Kelly Ripa’s Bold Message to Husband Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa told her husband and TV co-host Mark Consuelos that she would have no interest in dating again if they ever got divorced.

The showbiz power couple, who are both 54, eloped in 1996 while they were acting together on the hit soap opera All My Children.

Their careers intertwined again two years ago when he joined her at her longtime daytime perch, compering what is now Live! with Kelly and Mark.

Now Kelly – who shares three children with Mark called Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22 – has shared how she would react if they split.

‘Let’s just say you were to leave me. I can say with 100% certainty that dating is out of the question,’ she said on Tuesday’s episode of their show, via People.

‘I’ve had three kids, there’s too much to explain,’ she joked – before dropping a bombshell on what her post-divorce sex life would look like. 

Kelly Ripa told her husband and daytime TV co-host Mark Consuelos that she would have no interest in dating again if they divorced

‘I’m not ever getting naked again – and I resent having to get naked in front of you sometimes,’ Kelly joked to her laughing husband.

‘I’m like: “No, no, no. Light out. You can wait until dark. Also, turn off that light, and also turn off your cell phone light. I want it pitch-black in here. And no unexpected touching!”‘ the New Jersey-born blonde candidly confessed.

A couple of months ago, Mark revealed that he would react somewhat different to Kelly in the event that their marriage ever fell apart.

Kelly observed that he would ‘absolutely fall apart, completely’ if they divorced, and while he said: ‘That’s true,’ he slyly added: ‘But I do feel like someone would be there on the other end just to pick me up and make sure I’m okay. I’d have to get used to their college schedule and all that stuff.’

Taking the teasing in stride, Kelly laughed and retorted: ‘Oh my God. Oh, dear God, I hope I live to see your second wife!’ 

Mark once revealed that he and Kelly briefly broke up just before their marriage, in an interview he gave Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live.

During the split, they ‘had to meet’ to promote All My Children on Live With Regis And Kathie Lee – the show Kelly would eventually co-host with Regis Philbin.

‘We were pushing like furniture on for a Queen For A Day, for the Mother’s Day special, seriously, and we were together,’ said Mark.

‘I’m not ever getting naked again – and I resent having to get naked in front of you sometimes,’ Kelly joked to her laughing husband 

Kelly and Mark eloped in 1966 and share three children called Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22, whom they are pictured with over Christmas in 2022

Kelly and Mark were first introduced when he auditioned for the show in 1994; they are pictured on a 1997 episode of the series 

‘She wouldn’t talk to me and that made me go crazy,’ he remembered, confessing that he ‘followed her into – in Central Park, I stalked her, and then I – we went back to my place and then we got married the next day.’

Kelly and Mark were first introduced in 1994 when he auditioned for All My Children, which already featured her in its principal cast.  

All My Children launched both of Kelly and Mark’s careers, as well as bringing them together personally and setting the stage for their marriage.

They eloped in Las Vegas on May Day 1966 but did not tell even their colleagues about their romance until three months after the wedding. 

Kelly has explained that they were so secretive ‘because we worked together and we didn’t want it to be perceived that somehow we couldn’t work together.’

Their coworkers and fans only found out they were an item when Wendy Williams – who was then a radio shock jock – broke the news of their wedding on the air. 

Over the decades, their work took them in separate directions, as she became one of the biggest morning hosts in America and he acted on such series as Riverdale.