelly WAS one of the most loyal people in the business. I can’t believe she would fire Jim. This may be the beginning of the end for the Ripa brand.
I’m sure Jim is making a deal to leave WME for CAA. Kelly is too smart (and loyal) to fire him, especially now when she needs him the most. The future of “Live” rests on her shoulders. If Mark replaces Regis and the ratings dive, then so will their marriage/empire. Jim is too smart to let that happen.
Glenn Beck is free.
Let me guess. She left one of the greatest guys in the business, Jim Ornstein, because CAA promised that if she did, they’d give her husband his first non-LifetimeTV acting gig in a decade.
Mark Consuelos should be happy w/ whatever he has b/c had it not been for Kelly’s luck getting that job w/ Regis, he’d be just another ex soap star making movies for Oxygen and WE. Kelly will take Regis’s seat and they will replace the old man w/ one of the Male Radio Stars they featured a few months back. I can’t remember his name except that he was also on DWTS. Kelly will simply refuse to sit alongside anyone that overshadows her. Ego thy name is Kelly Rips. Remember, kids, I said it here first.
Consuelos did a HORRIBLE movie for Oxygen in 2008 called “Husband Fire Hire.” It was so bad that it killed original movies at Oxygen (no loss there). His career has dived from his Soap days to near extinction. If he thinks CAA will turn it around, good luck! All they care about is Kelly. Mark is lucky, lucky, lucky to have a wife who is a money machine. And… yes… Mike Catherwood is in the running to replace Regis.
This is sad. Jim protected Kelly. Now she and her hubby will be thrown to the wolves.
What happened to her superstar agent Jim Ornstein who she is always talking about on the show? He’s been with her since she was just a soap actress and has made her the household name she is today!
Does her agent have any other clients?
Jim Ornstein helped make Kelly who she is today. He also introduced her to the Electrolux. Why would she want to leave WME?Her loss. Not his. Now he can find the next It Girl!
Don’t you usually stick with the same people who helped you on the way up to the top? Seems like it to me. I always liked Kelly but this just doesn’t seem kosher.
Kelly should take a page from Regis’ book who has had the same agent since before she was born!
Not so much, actually. A few months ago, Regis, who had left WME to follow his long time agent Jim Griffin to Paradigm fired Jim to go to…wait for it… WME. So it goes.
What TLC shows of theirs are on the air? I haven’t seen any. Maybe a one-time pilot here or there. I know they had a Lifetime show last week, but that appeared to be a one-off.
In the business, Jim Ornstein is beloved, and admired. And no one can deny- surely Kelly will not- that he was responsible for a great part of her success. The classiest of celebs stay with the agents who made them – like Harrison Ford. While people do change their representatives all the time, it is still shocking and sad to see someone pushed aside after so many years. Not sad for Ornstein’s future, though- he made Kelly’s huge deals and orchestrated her career since her beginnings. . He can surely do it again, many times over.
She’s not with Jim Ornstein anymore?? That seems crazy! He was such a huge factor in her success.
Kelly Ripa is a fool. The amount of money Ornstein made her over her career is immeasurable, and yes, he did ‘make’ her. Can’t wait to see what Bryan Lourd does with her…does she have dreams of being the next Seacrest? I think she’s a greedy fool.
The most successful people in this business have Loyalty. I thought Kelly was on the A-list, but now, it appears, she’s graduated to the D-list.
Sounds like a savvy move to me and a great package deal. After X amount of years its always good for a change. When theres change it sniffs of complacency. Sorry WME, sounds like you were sleeping at the wheel.
Who else thinks this happened because her loser husband who was at innovative and never really works had bryan lourd say he would get attention as an actor at caa if they BOTH signed across the board. I can’t believe though kelly would allow herself to be a puppet in this and screw over the guy who helped build up your career. No loyalty. He always seemed slimey but now think she’s worse
FYI Regis did fire his agent. In this business Bryan Lourd is King and Kelly and Mark happen to be very beloved for a reason.
Let’s just wait and see how “beloved” Kelly & Mark will be in five years.