Kelly Ripa hopes she will meet Mark Consuelos’ second wife

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos might be one of Hollywood’s most solid couples, but that doesn’t mean they won’t joke about a hypothetical breakup on live TV. 

On the May 29 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the longtime duo found themselves contemplating life apart after Ripa brought up a study claiming men “place more importance on romance” than women and “struggle more with the emotional toll of a breakup.”

It resonated with both Ripa and Consuelos. “I know if you and I broke up, you would absolutely fall apart, completely,” Ripa told her husband of almost 30 years, who agreed, saying, “That’s true.”

While Consuelos did not deny that he would be a wreck, he did have a glimmer of hope he would find someone, “But I do feel like someone would be there on the other end just to pick me up and make sure I’m okay. Pretty sure” he said, quipping that they might be much younger. “I’d have to get used to their college schedule and all that stuff,” he teased. Ripa’s response? “Oh my God. Oh, dear God, I hope I live to see your second wife!” she said, laughing.

Some couples could never joke about something like that, but that’s the reason why fans love watching Ripa and Consuelos on TV. They have always been incredibly candid. The couple even opened up about their home life, recently quipping that their life at home without children is a “total freak show.” The couple shares Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22, who have all left the nest. 

The two met on the set of All My Children in 1995, a show Ripa still credits with shaping her entire life. “I don’t say that lightly,” she once said. “I met my husband on All My Children. I had my children on All My Children.”

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They eloped in Las Vegas just one year later, in a $179 wedding that included airfare. “It was really romantic, though. It was very sweet,” Ripa said earlier this year. “We cherish those memories, still to this day… It was like two minutes!”

Almost 30 years, two kids, and a morning talk show later, they’re still laughing. Even if that laughter occasionally includes references to college-aged rebound girlfriends.