For more than 22 years, Kelly Ripa has had a few “TV husbands” — but today, her real-life husband, Mark Consuelos, becomes her official co-host on “Live.” Ripa and Con…
Ripa and Consuelos have been married for nearly 27 years, and have worked together for their entire relationship. But they never planned for it to be that way.
“The concept of the show was always a faux husband and wife, right? I have described it where it’s these two people, they’ve woken up and now they’re having coffee, and then their friends are coming over who happen to be celebrities, and we’re all having a good time,” says the show’s longtime executive producer, Michael Gelman. “Now, it’s just graduated to a new level of reality, which is a real husband and wife.
Ripa says that when transition conversations began to happen with Ryan Seacrest’s departure, no other names came into the conversation aside from her husband. “They seemed pretty set on Mark,” Ripa says. Ripa says, “I keep saying to myself that it’s one of the great, weirdest social experiments that the audience can experience with us.”
Being an actor, Consuelos is used to having multiple takes to get the shot. He admits that every time he guest hosts on “Live,” he forgets that the show is“She reassures me just be in the moment. Just have fun,” Consuelous says. “It’s going to be great — that’s kind of the mantra that we both have when we do the show together.”
The couple isn’t sure if anything will be off limits for their morning coffee chat. “I think we’ll find out what’s off limits, probably in real time, which can be very compelling or disastrous,” Ripa says with a laugh.
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