Jerry O’Connell compares watching ‘Live’ to stalking an ex’s Facebook

Jerry O’Connell is moving on after losing the yearlong “Live” hosting competition to Ryan Seacrest.

Joking with KTLA 5 on Thursday, he said, “I just left my house. I’ve been crying the entire time.”

“I knew. I did know,” he said of Seacrest’s hiring before it went public. “It is a little scary because you know some secret information that stockholders and people of power have made, but [Seacrest is] great. He’s an old friend of all of ours … He’s great for that job.”

Over the past year, Ripa enlisted a slew of guest co-hosts — including  Anderson Cooper, Jussie Smollett, Christian Slater, O’Connell, Seacrest and a Pennsylvania teacher named Richard Curtis — after Michael Strahan abruptly departed the morning show in favor of a full-time position at “Good Morning America.”

Like any scorned man, O’Connell joked that he has been hate-watching “Live” since Seacrest joined on May 1. “Like a weird ex, I watch them every morning,” he confessed. “It’s like going to check your ex’s Facebook page, ‘Let’s see what they’re up to. I see you’re seeing someone else. Status: in a relationship.'”

Jokes aside, the “Sliders” actor wished Ripa and the show nothing but the best, saying, “I love it. I love her.”

O’Connell may have dodged a bullet. As Page Six previously reported, Ripa isn’t thrilled about ABC acquiring “American Idol” after announcing Seacrest was joining her show.

“She doesn’t want a repeat of the Michael Strahan situation. It’s like ABC is once again diluting the attention on ‘Live.’ She wants to make sure her show is Ryan’s first priority, not ‘Idol,’” a source told us.

An ABC spokesperson countered that “Everything is categorically not true.”