How Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Really feel Having an “Empty Nest”
Nobody can come between Kelly Ripa and her thirst entice pics of husband Mark Consuelos.
Together with their weirded-out daughter.
“That is disgusting,” Lola Consuelos, now 21, chided her mother throughout a 2020 interview with People. “I block that out of my thoughts. I forgot that you just even did that. I do not even know if I observe you on Instagram nonetheless! I am kidding, I might by no means.”
Which could also be for the most effective, as a result of her mother and father’ decades-long relationship solely appears to grow stronger—and hotter—with time. Particularly as Mark joins the long-running morning present host for what she joked was “the contractual obligation part of our relationship.” The actor is about to take his place alongside her on the desk of the newly rebranded Live with Kelly and Mark now that Ryan Seacrest is making his exit after six profitable seasons.
Even son Michael Consuelos, 25, has to confess there is a technique to their insanity.
“A hundred percent they’re relationship targets, and it is bizarre as a result of I have been with them the longest,” Michael, who performed a youthful model of his dad’s character on Riverdale in 2021, told Entertainment Tonight in August. “Not a yr after they have been married, a few yr, then I got here into the image. So we type of grew up collectively, at the very least that is how I see it.”
Subsequent he’ll be taking credit score for the way nicely they turned out, however Kelly and Mark have been solely about the age their eldest son is now once they met and just knew.
“Completely satisfied birthday to the sunshine of our lives @instasuelos,” Kelly, 52, wrote in honor of Mark’s fiftieth in 2021, after getting followers psyched for the milestone with a series of shirtless pics of her husband. “I’ve cherished you for greater than half of your life, listed below are the years earlier than we met. I used to be searching for you.” And on her birthday Oct. 2, Mark devoted a publish to “my greatest buddy, lover, confidant. My dance companion in life…My without end woman.”
They formally turned empty-nesters in 2021 when son Joaquin, 19, began school on the College of Michigan—”We have finished it earlier than however the different two, they stayed in New York so we knew they have been there,” his mother shared on Reside With Kelly and Ryan after they obtained him settled—however regardless that there is not fairly as a lot all-five-together time for the household today, they benefit from it once they have it.
And fortunately, they take photos.
In honor of soon-to-be cohosts massive information, try these candy Consuelos household moments: