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Kelly Ripa paused Live to fish a microphone out of her blouse.
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“Can I find it?” Mark Consuelos flirtatiously asked as he reached over to touch his wife’s torso.
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Ripa joked that the microphone had fallen “deep into the cleavage” on the air.
Despite a relatively quiet lull in spicy antics from morning TV’s sassiest couple, Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa engaged in a bit of light torso touching on the latest episode of Live With Kelly & Mark.
During Tuesday morning’s opening host chat, Ripa and Consuelos discussed ABC/Disney’s recognition of staffers at the company who’ve dedicated years of service to the organization.
Amid the discussion, a few audio hiccups sounded, before Consuelos grabbed at his chest and looked over toward his wife.
“Your mic fell,” Consuelos told Ripa, who asked, “Oh, my mic fell?”
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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos attend ESPN’s ‘Running With The Wolves’ series premiere
As Ripa examined her chest, Consuelos excitedly and flirtatiously asked, “Can I find it?” before flashing a smile to the audience.
The crowd laughed as he reached over and rubbed his wife’s torso while she fished around in her blouse to find the piece of equipment.
“Wait, hang on a second, you know, let me just reach down deep into the cleavage,” Ripa said. “Here it is!”
Consuelos and Ripa regularly flirt with each other on air, including in a 2023 segment that saw the couple trade foot massages during the show.
Later, in November 2024, Ripa showed off a nearly nude photo of her husband on her phone, which served as an outtake from his scantily clad modeling shoot for Stuart Weitzman shoes.
The couple have been married for nearly 30 years, after first tying the knot in Las Vegas in 1996 after they met as actors through their work on the soap opera All My Children.
Consuelos recently revealed that he and Ripa once broke up one week before getting married.
“I broke up with her, because I was dumb, and it was the most agonizing week of my life, and I just knew that I never wanted to feel like that. I’ve never felt like that in my life,” he told The Skinny Confidential podcast, adding that their eventual reunion led to his proposal, and they were married a matter of days later.
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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos in New York City
The couple, who have three children together, eventually returned to the Las Vegas chapel where they were married in a 2024 episode of Live.
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“Some of those feelings came back as I drove up. I started getting sweaty,” Consuelos said on the episode. “We were 25-year-olds. Our son is 26. It doesn’t make any sense. In a city where people roll the dice every day here, this is one of the safest bets I’ve made.”
Live With Kelly and Mark airs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings for showtimes in your area.
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