Is working with her husband getting to her? LIVE host Kelly Ripa can’t get away from her husband. She works with him and then goes home with him. She pleaded for alone time from Mark Consuelos.
Kelly Ripa Can’t Escape Her Husband
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos spend a lot of time together. They first met as actors on the soap All My Children in 1995. Their characters were together, which meant spending a lot of time rehearsing lines and filming scenes. Their close quarters quickly led to love and marriage. The co-stars eloped in 1996 and have been together ever since.
Kelly Ripa joined Live with Regis as co-host in 2001 after Kathie Lee Gifford left. She stayed on the talk show after Regis left. The network brought in Michael Strahan and Ryan Seacrest as her co-hosts over the years. But after Ryan Seacrest left, ABC chose someone very familiar to the show and Kelly – her husband.
The show made a big move to a new studio ahead of the current season. The new studio is in Lower Manhattan, New York. Kelly Ripa and her husband live on the Upper East Side, which is quite a commute together every day.
LIVE Host Pleads For Alone Time From Mark Consuelos
Mark Consuelos became the official co-host in 2023 after guest-hosting many times over the years. Now Kelly Ripa spends mornings, afternoons, and nights with her husband. And it’s a lot.
On a recent episode of LIVE, Kelly Ripa brought up an article she read that said spending time alone is crucial to “de-stress,” among other benefits. She joked that it’s hard to find time alone from her husband because he interrupts her alone time constantly.
“Sometimes when I’m enjoying my alone time and you come in the room, I want to scream. You know what I mean? I feel like you’ve interrupted my alone time because you’re done with your alone time,” she told him on the daytime talk show.
“But I need 40 more minutes. It’s there if you read the schedule,” she added.
That was news to her husband. He pointed out that the schedule didn’t specifically say “Kelly alone time.”
See His Sweet Birthday Tribute
The banter was all in good fun. The couple is still going strong after almost thirty years of marriage. In fact, they’re stronger than ever. Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa are featured in an ESPN docuseries about their purchase and revitalizing an Italian soccer team.
Mark Consuelos gushed over his “sexy” wife in a beautiful birthday tribute. Kelly Ripa turned 55 on October 2. Her husband shared a video collage of photos spanning from her childhood until now. He set the video to Madonna’s song “Hung Up.”
“Happy birthday sexy!!! I love you,” he captioned the post. She jokingly asked in the comments who he paid to make the video.
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Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing & Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly ‘Days of Our Lives’, would come in handy someday. When she’s not writing, she’s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger
