David Muir joined ABC News in 2003, and though it’s not clear when Kelly Ripa first watched one of his newscasts, she did say that she was immediately obsessed. “I remember when I first saw David Muir file a report for World News Tonight. I didn’t know him at all,” Ripa told her co-host, Ryan Seacrest during an airing of “Live.” By that point, Muir had long since proved his journalistic skills. A graduate of Ithica College and native of Syracuse, New York, Muir investigated and reported on serious events like September 11, 2001, Hurricane Katrina, and hard news in Ukraine, Israel, and Haiti.
Suffice to say, Ripa was impressed. “I immediately cracked into the ABC News system email,” she told her co-host, “which you’re not supposed to use unless it’s for news. And I wrote: “Dude. You looked amazing tonight. Don’t know what was going on. Looked kinda dangerous where you are. But just wanted to let you know that you looked amazing. I had the volume down.” And that’s where it all began.
