Kelly Ripa Reveals the One Thing She Doesn’t Like About Working With Husband Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa revealed what her husband and Live cohost Mark Consuelos does on live TV that makes her say, “don’t do that.”

Mark Consuelos knows how to push Kelly Ripa’s buttons.

After working alongside her husband of nearly 30 years on Live with Kelly and Mark for the last two years, there’s one thing she can do without.

“He doesn’t listen to me frequently, and he will tune me out while we are live on the air,” Kelly, 54, revealed on the July 15 episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast. “And I’m like here’s the thing, I’m used to you tuning me out in life, but when you are being paid—highly paid by the way—to literally listen to me, then you have to listen to me.”

“Literally I watch him,” Kelly quipped of Mark. “I watch him drift away. And I’m like, ‘Hey don’t do that.’”

Mark—who shares kids Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22, with Kelly—joined Live officially in 2023, after Ryan Seacrest’s departure. And while the Riverdale alum is happy to have the job, Kelly admitted that he had a surprising reaction when asked to fill in permanently.

“It was really convincing Mark,” she explained. “Because initially when they came to Mark, he flat out refused.”

And as for Kelly—who costarred with Mark on All My Children for 12 years—she initially agreed with her husband.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos

“I also thought that was kind of a bad Idea,” she noted. “I was like a husband and a wife hosting a morning show is different than a husband and wife acting together or producing something together.”

Indeed, despite their initial hesitation, Mark’s addition to the show was ultimately well-received.

“The audience really responds to Mark because Mark has a gives zero fs attitude,” Kelly said. “And the audience loves that. There’s no artifice with him. If he hates something, he hates it out loud no matter how much we’re supposed to love it. And when he thinks something is dumb, he says it no matter how much we’re supposed to pretend to like whatever the thing is.”

“We have been together for 31 years and we are not afraid to express ourselves publicly, there is no artifice,” she continued. “We’re not worried about protecting each other’s feelings. We both just say what is on our minds and I guess people find that relatable.”

What works for the audience is working for Kelly too, as she noted, “I love working with him.”