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Kelly Ripa will return to work at ABC to host “Live” on Tuesday, sources confirmed to Page Six.

TV insiders said she agreed to come back after her bosses at Disney/ABC assured her reps that “Live” would not be axed — and despite the Strahan debacle — she is important to the network.

The move comes after days of the furious petite star refusing to answer the phone to her bosses over being kept in the dark about her co-anchor Strahan’s announcement he’s going to “GMA” full-time.

ABC chiefs are now deciding whether to allow Strahan to leave the show earlier than expected to avoid months of uncomfortable airtime of him and Ripa together. It had been planned that the former New York Giants star would join “GMA” full-time in September.

ABC insiders say Ripa has already proven she can carry the show on her own — she did so with guest co-hosts for a year after Regis Philbin left in 2011 — until Strahan joined full-time in 2012.

Ripa may ask to bring in one of her pals such as Andy Cohen or Anderson Cooper to step in as co-host as soon as possible.

As Page Six reported, Ripa and Strahan haven’t been getting on for some time, and ABC bosses fear Ripa might go rogue on live TV, or clash with Strahan over what she sees as a betrayal over his failure to tell her he was leaving.

Reps for ABC were not immediately available.