LI Student Hopes To Reunite With TV 'Mom' Kelly Ripa

SOUTHOLD, NY — North Fork viewers watching "Live with Kelly and Ryan" on ABC Friday were surprised to hear the name of one of their own mentioned on the air.

Host Kelly Ripa showed the audience a photo of herself when she starred as the character Hailey Vaughan Santos on "All My Children." In the photo, she's holding Lorenzo, her fictitious baby on the show.

What viewers may not have known is Lorenzo was played for a few months by a girl — Olivia Daddona, now 19, of Southold.

In recent months, Olivia sent the photo to Ripa in the hopes of recreating it. Olivia's mother, Randee, took the photo.

Olivia, who attends Suffolk County Community College and works as a nanny, said she was one of the infants who played Ripa's baby on "All My Children" for 15 episodes beginning when she was 6 weeks old. She even had her own dressing room.

Initially, the casting call was for a baby boy and the thought was Olivia's twin brother Michael would get the part. "But my brother had no hair then so they decided to use me," Olivia laughed. "I just played a little baby boy."

The show held a contest asking viewers to name Ripa's baby and Lorenzo won.

For the past five years, Olivia has wanted to connect with Ripa and has been messaging her on Instagram and tagging her with the hopes she saw the photo.

On Friday, that dream came true. Ripa held up the photo on air on "Live With Kelly and Ryan" and said her friends from "Comments By Celebs" sent Olivia's message to her.

Ripa read Olivia's message: "'I was a baby on 'All My Children' ... I played baby Enzo, for 15 episodes.'"

Ripa smiled: "Look how happy she was to play my son! There were a couple of Enzos.

"I would love to figure out where Olivia is."

"She's not here right now," Ryan Seacrest said.

"I would love to see where she is in life," Ripa said. "She has to be a grown-up now."

Olivia said she was at work at her nanny job when her father Lenny called and said he got a voicemail from his cousin, saying, "I just heard Olivia's name on 'Live With Kelly and Ryan.'"

She was "freaking out," Olivia said. "I was screaming! The kids said, 'What's going on?' And I told them, 'Guys, this is my moment!'"

After spending hours trying to track down the segment, someone sent her the video.

"Kelly Ripa was saying, 'I wonder where she is right now,'" Olivia said. "Kelly, I'm right here!"

Olivia said the story of her stint as baby Enzo has become a legend in their family.

"It's hysterical," she said. "If my mom call me Olivia, I say, 'Wait a minute. It's not Olivia. It's Enzo.' People think it's hilarious."

Olivia said Ripa even pronounced her last name properly, something not everyone does. "This is meant to be," she said. "It has to happen."

Her acting career never went beyond childhood, save a TV movie she was featured in at 7 that never made it to the screen, Olivia said she is more interested now in behind-the-scenes work and studying broadcast journalism.

But she would love to see her on-screen mom again. "I told the woman I work for, 'If I ever have bad behavior, it's because of my separation anxiety from my 'mom,' Kelly Ripa.' I need to be reunited with her right now!" she laughed.

As for Olivia's real mother Randee, she said the whole family was excited by Olivia's mention on television.

Randee shared her own memories of the "All My Children" days. "Kelly had her daughter Lola on the set. I would hold Lola and Kelly would hold Olivia as we chatted. And it was especially great when the actor Josh Duhamel (who played the character Leo Dupree on the daytime drama) asked if it was okay for him to hold Olivia."

Randee said she wouldn't be surprised if her daughter gets to meet her on-air mother again.

"It gave us all a laugh after finding out that Olivia was mentioned on the show," Randee said. "We look forward seeing Olivia on the show, as we know it will probably happen. Especially for those who know Olivia — it will definitely happen."

Media representatives for Disney ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution, which produces "Live with Kelly and Ryan," did not immediately return a request for comment.