Kelly Ripa says 'life becomes nudity' during empty nesting on 'Live with Kelly & Mark'
The mom of three offered some advice about kids leaving home to "Your Friends & Neighbors" star Amanda Peet on the May 26 episode of "Live with Kelly and Mark" alongside husband and co-host Mark Consuelos.
"Let me just say this," Ripa said. "The first one is like a bit of a shock. Each one, the second one, is like, no big deal. Third one, for 24 to 48 hours, you're going to be like, 'Oh my gosh, what have we done now? Now it's just us.'
"And then your entire life becomes nudity in the household wherever you want. Total freak show all the time," the daytime star added as Consuelos smiled wide and the audience laughed.
"Wow, good to know!" Peet said jokingly, telling the married "Live" co-hosts that she didn't "want to cry" about her eldest daughter moving "very far away" to the "opposite coast."
Ripa and Consuelos, who have been married since 1996, share Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22. The couple's youngest son graduated from the University of Michigan earlier this month.
'The White Lotus' star Aimee Lou Wood revealed she's 'very anti-Botox.' She's not alone.
Peet shares daughter Frances Benioff, 18, with her "Games of Thrones" creator husband David Benioff, and the pair have two younger children: Molly, 15, and Henry, 10.
Peet said that she sends Frances Benioff advice over text but told Ripa and Consuelos that "I get one reply for every 10 texts I send her." Ripa related with the sentiment, saying that she "sent my kids when they graduated, all of these articles on like 'The best things people look for when hiring,'" and she said, "Nobody reads anything."
Consuelos and Ripa said their kids have told them that "you were right" about "everything." During her own childhood, Peet said "it was a secret thing" that she "thought" her parents were cringeworthy.
This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Kelly Ripa talks 'nudity' during empty nesting on 'Live'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
USA Today
2 hours ago
- USA Today
Star Trek's 60th anniversary to be celebrated with waves of toys
For its 60th anniversary, the Star Trek franchise is going where it's never gone before – in terms of action figures. The groundbreaking original TV series debuted on NBC back on Sept. 8, 1966, spawning a fleet of subsequent movie and TV enterprises, including "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds," currently in its third season on Paramount+, and the in-production "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy," set to arrive on Paramount+ in 2026. With the space franchise's upcoming 60th anniversary looming, fans will likely engage in a massive celebration. Collectors already have plenty to get excited about. The first wave of figures, expected to be due later this year, includes characters never made available as action figures before, among them Capt. Jellico ("Star Trek: Prodigy"), Peter Preston from "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan," and Valkris, a female Klingon from "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock". The Nacelle Company, perhaps best known for TV specials such as "Kevin Hart's Guide to Black History" and "Down to Earth with Zac Efron" (both on Netflix), acquired the rights to market Star Trek playsets and accessories in 2024. The company has already announced that a host of action figures is in the works. Anniversary cruise: 'Star Trek' cruise will celebrate show's 60th birthday with William Shatner and more stars Those figures, which are one-twelfth size (roughly six or seven inches tall) can be pre-ordered now (priced individually at $28.99), will be followed by three additional waves: The arrival of a new line of Star Trek action figures "indicates how meaningful, and relevant, this series is, even 60 years later. And that makes me very proud," said Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry, son of the late Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry and CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, in a statement to USA TODAY. "The Original Series holds a special place in the history of Star Trek, in the history of science fiction, and in the history of television," Roddenberry said. "I am thrilled to see it being honored in conjunction with Star Trek's 60th." Roddenberry wasn't ready to share other aspects of the 60th anniversary just yet. "But rest assured it's Roddenberry's intention to provide Trek fans the opportunity to be part of the celebration and engage in the Trek community," added Roddenberry, who suggested Trekkies follow the brand on Facebook, Instagram, Threads and YouTube. 'Lifelong' Trekkie commands Star Trek toy-making mission Nacelle CEO and founder Brian Volk-Weiss comes by his interest in Star Trek toys honestly, as the owner of a collection of more than 5,000 toys. He chose the company's name based on a word for the housing of a starship's warp engines. "I'm a lifelong Star Trek toy collector and a lifelong fan," Volk-Weiss told USA TODAY. When meeting with Paramount to secure the licensing, Volk-Weiss said he told the studio he planned to cater to Trekkies who want action figures beyond the obvious characters, such as Kirk and Picard. "Where's Captain Garrett? Where's Captain Jellico? Where is Peter Preston?" he said. "That was my pitch. …. What I basically said was, 'I believe the base of the Star Trek community is strong enough to give them what they want – and Valkris is the greatest example – even if it's a character that was on screen for 81 seconds, 35 years ago.'" The company's plan for releasing action figures is to alternate waves of figures who commanded a starship bridge with waves of assorted characters. When Nacelle announced it would be releasing Star Trek toys, it included an email address in the news release encouraging fans to chime in on figures they would like to see. Decisions on which ones to produce were "absolutely 100% influenced by that," Volk-Weiss said. Nacelle has announced a total of four waves of action figures to "assure the community this is not going to be a two-wave line," Volk-Weiss said, adding that "we have to make everybody feel confident we're going to go the distance." The toys, which are made in China, would fall under President Trump's unsettled tariff policy. But Volk-Weiss said the company plans to "keep everything on schedule and keep the prices locked," with Nacelle's other divisions helping to manage any impact on the profit margins. "My goal is to make this the most successful Star Trek (toy) line ever or at least tie Playmates from their original '90s run," Volk-Weiss said. "So if I want to do that, I can't raise my prices and I can't slow anything down because keeping the trust of the community – this sounds cheesy, but it's true – if we lose (that), the line will fail." Star Trek action figures: Wave One Wave One is available for pre-order and is expected to ship out this fall. Available for $28.99 each; $225 for a bundle of all eight figures: Watch: Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Star Trek action figures: Wave Two Wave Two figures, announced in March 2025 at WonderCon in Anaheim, California, will be available for pre-order soon and released in 2026: Star Trek: The Original Series action figures in Wave Three Wave Three figures, which features the "Star Trek" original series cast in their duty uniforms and a 60th anniversary surprise two-pack of unannounced characters, was made public in July at the San Diego Comic-Con and will be available for pre-order soon and released in 2026: Star Trek action figures: Wave Four Wave Four figures, also announced in July at the San Diego Comic-Con, will be going on sale in mid-to-late 2026: Mike Snider is a national trending news reporter for USA TODAY. You can follow him on Threads, Bluesky, X and email him at mikegsnider & @ & @mikesnider & msnider@ What's everyone talking about? Sign up for our trending newsletter to get the latest news of the day
USA Today
2 hours ago
- USA Today
35 years of Microsoft Solitaire: An illustrated history of the game's evolution
Over 500 million people have played Microsoft Solitaire since its 1990 release as an included game in the Windows 3.0 operating system. In 2019, it was inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame, marking it as one of the most influential video games of all time. Since its inception, it's been localized into 65 languages and played on every continent, including Antarctica. Though it doesn't come pre-installed in Windows computers anymore, users continue to download and play it on computers, tablets and phones 35 years later. USA TODAY's Ariana Torrey recounts her experience as a millennial growing up playing Microsoft Solitaire and how she evolved alongside the game: I was six-years-old when we got our first Windows PC. Before Windows 95, games were things I played on my Super Nintendo, sometimes my Gameboy, rarely our family Macintosh. But after being given my very own Windows login with a neon-colored icon as my profile picture, it only took me four clicks to find the 'Games' folder hidden in the START menu of the Windows taskbar. The games that came preinstalled on Windows 95 were FreeCell, Hearts, Minesweeper and Solitaire. The pickings were slim, but for a girl in the '90s, it amounted to hours of entertainment, and later, an obsession with solitaire-based card games that spanned well into adulthood. The Windows 95 version of Solitaire wasn't like the one I had seen my Nana play, meticulously laying out cards one-by-one into neat stacks, moving each row gingerly by hand. This version sported bright pixel art decks that you could change at will, and a mesmerizing animation of the cards cascading down and bouncing whenever you won a game. Originally included in Windows 3.0 in 1990, developers hoped Solitaire would help beginner computer users get familiar with the functionality of a mouse – a relatively new tool for people at the time. The computer did indeed make shuffling, ordering and restacking cards as simple as a single click. It also recorded your win percentages diligently, making it perfect ammo to hurl at your brother during arguments about who got to play next on the computer. As I aged and we upgraded to Windows 98 and then 2000, the gaming landscape was shifting before me with the release of the PlayStation 2, which pushed graphic capabilities as we knew it to places we had only dreamed of before. But these tried-and-true Windows games remained largely untouched. Always preinstalled, they changed very little with the turn of the millennium. They were simple. Reliable. Comforting. It became second nature to click into Solitaire while waiting around for my mom to get off the landline phone so I could log onto AOL messenger, or when patiently watching jpegs load, lines by blurry line, on 56k dial up. Along with millions of other Americans, I played Solitaire in the moments I was procrastinating, reflecting, bored, overwhelmed or needing a break. It required no commitment. No CD-Roms. No beefy hardware. Just your idle mind. With the launch of Windows XP in 2001, a whole new set of Internet-connected games were built into the operating system. Now with the ability to face opponents online, they included Internet Backgammon, Internet Checkers, Internet Hearts, Internet Reversi and Internet Spades. My beloved solo games were still available too, along with a brand new Solitaire mode – Spider Solitaire. All of the Internet games disappeared with later versions of Windows, but Spider Solitaire remained. It became a new staple in the pre-installed Windows zeitgeist for more than a decade, included with the four original games in the releases of Windows Vista in 2006 and Windows 7 in 2009. This strong quintuple of games remained with me all throughout high school and college with every upgrade we made on our family PC, and later, on my college laptop. I still played regularly, getting more competitive in my pursuit of better streaks and win percentages. I wasn't competing with anyone besides myself, but that is what I liked about it. When Windows 10 released in 2015, I had already started my career, and the world had grown up along with me; We all had less idle time, more distractions, an entire internet full of content to consume at any given moment. Solitaire couldn't compete with the dopamine hits of doom-scrolling social media or binge-watching Breaking Bad for the third time. Plus, there were just so many games now. Hundreds. Thousands. Some so addicting people were spending real life money on virtual, sparkly gems for games they would abandon six months later. Microsoft knew this. They had launched an entire empire of gaming with the Xbox console, and their operating system followed suit. Instead of coming pre-installed, Solitaire was now offered as an app you had to download from the Windows Store on your phone or PC in a suite of games called 'The Solitaire Collection.' It included the classics – Solitaire, FreeCell and Spider Solitaire, along with two other Solitaire modes – Pyramid and TriPeaks. All could be played as one-off games, but now there were also challenges, which gave you daily medals, which counted towards monthly achievements. Dopamine galore for any goal-oriented gamer. I greedily snatched them up. This is how Solitaire mostly remained until Windows started including ads between draws, some of them un-mutable and unskippable, which made the collection of games nearly unplayable in my eyes. But by this point, there were plenty of other options available for the Solitaire-obsessed. Do a quick search on the Google Play Store and you'll find thousands of hits for Solitaire from a myriad of developers, some with full story modes, eye-catching art, or other game mechanics woven in. There are a slew of card-based indie games, like the 2024 smash hit Balatro, which credits Solitaire as its inspiration. And with mega-giants like Microsoft-owned Activision cashing in with their release of Candy Crush Solitaire earlier this year, it's no surprise that this simple game has evolved just like we all have. The world demanded it. But for me, I'm a purist. Nothing will ever replace the simple pleasure of organizing randomized stacks of cards into ordered piles, whether by number, suit, or alternating back and forth. Sometimes I long for the days when everything felt that simple – back when I was young and the world was smaller, still contained to my home and bus stop and school. Back when I would play just to play, even with no one around to compete against. Just me. And a deck of cards. CONTRIBUTING Carlie Procell
USA Today
3 hours ago
- USA Today
Puzzle solutions for Sunday, Aug. 17, 2025
Note: Most subscribers have some, but not all, of the puzzles that correspond to the following set of solutions for their local newspaper. CROSSWORDS USA TODAY crossword Play the USA TODAY Crossword Puzzle. Sunday Los Angeles Times crossword Sunday New York Times crossword Sunday Premier crossword SUDOKU Play the USA TODAY Sudoku Game. JUMBLE Answer: HUMANE BIGGER HOLLER ADJOIN UPHILL AGENDA He was just joking, but when he made a comment about his wife's weight, it was — NO LAUGHING 'MAD-HER' (Distributed by Tribune Content Agency) Cryptoquip STATE WHERE, BY LAW, PEOPLE MUST BE LIVING WITH AT LEAST ONE ANIMAL SUCH AS A DOG, CAT OR BIRD: PETSYLVANIA. (Distributed by King Features) OTHER PUZZLES Boggle PIN LANE SPARE SPLIT ALLEY SCORE STRIKE GUTTER (Distributed by Tribune Content Agency) Lexigo LINING, GOBLIN, NIECE, ELECTS, SIBLINGS (Distributed by Andrews McMeel) KenKen Scrabblegrams 7 Little Words (Distributed by Andrews McMeel) Find the Words Night at the pub (Distributed by Creators Syndicate) Kubok
