While I do appreciate a difference of opinion may I point out that Kelly has years of experience working at Live, not Michael. He was a football player for goodness sakes and happens to have had the opportunity to do some sports announcing. He is not an actor, he’s never had to host a live on-air show himself, as Kelly has done when with Regis. Are you aware the same backhandedness occurred when Regis announced his retirement. Kelly was told just 20 minutes before she went on air that morning. Before Kelly was on Live she had been an actor on All My Children with the scripts, long hours, short filming of scenes which all made her the consummate choice when Kathy-Lee left Live. She was a fantastic choice for Live when that occurred years ago now. I recall when she had to ‘do’ the show alone for the first time without Regis and yes, it was certain she was nervous, but her outgoing personality, her honestly and quick humour (which shows intelligence, if you aren’t aware) won over audiences and still does. Anyone who has a huge secret kept from them when there was no real reason NOT to tell the person (and what exactly WAS the reason Kelly wasn’t told – never did have a clear understanding of that despite the media coverage) caused Kelly to feel hurt (and yes, even people on TV have feelings and SHOULD HAVE an expectation of being respected for who they are on the job and also in the relationships they have with the others on a show including management. It was that lack of respect which I found most offensive since it occurs in all levels of the working world. As a nurse who trained in the 1970’s, graduated when Doctors were treated like the God’s they thought they were at the time, over many years – say at least 20, that patriarchal power slowly disappeared when nurses and other staff realized there was a need for equality, a need for respect for the majority of women who were in the hospital workforce. As our education increased, our responsibilities increased (due to doctors deciding they didn’t want to ‘do’ certain procedures, etc.) and thus our voice as a group and individually was more respected until in many areas of a hospital, like Critical Care units, the RN especially was able to work as an equal in such areas. It was a needed and welcome change. As for Kelly, the comments she made when she returned to work were absolutely correct – this was a matter of a lack of respect for her in her job at Life for what over 15 years? Other women in the entertainment world have experienced the lack of being treated equally as men and it’s well known the disparity in salaries exists to today. At a screenwriter’s workshop, I remember Sandy Dennis, director of the movie, My American Cousin, telling us it took her 14 years of pitching to male directors the script. Although it was an excellent one, as the success of the movie proved, she was told over 100 times that as a women she may as well forget the idea of making the movie. She was doggedly determined and succeeded in the face of knowing had she been a man pitching a script, she’d have been treated with appreciation for her talents. She even alluded to the old adage and I suspect the true comment about women needing to ‘be’ on the Director’s couch to land a role. In her case it was for her to have a script accepted as valid and worth investing the dollars into what turned out to be a very, very successful film. So, same goes for Kelly. She needed to make herself heard about this appalling treatment of a host of a long-time show of which SHE is the primary host. The status she has achieved deserves much more then the short-sighted management staff and even Michael offered her and the apologies offered a week later proved she wasn’t wrong in her outrage. So, despite the comment by yourself above, I do disagree and disagree strongly. As a personal note, as a (now retired) former Critical Care RN, I had over 15 years extra education of taking part-time courses, on top of achieving a Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing which took me 5 1/2 years as worked full time and took courses each semester by distance education) meant that I had much more education than say a resident doctor training at our hospital. IF at anytime such a resident tried to make me or any other nurse in our unit feel LESS THAN, we were able to RESPECTFULLY point out the extent of our education and experience to that resident and the fact that he, or she, would be advised to realize what they can learn from us. Same for Michael Strahan, he ‘learned’ how to BE a host on Live because of Kelly and thus has now changed jobs for working at GMA in the future full time. So, he did deserve to be more respectful than he was to his mentor. It was not the other way around. That’s all, but I hope this reply gives you pause for thought and gives you more insight, especially if you are a younger woman and have grown up (so far) not very aware of how women have had to work hard for the respect in the workforce which exists today. Read some historical non-fiction about women in the early 1900’s. It may shock you to realize how things were back then for women even just in the entertainment world. Check back if you do the reading and tell me if your opinion doesn’t shift.