{"id":287716,"date":"2020-02-05T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1119718"},"modified":"2020-02-05T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T17:16:00","slug":"kelly-ripa-thought-mark-consuelos-was-mugging-her-but-theres-a-sweet-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kelly-ripa-thought-mark-consuelos-was-mugging-her-but-theres-a-sweet-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Ripa Thought Mark Consuelos Was Mugging Her&#8211;but There&#8217;s a Sweet Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019517\/rs_600x600-190617165547-600-mark-kelly-trevor-project-me-61719.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.340468909276\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"26.943934760449\">\n<p>We definitely didn&#8217;t expect&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s story to unfold like this.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday morning, the&nbsp;<em>Live With Kelly and Ryan<\/em> co-host shared a unique story about running into her famous longtime husband,&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mark_consuelos\">Mark Consuelos<\/a><\/strong>. Except, at first, it seemed like a mugging was about to unfold.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Ripa explained, the&nbsp;<em>Riverdale<\/em> star had flown to the Big Apple to do work for a show and then was supposed to fly straight back to Vancouver, but instead, he finished early and had a couple hours to spare. Meanwhile, the TV personality was leaving the gym with her headphones in and in the process of picking a playlist when she suddenly heard someone speaking outside.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hear, &#8216;Hey sexy,&#8217; and it&#8217;s so funny\u2014it never occurs to me that this person is talking to me,&#8221; she explained to co-host&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ryan_seacrest\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a><\/strong>. &#8220;It sounds too close and I was like, &#8216;I&#8217;m about to be mugged by somebody flirting with somebody who doesn&#8217;t even have the thoughtfulness to pay attention to me while they&#8217;re mugging me.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17\">\n<p>While she didn&#8217;t have her glasses on, Ripa could make out that the man talking was actually her husband and not a thief. Fortunately, the story gets sweeter from here.<\/p>\n<p>When she asked what he was doing there, flowers in hand, Consuelos told her that he had figured out it was the day they met 26 years ago at a screen test for&nbsp;<em>All My Children<\/em>. The two co-stars eloped in 1996 and have welcomed three children\u201418-year-old daughter <strong>Lola<\/strong>, 22-year-old son&nbsp;<strong>Michael<\/strong> and 16-year-old son&nbsp;<strong>Joaquin<\/strong>\u2014since.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He brought me five roses,&#8221; she noted of her husband. &#8220;I&#8217;m really not sure the significance of the five roses. I didn&#8217;t want to split hairs. I thought it was very sweet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"34\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m. and don&#8217;t miss our <i>2020 Oscars: E&#8217;s Inside Guide<\/i> special Thursday, Feb. 6 at 10:30 p.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1119718\/kelly-ripa-thought-mark-consuelos-was-mugging-her-but-there-s-a-sweet-twist?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We definitely didn&#8217;t expect&nbsp;Kelly Ripa&#8216;s story to unfold like this.&nbsp; On Wednesday morning, the&nbsp;Live With Kelly and Ryan co-host shared a unique story about running into her famous longtime husband,&nbsp;Mark Consuelos. Except, at first, it seemed like a mugging was about to unfold.&nbsp; As Ripa explained, the&nbsp;Riverdale star had flown to the Big Apple to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 09:42:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}