Kelly Ripa was absent from LIVE With Kelly And Mark this morning leaving Mark Consuelos to carry on without her.
Mark, 52, was instead joined on the program by longtime LIVE announcer Déjà Vu who filled in for his wife just days after they celebrated Thanksgiving with Priyanka Chopra.
The Riverdale star explained that his 53-year-old wife was missing in action on the ABC morning chat show due to to losing her voice.
He explained: ‘Yesterday you could tell she was losing her voice a little bit – it’s gone, it’s lost.’
Déjà asked if the actress was feeling okay.
Kelly Ripa was absent from LIVE With Kelly And Mark this morning leaving Mark Consuelos to carry on without her
Mark, 52, was instead joined on the program by longtime LIVE announcer Déjà Vu who filled in for his wife
Mark responded: ‘Yeah, she’s gonna feel better, she’s just resting a little bit. I’m sure she’ll feel better soon.’
Later on in the program the hunky television personality did reveal that he ‘was quarantining’ away from his wife so he ‘didn’t get the laryngitis.’
Kelly was on the program the previous day as Jennifer Garner was one of the celebrity interviews.
The married couple began co-hosting LIVE permanently in April after longtime host Ryan Seacrest had left the show.
Kelly started out at Live With Regis & Kelly in 2001 after Kathy Lee Gifford left.
In March, she told Variety that she ‘had a really difficult time’ at the beginning and pushed for an office to have some privacy.
Despite seeing empty office spaces in the building, which she easily could have slipped into to make her calls, leave her purse and store her paperwork, Ripa was told no.
She added she was informed the empty office spaces were reserved for executives, who visited from Los Angeles.
The Riverdale star explained that his 53-year-old wife was missing in action on the ABC morning chat show due to to losing her voice
He explained: ‘Yesterday you could tell she was losing her voice a little bit – it’s gone, it’s lost’
Kelly was on the program the previous day as Jennifer Garner was one of the celebrity interviews
The married couple began co-hosting LIVE permanently in April
Then, four years later, in 2005, she was given a janitor’s closet they cleared out and moved a desk into.
It clearly was a way to keep her ego in check.
She thought she might finally get her own office when her costar Regis – who died in 2020 – retired from the show in 2011.
But that did not happen.
Instead of her inheriting Philbin’s spacious office, it was left empty.
‘They said, “Oh, no, we’re saving that.” And I said, “Saving it for what?”‘ she commented.
‘And they go, “Well, for when the new guy comes.” And I looked at them, and I said, “I am the new guy,”‘ she said.
Kelly did not get the go ahead to take the office. So instead she pushed her way into it.
Kelly started out at Live With Regis & Kelly in 2001 after Kathy Lee Gifford left (pictured in 2001)
Dream team: Meanwhile, Regis Philbin and Ripa worked together for more than ten years; seen in 2011
Past co-host: Ripa previously hosted the show with Ryan Seacrest, who exited the show in April
‘All of those offices that were not available to me were suddenly made available [to others], with walls knocked down to make them twice as big,’ she added.
‘It was fascinating for me to watch — the need to make the new guy comfortable and respected, but I couldn’t use those offices,’ she said.
‘I had to use the broom closet.’
And when she had to use the bathroom, she had to go out to the main one where the audience members were directed.
Mark and Kelly share three children together (pictured left to right) Lola, 22, Michael, 26, and Joaquin, 20
‘We have a studio audience — like 250 people! — and I have to queue up,’ she explained.
‘Particularly when I was pregnant, it was extraordinarily exhausting to have to wait in line.
‘I have to host the show, and I’m still waiting in line to use the bathroom,’ she said. ‘It just seemed, you know, a very needlessly difficult situation.’
