Mark Consuelos playfully told wife Kelly Ripa on Live With Kelly and Mark that, if the pair ended their 30-year marriage, he would date a college student.
Will Mark Consuelos be getting a newer, younger cohost?
Well, he doesn’t currently have plans to, but during a conversation with wife Kelly Ripa, the Live With Kelly and Mark star quipped that, should their nearly three-decade marriage end, he would be open to dating a college student.
As Kelly put it during the May 29 episode, “I know if you and I broke up you would absolutely fall apart, completely.”
And Mark didn’t disagree with his fellow All My Children alum, with whom he shares kids Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22.
“That’s true,” he responded. “But I do feel like someone would be there on the other end just to pick me up and make sure I’m okay.”
Mark then playfully added, “I’d have to get used to their college schedule and all that stuff.”
Noting that she and her husband often joke with each other about breaking up, Kelly reacted, “Oh, dear God, I hope I live to see your second wife!”
But while Kelly and Mark often have fun while discussing their marriage on Live With Kelly and Mark—including their new NSFW habit now that their kids have moved out—they recently took a more sentimental approach to discussing their relationship while reflecting on a moment that saved their marriage and, coincidentally, involved a former iteration of the morning show.
During a brief breakup in 1996, the former All My Children costars begrudgingly made an appearance on Live With Regis and Kathie Lee for work.
“We had to be here,” Mark told People in a joint interview published April 1. “We both tried to get out of it, but we both ended up being here on this stage.”
However, the work appearance proved pivotal, as Mark added, “Obviously, seeing her it was like, ‘This is the worst decision of my life. I have to be with her forever.’ And I asked her to marry me and we flew to Vegas the next day.”
Chiming in, Kelly added, “Isn’t that wild? So we owe a lot to this place.”
Read on for more of Kelly and Mark’s playful confessions and interactions, many of which were shared on Live With Kelly and Mark.
Bad Bedroom Behavior
So much for pillow talk. When husband Mark Consuelos joined Kelly Ripa for a February 2017 episode of Live! With Kelly (some six years before he claimed a permanent spot at the desk), she used the opportunity to issue a complaint.
“When there’s special married couple time in our house,” she explained, “he’s immediately mean to me afterwards and I don’t like that. I think it’s bizarre. He becomes short with me, like irritated.”
Though Kelly later insisted it was just a joke, her husband of two-plus decades felt the need to defend himself when he noticed her quip had become a trending news story. “I just wanted to set the record straight that no one can be mean after something if they are unconscious,” he declared on-air days later. “I sleep.”
Echoed his bride, “Maybe that’s what I meant. I didn’t really mean mean. I meant completely disinterested—like sound asleep.”
