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Kelly Ripa rang in her 28th wedding anniversary with Mark Consuelos after he confessed to sharing a “passionate” kiss with another woman. See how the couple celebrated the relationship milestone.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are kissing goodbye to another great year together.
The Live With Kelly and Mark cohosts celebrated their 28th wedding anniversary on May 1, which also happened to be Couple’s Appreciation Day. Befitting of the occasion, Mark shared on their daytime talk show all the ways he appreciates Kelly, saying that one of their goals as a couple is to “continue what we’ve got going.”
“And by that I mean getting all the kids off the payroll,” quipped the Riverdale actor, who shares kids Michael, 26, Lola, 22, and Joaquin, 21, with Kelly. “We can taste it! We can taste the financial freedom. Not that we’re not grateful for the three beautiful children that we love and adore.”
But jokes aside, Mark also had nothing but sweet words for his longtime love. As he wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of the pair on a tandem bike, “Forever thankful you decided to go on this crazy, beautiful ride with me.”
On her own page, Kelly shared photos of herself and Mark throughout the years. “Squeezing 28 years into 10 pics is not possible, but you get the idea,” she joked in the caption. “Happy anniversary to the love of my life @instasuelos. So grateful to you for all the dreams come true.”
Her posted include a pic of the couple, both 53, standing at the altar during their 1996 Las Vegas wedding, as well as one of Mark planting a steamy smooch on Kelly’s shoulder during a beach vacation.
In the sunny snap, the Hope & Faith actress was pictured closing her eyes while Mark kept his open, a habit Kelly pointed out when Mark recently confessed to kissing another woman.
Explaining how their Campobasso 1919 soccer team had just won the championship, Mark shared on the April 30 episode of Live With Kelly and Mark that he and another spectator at the game shared a “passionate” kiss through a plexiglass during the “adulation” of the victory celebration
I actually closed my eyes during the kiss,” he joked. “I closed my eyes, and my back foot went up.”
To which Kelly quipped, “You never close your eyes! That is incredible!”
For more eyebrow-raising confessions from the couple, keep reading.
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.”
Perhaps a DM Would Have Been Appropriate?
There’s a reason kids Michael Consuelos, Lola Consuelos and Joaquin Consuelos are forced to tread lightly whenever they take an innocent scroll through social media.
Consider the time Mark revealed he’d be “taking over” the Instagram feed for his series Riverdale during a 2019 episode, prompting Kelly to comment, “Oooooooooooo. Daddy, I love when you take over.”
It’s just one of the reasons why the morning show fixture is pretty confident her children have done their best to erase any sign of them from social media. “I’m certain they have blocked any channel with any mention of our names,” Kelly told E! News in April 2023. “Just like they block us on social media. They block us any way they can.”
Pants on Fire
Is that your gun or…? When Kelly posted a series of Halloween throwbacks in 2020—including Mark and pal Bruce Bozzi in full CHiPs regalia—her husband had a little something to say about the tight fit of his trousers.
“Full disclosure, I believe that’s definitely a shadow that’s causing that bulging effect,” he commented, causing his bride to reply, “ummmmm baby are you seeing shadows?”
And when Kelly appeared on E!’s Daily Pop days later, she wasn’t afraid to address what her man was packing. After host Justin Sylvester noted that was why they’d been married so long, she responded, “It’s not the only reason. But I would say the top three.”
