Kelly Ripa reveals she's stopped drinking since co-hosting 'Live' with Ryan Seacrest

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Kelly Ripa revealed she has quit drinking alcohol.

On Monday's episode of "Live with Kelly and Ryan," the 49-year-old Emmy winner joked there was a downtick in total wine purchased in 2019.

"They are saying Americans bought less wine in the last year," she told co-host Ryan Seacrest. "It's the first drop in a quarter of a century. Now, I believe this is because I quit drinking, that I caused this slip. I have influenced the market."

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"I'm not saying I've driven people out," she added. "I'm saying I stopped buying wine and there's a 25 percent dip."

Seacrest, who became her co-host in 2017, quipped, “I started the show and she quit drinking. What does that tell you?”

Ripa didn't further explain why she chose to stop drinking a few years ago. Meanwhile, according to a New York Times interview last year, Seacrest loves his wine. He told the outlet he breaks his strict diet and enjoys himself on the weekends.

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"During the week, it's impossible, but Fridays and Saturdays, it's fantastic to have a two-hour meal, family-style, with a fantastic bottle of wine," Seacrest said.

Ripa has previously spoken about her strict diet.

“It has changed my life, it’s changed the whole way I think about food,” Ripa said in 2015 of the high-alkaline diet she follows, which focuses on vegetables like beets, broccoli, cucumbers, kale, kiwis and bell peppers while avoiding acidic foods like yogurt, fish and sugar.

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“I like to drink coffee. I occasionally will have fish. The alkaline diet is primarily a vegan diet, but I like cream in my coffee. I like to have a glass of wine,” she added at the time. “So I don’t adhere to it strictly, but when I do a cleanse, it will be seven days, and then I go back to my normal life. But my normal life, like I said, is not that different than the alkaline cleanse.”