Remove tag a using php and leave only td text

I am using PHPMailer to send emails, but in the body of the email has a field (address) that is coming as a link (to the maps) to the recipient.

I've already used strip_tags () but it did not work. Locally it works, but when testo online does not work.

Code:

 $end = $_POST['endereco'];
 $enderecoFormatado= strip_tags($end, '<a>');

 $corpo = "<h1><table>       
    <tr>
      <td>Endereco: </td>
      <td>
        $enderecoFormatado
      </td>
    </tr>        
  </table>";


 $corpo = utf8_decode($corpo);
 $mail->msgHTML($corpo);