Kelly Ripa has unintentionally ran into not one but two of Mark Consuelos’ ex-girlfriends.
On a Tuesday, March 11 episode of Live! With Kelly and Mark, Ripa, 54, shared that she met one of Consuelo’s exes at a very unexpected place: a drive-thru.
“When you roll up to the drive-thru in Florida and the woman handing you your lunch says, ‘I used to date your husband,’ you don’t need to know anything else,” Ripa joked before Consuelos, 53, quipped, “Tampa’s a very loving city!”
Although Ripa didn’t share any more details about the encounter, she noted that she ran into another one of Consuelos’ past girlfriends while in Wildwood, New Jersey, for their son Joaquin’s wrestling match. (Ripa and Consuelos share Joaquin, 22, along with son Michael, 27, and Lola, 23.)
“[Mark’s] like, ‘Oh, we’re in your neck of the woods. I wonder how many of your ex-boyfriends are going to be there? I wonder how many of your ex-boyfriends were going to meet? I wonder how many of your ex-boyfriends we’re going to interact with,’” Ripa, who is from Stratford, New Jersey, explained. “And I’m like, ‘Probably zero.’ And he’s like, ‘OK, we’ll see, we’ll see.’”
Ripa went on to say that the whole way there Consuelos kept talking to Joaquin about the possibility of seeing one of her exes.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. Kevin Mazur/Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
“And he’s like talking to Joaquin, ‘All your mom’s ex-boyfriends are going to be there and you’re going to have to beat their kids up!’” she added.
However, within “three seconds” of walking into the wrestling tournament, Consuelos spotted one of his ex-girlfriends from Florida.
“Her sons were good wrestlers, too! They are, they’re great,” Consuelos joked.
Ripa and Consuelos tied the knot in 1996 and have been inseparable ever since. The couple even started working together after Consuelos joined Live in April 2023.
“This show today truly felt like home. I always feel at home with Kelly, but [working] together this morning just felt so right,” Consuelos told Us Weekly after filming their first episode. “Kelly and I have always [felt] the most [at] ease when we’re together, and I feel so lucky we get to do that daily. I can’t wait to see where we can go from here.”
Ripa, for her part, was equally as excited to be working with her husband and shared that she was “so proud of him.”
“The thing I love about Mark is how funny he is,” she gushed at the time. “The advice I gave him was to just keep being yourself, enjoy every moment and be present. He took it from there.”
