Lola Consuelos reveals the origin story of her relationship with Cassius Kidston

Miami Herald

26-06-2025

Kelly Ripa is welcoming her daughter's boyfriend with open arms.
The 54-year-old talk show host was joined by her daughter, Lola Consuelos, whom she shares with husband Mark Consuelos, on the June 25 episode of her 'Let's Talk Off Camera' podcast.
And Ripa shared her honest opinion about her daughter's relationship with Cassius Kidston.
'I love him,' Ripa said of Kidston. 'I love his family, we are very close.'
Ripa then joked that she and Kidston's mother have 'a lot of conversations' about the young couple, to which her daughter replied: 'We have a lot of conversations about you two.'
The mother-daughter exchange comes two months after Lola Consuelos and Kidston celebrated an anniversary.
'Another year of pure magic,' Lola Consuelos wrote in the caption of a photo dump of her and her boyfriend. 'You're heavenly.'
Ripa shared her stamp of approval with two red heart emojis in the comment section, while Mark Consuelos commented, 'Congratulations,' with a string of party emojis.
On her mother's podcast, Lola Consuelos opened up about the origin of her relationship with Kidston.
'We met on vacation,' Lola Consuelos said before admitting, 'But we did not like each other when we first met each other.'
'I say this to everyone that I meet,' she added, per E! News. 'I think the reason we don't find ourselves truly arguing that much is because we kind of got it all out of our systems when we first met each other.'
Lola Consuelos went on to reveal that the pair grew up going on vacation to the same island with their families, but never met each other because they would vacation there at different times of the year.
She further clarified that Kidston was from Switzerland, not the United States.
It wasn't until the two were attending New York University that they were introduced through mutual friends. As they got to know each other, they learned about their shared past.
'It's so crazy because we have a lot of the same memories growing up at this place,' Lola Consuelos said on her mom's podcast, per People.
'We get very close to the locals, and they've known us both growing up individually and have watched us go from little kids to adults,' she continues.
'But probably would've never expected that Lola from New York, the little chunky cheek girl in her bikini, tanned and all would be dating this boy from Switzerland, pale and tall,' she added of the locals.
The couple's shared past is a big reason why Lola Consuelos believes in the 'invisible string theory.'
The theory proposes that everyone is connected to those they are meant to be with through an invisible, metaphorical string. It's a concept rooted in the belief of fate, destiny and pre-determination.
'We had just so many weird, intertwined things and people and all this stuff,' Lola said. 'Now we're almost dating for four years, which is insane.'
The 'Divine Timing' singer was then asked how big that invisible string is — and whether or not she sees a diamond ring at the end of it.
In response, Lola Consuelos alluded to the idea of being present vs. thinking about the future.
'Sometimes when you think about the future so much, it's because you feel that present moment with someone slipping away,' she explained.
'I think with my boyfriend and I we're so present with each other so of course, and we always say we would never date to break up,' she said before admitting, 'I 1,000 percent see future.'
But if there is a diamond ring at the end of the invisible string, Kelly Ripa doesn't want her daughter to do what she did.
During an April interview with People starring the mother-daughter duo, Ripa was opening up about eloping with her husband nearly three decades ago when the two got married in Las Vegas.
When Lola Consuelos joked about doing the same, Ripa said she and her husband 'would literally die.'
'We would track her down and un-elope her!' Ripa joked, to which her daughter confirmed as accurate.
In addition to Lola Consuelos, 24, Ripa and Mark Consuelos share two sons — Michael, 28, and Joaquin, 22.