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Why Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos haven't filmed their morning show together in almost two weeks
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have raised eyebrows after separately missing multiple days of filming on their LIVE with Kelly and Mark morning show.
The husband-and-wife duo rarely miss an episode together, but Kelly, 54, has been noticeably out all week.
It comes just days after Mark, also 54, missed multiple shows last week.
The absences have left the couple to film with celebrity co-hosts instead of with each other, along with causing concern among longtime viewers of the show.
Making things even stranger is that both Kelly and Mark were recently making the promotional rounds together for their ESPN docuseries, Running with the Wolves.
Thankfully, there's an innocent explanation for why the couple are spending some time apart.
Kelly is currently on her summer vacation, leaving husband Mark to film with the likes of Jenna Dewan and Jackie Tohn.
It comes after Kelly was left to the front the series without Mark last week.
She confirmed on a July 29 episode that Mark was busy 'working on a show out in LA', which is why he couldn't be at ABC's New York studios where LIVE with Kelly and Mark is filmed.
She was joined by several celebrity fill-in hosts while he was gone, including actor Jerry O'Connell and ABC anchor David Muir.
Kelly has been a permanent co-host on the long-running morning show since 2001, while husband Mark joined her in 2023.
The couple's temporary on-air break comes shortly after Kelly revealed what annoys her the most about Mark.
Kelly got candid about her near–three–decade marriage during a recent appearance on the Not Skinny but Not Fat podcast.
'He doesn't listen to me frequently, and he will tune me out while we're live on the air,' she confessed.
'When you are being paid, highly paid by the way, to literally listen to me, then you have to listen,' she continued. 'I watch him drift away and I'm like, "Hey, hey, don't do that!"'
Kelly's brutal honesty comes as she also admitted she is repulsed by his timing in the bedroom.
'I find it disgusting,' she said, explaining that Mark, also 54, prefers to have sex 'only in the morning.'
But that's not all — she said he's also eager to kiss her first thing in the morning, which she finds anything but sexy.
'I have a retainer in. I gotta rip that out,' she said. 'And he's got his nasal strips on. It's like we are the most repulsive, disgusting [people].'
She didn't stop there, adding with a laugh: 'I'm already pre–disgusted for tomorrow morning.'
The longtime couple met on the set of All My Children back in 1995 and tied the knot the following year.
They've since welcomed three children together: Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22.
