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Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa made a surprise appearance to celebrate their daughter
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The daytime talk show hosts surprised their daughter Lola in London, during her debut singing performance
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Ripa and Consuelos first became parents in 1997, a year after tying the knot
Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa made a surprise appearance to celebrate their daughter.
The daytime talk show hosts surprised their daughter Lola, 24, in London, during her debut singing performance for her EP’s launch. On the Monday, Dec. 15 episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, the proud parents talked about how the moment came to be, sharing that they “pulled off a caper” by being there since their daughter told them not to attend.
“She was so nervous leading up to this thing. And we wanted to go, but we didn’t want to add any more pressure by us being there,” Consuelos, 54, told viewers, with Ripa, 55, adding, “She told us not to go, specifically.”
“Told us not to go, so we thought we would sneak into London and just kind of be on the side, somewhere in the crowd. And the first part of the caper is we went and bought hats,” he said, adding, “Like Peaky Blinders style.”
While preparing to show up incognito, the doting mom shared a funny story about how they tried on hats at a local shop and ended up “looking like two dudes”
“At a hat shop, to put ourselves in disguise, we looked like two dudes,” she said. “They were like, ‘Ma’am there are ladies hats!’ I was like, ‘I need a dude hat.’ “
Consuelos went on to share more details about the launch party. He noted that the venue was small, fitting only about 150 people inside.
“To enter the venue you had to go right by the stage, so we couldn’t enter. So we had to stay around the corner and Kelly was filming it like this,” he said, demonstrating how she was recording. “And I was crouched down underneath her arm, because I wanted to see it. I wanted to see her live, not just watching her on a video screen. And she was wonderful.”
Ripa echoed his sentiments, praising their daughter’s talent by saying, “She was incredible. So, so proud of her. So impressed. She was so funny. She was really funny.”
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Kelly Ripa (left) and Mark Consuelos on ‘Live with Kelly and Mark’
In a clip, captured by HELLO!, Lola spots her parents standing on the side while she’s onstage. Later in the clip, the 24-year-old can be seen embracing her parents offstage.
Consuelos and Ripa, who married in May 1996 after meeting on the soap opera All My Children, share two sons — Joaquin, 22, and Michael, 28 — in addition to their daughter. During an episode of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, Ripa opened up about how the loyal viewers of her talk show are like extended family members, especially when it comes to her and husband’s three children.
“Our children are fully aware. They’ll meet people on the street that will come up to them and say, ‘I watched you grow up. It is such a pleasure to see you as an adult,’ ” Ripa told host Amanda Hirsch.
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Lola Consuelos performs in London
She explained, “When my kids were little, they had the opportunity to come on and do, like, little segments … and people got a glimpse into their lives. And then they grew up, and they move on, and they move out, and they move out of the country in some cases, and and people don’t get to regularly check in with them.”
“And so I feel like, once in a while, it’s important to sort of let people in because I feel like they had a group experience. My kids had a group childhood. It was like they had lots of aunties, lots of uncles, lots of grandparents,” Ripa continued.
The talk show host went on to say that her kids didn’t just have their parents and siblings as their village. Instead, they have people all across America and in Canada “raising them in some way.”
“It wasn’t just our parents and our siblings They had, like, America and Canada raising them in some way,” she said. “And so and [the viewers] really looked out for them and rooted for them, and they are fully aware of that.”
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Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos and their children
These days, Consuelos and Ripa are enjoying their time as empty nesters. During a February appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Live with Kelly and Mark duo opened up about life with their three now-adult children out of the house, with Consuelos revealing the one thing he does now.
“[Their rooms are] pretty much preciously how they left them, but I’ve been going around and using their bathrooms,” he admitted to host Jimmy Kimmel. When he asked why Consuelos was using his kids’ bathrooms, he responded, “Because we paid for the house and I’ve never sat there, so I wanted to sit there.”
After his explanation, Ripa jokingly added, “And, I, for one, am thankful.”
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