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Fans Are Calling Out Kelly Ripa for "Lying" About Where She's Been Quarantining

From Good Housekeeping

Uh-oh, looks like Kelly Ripa has been telling her fans a bit of a fib and they are not pleased. The Live with Kelly and Ryan host was revealed to have been quarantining in the Caribbean instead of in New York City, where she usually lives and films her talk show, according to People.

Of course, there's nothing inherently wrong with quarantining on a beautiful island, but lying about it to your loyal viewers makes this "fib" a bit harder to forgive. The family was apparently vacationing on a Caribbean island when they got orders from ABC to shelter-in-place and, as a result, decided to stay. The news was shared by a fellow ABC employee after Ripa shared her story in a virtual town hall meeting for ABC employees.

"We had planned a trip for our family, and it was supposed to be our entire family of course," said Ripa, according to a source who attended the virtual town hall. "And we arrive and three days later, the entire world changed, really. I mean, everything shut down; the government shut down; our country shut down. I hate to use the word stuck, but we were. We decided to stay where we were."

After getting "stuck," the talk show host and her husband, Mark Consuelos, and their three adult children have stayed put in the Caribbean. And fans had a lot to say about their quarantine experience on Twitter.

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But several retorts agree that it wasn't about where Ripa was staying, rather about her representing herself as being in New York when she obviously wasn't.

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Although, some Twitter users have called out the fact that it was actually responsible of Ripa and her family to stay put where they were when the quarantine rules went into place, instead of traveling and potentially contributing to the spread of coronavirus.

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Though the timeline of Ripa's trip to the Caribbean looks questionable, at best, the general consensus seems like all of this could've been avoided if Ripa had said from the get-go that she was in the Caribbean.

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