Michael Strahan Receives Live! With Kelly Gig While In Jamaica

The former NFL star was actually chillin in the Caribbean with his smokin' hot fianc�e, Nicole Murphy, when he got the phone call of the decade ... that he was chosen to join Kelly Ripa as her new co-host.

Sources tell us, Strahan was through the roof excited when he found out the stellar news and it made his Jamaican get-away that much better.