Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos Tease That Their “Four Second” Hug On ‘Live’ “Felt Too Long For Daytime”

C’mon, hug it out — or not? On this morning’s Live with Kelly and Mark, Kelly Ripa informed viewers of the recently enforced three-minute-long “limit on the time you can spend hugging your loved ones” at Dunedin Airport in New Zealand, which Mark Consuelos immediately deemed “too long.”

Ripa added, “You and I, as you pointed out, have been married for multiple decades, and I can’t imagine hugging you for three minutes. To me, that would seem extraordinary.”

Consuelos echoed, “That’s like… two and a half minutes too long. Thirty seconds is a long hug.”

After Ripa teased that “at thirty five seconds, [she] would feel oppressed in some way,” Consuelos raised the argument of when there are “multiple family members” present.

“Cause there’s always the re-hug,” he explained. “If you hug somebody too early in the goodbye, once you say goodbye again, you’re like, ‘Alright, c’mon.’ We’re going to go in for another hug, right?”

According to Ripa’s article, the airport’s CEO, Daniel De Bono, “weighed in saying 20 seconds is all you need to get that burst of oxytocin, the love hormone.”

I don’t need any love hormone before I get on a flight,” Ripa quipped. “I need to get out of there and I need to get somewhere. We can have our love hormone when I get back. That’s when I want the love hormone. I don’t need you to send me off feeling a certain way.”

The co-host couple proceeded to share a brief embrace, which Consuelos teased was a mere “four seconds” long.

“I don’t know how long that was, but it felt too long!” Ripa joked. “That felt too long for daytime.”