The Top Of The Morning

“Are you something of a morning person, Ryan?”

Ryan Seacrest has been in talks for a role on NBC’s “Today” show. But on Friday he had to appear on NBC’s arch rival, ABC’s “Good Morning America,” to promote that network’s “New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.” And “GMA” couldn’t let him go without asking him, indirectly, about “Today.”

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“Look, you’ve conquered it all,” said Josh Elliott, the interviewer, as the “GMA” segment wrapped up.

Then, mischievously, he paused.

“Uh, there are reports…”

Then Elliott took a different tack.

“Are you something of a morning person, Ryan?”

The camera’s on Seacrest now.

“Ah, yes,” he says.

He looks off camera.

“I am a morning person.”

Seacrest looks back at Elliott with a sly smile.

“I do a morning radio show every morning — 102.7 KISS FM Los Angeles — would you like to be on?

Both men suppress a laugh.

“Very deft,” Elliott says, before saying that yes, indeed, he would like to be on the radio show.