ON this date in 2001 - After Bun Man and Mr. Purple spent the last week holed up in a Paris Hotel w/ Catherine Zeta-Jones, it was announced that Kelly Ripa would be Regis Philbin's cohost.

The show was renamed to "Live! With Regis and Kelly."

Seems Kelly had the more wholesome image at the time, but Catherine had the bigger smile on her face for reasons decorum prohibits me from discussing in this forum.