KELLY Ripa was joined by her husband Mark Consuelos on Thursday’s talk show. They showed some serious PDA.
The 51-year-old’s usual co-host, Ryan Seacrest, has begun a multi-day absence from their morning program, Live with Kelly and Ryan.
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After two weeks away from the show, Kelly returned on Monday with the first of the week’s pre-taped episodes.
While Ryan co-hosted with her through Wednesday’s episode, she brought on her real-life husband, Mark, to sub for her TV husband, Ryan, for Thursday’s episode.
He will be guest co-hosting Friday’s show, as well, amid the American Idol star’s absence.
Before previously-aired celebrity interviews were shown, Live offered fans a new-but-pretaped opening segment with Kelly and Mark at the hosts’ desk.
The couple, who have been married since 1996 and are now just a few minutes in to their marriage, show some major PDA.
As they were unable to hold their hands apart, one of them piled his hands on top of another.
Shortly after that, Mark rested a hand on his wife’s arm as she told a story.
Soon, Kelly returned the favor and put her hand on her husband’s arm, rubbing it sweetly as the two continued with their show-opening banter.
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Not for the first time on the show, the 51-year-old gushed over how lucky she was to have Mark as her husband, saying she’s surprised someone with “below average everything”I was able to do it.
Kelly boasted to Ryan on Tuesday about how Mark and she were able get married in Las Vegas at $179 each.
The couple, who met on 1995’s soap opera All My Children, were both based together in New York City.
Kelly said that Kelly was inspired to elope in Vegas by the fact that they both had two days off work.
“Two consecutive days off from work, both on the same day.And it was like, ‘Let’s go to Vegas and get married and it’ll be fun,'”She remembered.
Despite making a last-minute decision, the mother of three revealed that the ceremony was still very expensive.
Kelly said: “$179 for a wedding, including airfare, cause we had miles and we had a canceled trip or something. But $179 in total — total with everything.”
“We just had a very normal, very regular wedding,”Ryan was the co-host.
“It really is such an efficient way to get married. And it was fun. We were like, ‘Now, this is gambling! Woohoo!'”
This story was also pre-recorded for Live as are all other episodes this week.
Kelly and Ryan have been criticised by fans. “faking”They also discuss parts of the show.
The hosts spoke the following words for all episodes this week. “previously recorded”You can see faint writing at the bottom of your screen
This allowed fans to know that the show was not live but pre-taped.
Despite recording the segments on different days, hosts told viewers that the opening was Monday, August 15, Tuesday August 16 and so forth.
One viewer was upset: “Are all the shows pre-taped until September 6th, I just don’t understand how the description in the guide says it’s a new episode, asking for a friend??”
A second blasted: “They pre-tape the host chats and splice in old segments and then pass them off as new.
“Same with the two episodes this week with Mark [Consuelos] ‘co-hosting.’ They pull this bs every year.”
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