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Kelly Ripa, one of daytime television's most recognizable faces, is back in the spotlight and this time not as a host but as an executive producer.

Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos have teamed up to produce a brand new docuseries Squatters: Get the F*** Out of My House which is now streaming on Hulu. It follows the story of homeowners whose properties have been taken over by squatters and the legal battles that follow.

As the series gains attention, many are also curious about Ripa's career earnings and overall net worth.

Ripa's path to daytime television royalty began in the 1990s when she played Hayley Vaughan on the ABC soap opera All My Children, a role she held from 1990 to 2002 that earned her multiple Daytime Emmy nominations.

In 2001, she was chosen to replace Kathie Lee Gifford as co-host alongside Regis Philbin on Live! with Regis and Kelly. After Philbin's retirement in 2011, the show went through several co-hosts including Michael Strahan and Ryan Seacrest, before rebranding in 2023 as Live with Kelly and Mark, with Consuelos joining as her permanent co-host.

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“The title didn't come out of nowhere. This is what these very frustrated homeowners keep saying because they are so desperate,” Ripa told ABC Audio.

Consuelos explained that the squatters featured in the show are skilled at finding legal loopholes. “They're so good at finding the loopholes in the law to frustrate the owners of the homes,” he said.

He also said some of the stories in the series are hard to believe. For example, homeowners would go back to check on a house they had sold and find several families living there. Those families believed they had legally rented the property from someone who falsely claimed to be the owner.

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While the couple has never personally dealt with squatters, Ripa said a close friend who owns properties in California has lived with the problem for years. “There's so many times that he has leased a property to a tenant who's never paid rent and then he cannot evict them and so it is a part of his life,” she told ABC Audio.

Ripa added that the issue is far more widespread than people think. “It is very common. I keep saying we could do episodes not just in each state, we could do episodes in every county of every state or in every borough,” she said. “It's not a unique thing.”