With Kelly. She has a younger sister, Linda Ripa, who is a children’s author. Later that year, Ripa appeared as a guest host on the long-running talk show Live with Regis and Kathie Lee. Hope & Faith ran for three seasons, before a ratings decline led to its cancellation. in June 2004, Ripa agreed to continue as Live co-host for at least five more years, at a salary that the tabloid-television show Extra reported was $8 million a year. in 2009, Ripa appeared on the PBS children’s series The Electric Company in the role of Wednesday Jones, a private investigator.