{"id":290616,"date":"2020-04-08T09:37:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:37:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1138646"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:37:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T15:37:53","slug":"kelly-ripa-tearfully-explains-why-her-kids-wont-hug-her-amid-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kelly-ripa-tearfully-explains-why-her-kids-wont-hug-her-amid-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelly Ripa Tearfully Explains Why Her Kids &#8220;Won&#8217;t Hug&#8221; Her Amid Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/202038\/rs_600x600-200408082208-600-kelly-ripa-emd-040820.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.46875\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"33.503289473684\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kelly_ripa\">Kelly Ripa<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;got a little choked up during&nbsp;Wednesday&#8217;s episode of <em>Live With Kelly and Ryan<\/em>. The tearful moment came after she started&nbsp;talking about how she missed hugging her parents and how her kids &#8220;won&#8217;t hug&#8221; her amid the global coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Ripa and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/ryan_seacrest\">Ryan Seacrest<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;had been talking&nbsp;about the return of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1138175\/watch-jimmy-kimmel-play-who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-with-his-kids\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Who Wants to Be a Millionaire<\/em><\/a> and how families can watch it together while social distancing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look, I&#8217;m not going to lie, OK? I&#8217;m going to let you in on a little secret: I&#8217;m currently not speaking to two of my three kids right now, OK? I&#8217;m not talking to two of them because\u2026just because, we&#8217;re all in the same boat together, right? Like, I haven&#8217;t gotten to hug my parents\u2026.I want to hug my parents. I miss hugging my parents,&#8221; she said while starting to tear up. &#8220;And my kids, like, won&#8217;t hug me. And I&#8217;m like, &#8216;Guys we&#8217;ve all been in lockdown together. We&#8217;re fine. You can give me a hug. It&#8217;s fine.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The 49-year-old celebrity then apologized.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m sorry. I don&#8217;t know why I&#8217;m crying,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Maybe I&#8217;m just going to get my period, who knows? Sorry \u2026Sorry, did I shout that? Did my inner monologue come out? Sorry, I didn&#8217;t mean to do that.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seacrest then sent her a virtual hug.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"63.852459016393\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"19.646910466583\">\n<p>Earlier in the episode, the co-hosts also talked about how the New York State Education Department announced the cancelation of the June 2020 Regents Exams due to the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s so funny because my youngest, <strong>Joaquin<\/strong> [<strong>Consuelos<\/strong> (17)], is so\u2014he&#8217;s so different than my other two kids [<strong>Michael Consuelos<\/strong> (22) and <strong>Lola Consuelos<\/strong> (18)], who would have been dancing, just dancing around the house. They would have been so excited,&#8221; she said. &#8220;But he has this level of anxiety from it. He felt so prepared for his exams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She the said her youngest son with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/mark_consuelos\">Mark Consuelos<\/a><\/strong> is &#8220;not relieved&#8221; about the cancelation and that &#8220;this whole thing&#8221; is &#8220;playing into every sense of anxiety that he has in his life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s the uncertainty of everything that&#8217;s making him very anxious,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"43.574879227053\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"27.729468599034\">\n<p>However, he&#8217;s not the only family member on her mind.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel so bad for my son Michael, who was supposed to graduate in a couple of weeks,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And I really feel bad for my dad who delayed having knee surgery that he can&#8217;t obviously have now for so many myriad reasons. He was so looking forward to, you know, watching his grandson graduate from college. It was such a big talking point in our house. Not only is, it was at Yankee Stadium but then his film school, they have a separate graduation, and that was supposed to be at Radio City. So, two such iconic establishments that you know we&#8217;re not going to get to experience. And again, these are small problems considering that so many people are losing their loved ones and [are] very, very sick. But it just, it is what it is, you know I mean. Michael, by the way, is not bothered at all.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seacrest then suggested they &#8220;conduct a mini-ceremony for him here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The stars conducted the interview from their homes. To read about other celebrities working from home, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/30582\/celebrities-working-from-home-during-coronavirus\/1007385\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1138646\/kelly-ripa-tearfully-explains-why-her-kids-won-t-hug-her-amid-social-distancing?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>Kelly Ripa&nbsp;got a little choked up during&nbsp;Wednesday&#8217;s episode of Live With Kelly and Ryan. The tearful moment came after she started&nbsp;talking about how she missed hugging her parents and how her kids &#8220;won&#8217;t hug&#8221; her amid the global coronavirus pandemic. Ripa and Ryan Seacrest&nbsp;had been talking&nbsp;about the return of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire [&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-290616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-23 17:05:07","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\/290616","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=290616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}