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Les Cours Mont-Royal, (514) 842-7777, www.lcmr.ca"I'm a pop-culture junkie," she says from her office inside ABC's Manhattan headquarters, where Live is produced. "I never get tired of it. There's always something they haven't revealed, something that you've never heard anywhere else. I really find it fascinating."

Then again, not everything the famous and rich say and do is fascinating. And, to be sure, some things are simply better left unrevealed. To wit, do you really want to know that Britney Spears had a number-three value meal with a Coke at McDonald's last night? Probably not. But many of us - or at least I - still manage to obtain this type of knowledge on a daily basis.

It would be wrong to blame Ripa for that. She's certainly never grabbed a camera and followed a pop star to a fast-food restaurant. (I have not verified this fact, per se, though surely it is true.) But Ripa, 37, does regularly open her own life to the other pop-culture junkies in the world, right down to discussing what she had for dinner last night. Each weekday morning on Live, she and Philbin, 76, engage in 20 minutes of remarkably unscripted banter that touches on everything from their noshing habits to the day's news (well, celebrity news, anyway) to where babies come from - specifically, where Ripa's babies come from, in at least one case.