Local Reporter Pitches Herself On 'Live!'

WAMU’s Markette Smith is a top five finalist in the competition to co-host Live! with Kelly Ripa and this morning she went on the program to make her case as to why she should win.

All five finalists were challenged to stand on the set with nothing other than a cardboard cutout of Ripa to talk to for a full minute. Markette, the lone female in the race, went third and, as she has done since entering the contest, she played up the fact that her birthday falls on the day she’d co-host the show.

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