Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' Relationship Timeline

Mar. 15, 2025

Kelly RipaandMark Consuelosare sharing the small screen once again.

In February 2023, it was announced thatConsuelos would be joining his wife as her new co-hostonLivefollowingRyan Seacrest’s departure from the daytime show. Conseulos made his hosting debut on the series, which is nowLive with Kelly and Mark, on April 17, 2023.

The couple first met in 1995 when Consuelos filmed a screen test with Ripa forAll My Children. Their chemistry was instant, and after Consuelos was hired to play Ripa’s love interest on the daytime drama, their relationship turned romantic. Less than a year into their romance, they eloped in Las Vegas in 1996, and have since welcomed three children together.

“We’re very lucky that we found each other, that’s what I have to say,” Ripatold AOL in a 2015 interview. “I would say to Mark, ‘Who would we have married if not each other?’ "

From their costarring soap opera days to their sweet social media tributes, here’s everything you need to know aboutKelly Ripaand Mark Consuelos' relationship.

1995: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos meet at his audition forAll My Children

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“When I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes] — like I saw it,“she revealed in 2018on “Lunch with Bruce.” “And I don’t believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.”

However, Consuelos had no idea he even had a chance with Ripa after their steamy screen test. “I thought she was adorable, hot and sexy and all that stuff, but I was very focused — I didn’t really think I had a chance with her, so I wasn’t really focused on that,” hetold HuffPost Live.

Consuelos' focus paid off, and he was cast as Mateo Santos on the show. The pair started dating shortly after.

February 1996: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos make their public debut as a couple

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Consuelos and Ripa tried to keep their romance quiet in the beginning to avoid any professional conflicts. “People tend to think there’ll be problems when you’re dating your costar,” Consueloslater shared.

After a few months of dating, however, the couple finally made their public debut on the red carpet at theSoap Opera Digest Awards.

April 1996: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos briefly split up

Less than a year into their relationship, the couple briefly broke up. But as Ripa later pointed out, their separation didn’t last long. In fact, they got married the very next week.

May 1, 1996: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos elope in Las Vegas

The pair jetted off to Las Vegas the next day and tied the knot at the Chapel of the Bells.

May 1996: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos go to Rome and Capri for their honeymoon

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For their honeymoon, the newlywedsheaded to Italy, where they took in the sights in Rome and Capri. As Consuelos later toldSoap Opera Digest, “She deserved a beautiful place to go, and I couldn’t think of a more beautiful place than Italy.”

June 2, 1997: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos welcome their first child together

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Just over a year after Ripa and Consuelos wed in Las Vegas, Ripa gave birth to their first child, Michael Joseph. The pair chose theirAll My ChildrencostarEva LaRueto be Michael’s godmother.

June 2000: Ripa and Consuelos' characters tie the knot onAll My Children

Ripa and Consuelos got to relive their big day in June 2000 when their characters Hayley and Mateo got married onAll My Children.

“I think [Kelly] might get a little nostalgic or maybe regret the fact that she didn’t get to have that big wedding,” Consueloslater said of the couple’s elopement. “But I quickly point out to her that we had a number of weddings.”

February 2001: Kelly Ripa joinsLive! With Regis and Kellywith the support of Mark Consuelos

In early 2001, Ripa embarked on a new career journey when she took overKathie Lee Gifford’s co-hosting gig alongsideRegis Philbinfor the daytime talk show.

Years later, Riparevealedthat while she was initially hesitant to accept the job, Consuelos persuaded her.

“I wanted to raise my kids. I didn’t want to have them and never get to see them,” she said in 2021, adding that Consuelos “made sacrifices” so that Ripa could be more hands-on with their children’s day-to-day activities.

June 16, 2001: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos welcome daughter Lola to the family

Ripa and Consuelos welcomed their second child, daughter Lola Grace, to the family shortly after she joinedLive!.

“I heard that [lyric], when he said, ‘Her name was Lola,’ and I said to Mark, ‘Lola Consuelos would be a really cool name.’ And he said, ‘If she’s a girl, let’s name her Lola.’ And that was it,” Ripalater explained on her show.

February 24, 2003: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos welcome their third child

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Ripa and Consuelos welcomed their son Joaquin Antonio on Feb. 24, 2003. Theyshared the happy newsonLive! With Regis and Kelly, with Ripa calling her co-host Philbin from her hospital bed while he was taping the show.

2007: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos start their own production company

In 2007, the couple became business partners when theylaunched their productioncompanyMilojo, which is a combination of the first two letters of each of their children’s names.

January 2010: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos return toAll My Children

In honor of the soap opera’s 40th anniversary, Ripa and Consuelosreprised their rolesfor a two-episode arc onAll My Children.

April 2016: Mark Consuelos supports Kelly Ripa through Michael Strahan’s departure fromLive!

“Mark is such a smart guy and is always in the face of business very dispassionate,” she said of Consuelos. “He looks at it like a business decision, and he says to me, ‘There’s nobody better at this than you,’ spoken like a supportive spouse.”

April 2016: Kelly Ripa wears her wedding dress for her and Mark Consuelos' 20th wedding anniversary

Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa.Courtesy Kelly Ripa

Shortly after Strahan’s announcement, the couple jetted off with their children to Turks and Caicos for a pre-planned 20th wedding anniversary celebration. As a source told PEOPLE at the time, the trip was just the distraction Ripa needed after the bombshell news.

“It’s fortuitous that she had this trip planned with her husband,” the insider revealed.

However, as Riparevealed onLive!after returning home, there were plenty of high notes to celebrate from the trip despite its initial turbulence. She shared photos from the getaway with Strahan and the audience, including one sweet snap of Ripa posing with Consuelos in a long white dress — which she revealed was actually her wedding gown!

Ripa explained that while she married Consuelos 20 years ago, she’d actually owned the dress for 25 years.

“I didn’t buy it as a wedding dress. I just bought it because it was really pretty, and I wanted to buy something from the Barney’s Warehouse sale,” Ripa shared, before calling the purchase “the best $199 I ever spent in my life.”

January 30, 2019: Kelly Ripa plays Mark Consuelos' mistress onRiverdale

Ripa and Consuelos got the chance to relive their costarring days when she guest-starred on his showRiverdalein 2019. While Ripa originally played Consuelos' wife onAll My Children, she took on the role of mistress to his character Hiram Lodge for herRiverdaledebut.

The actressannouncedher guest appearance on Instagram with a photo from set. “It’s a family affair … Hiram’s mistress. 23 years of auditioning for a role I was born to play,” she captioned the post.

Consuelos alsospoke to PEOPLEahead of the episode’s premiere about having his wife on set.

“It was so much fun,” he shared. “We got to spend the weekend up in Vancouver [whereRiverdaleis filmed] and we had a nice little weekend there.”

June 16, 2019: Kelly Ripa shares that her daughter walked in during an intimate moment with Mark Consuelos

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Consuelos has served as Ripa’s co-host onLive!plenty of times over the years, but during an especially memorable appearance in 2019, the couplerecounted the storyof when their daughter Lola walked in on them having sex.

“We started her day off pretty bad yesterday; it happened again,” Consuelos revealed, noting that it was actually Lola’s 18th birthday when the embarrassing encounter took place. “She knocked on our door — our bedroom door.”

“She shuts the door and you hear, ‘You just ruined my birthday! And my life! And I used to see in color and now everything is gray,’ " Ripa told the audience.

February 9, 2020: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos attend the Academy Awards

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On the red carpet, Ripa joked that the two men should keep their distance from her.

“I’m wearing full-body makeup and I don’t want to get it on you and you, my two husbands,” she told Consuelos and Seacrest.

September 30, 2020: Kelly Ripa reveals Mark Consuelos' “superpower”

Ahead of her 50th birthday, Ripa toldET Canadathat her husband’s “superpower” is his ability to treat his spouse “like the only person in the world.”

“We’ve been together a long time, but all Mark has to do is look at me [and I] feel so special, so pretty and so young,” she said. “He’s got the best smile I’ve ever seen, so when he smiles it’s like the sun’s shining on you.”

April 2021: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos discuss the dynamics of their long relationship

On an episode of theDouble Datepodcast, Ripa and Consuelosopened upabout their “traditional” marriage.

Ripa revealed that while the pair considers themselves “progressive people,” they are “almost old-fashioned” when it comes to their relationship.

“She makes the home a home,” Consuelos added of his wife.

September 21, 2021: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos reveal the secret to their marriage

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During an episode ofLive With Kelly and Ryan, Ripa and Consuelosshared some of their tipsfor a happy marriage.

Ripa revealed that when it comes to resolving issues, her husband always puts her needs first. And while Consuelos added that “love” is the key to settling any marital disputes, Ripa had a slightly different answer: “Love and sexy time.”

May 1, 2022: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos mark their 26th wedding anniversary

In honor of their 26th wedding anniversary, Ripa and Consuelosdedicated sweet social media tributesto each other.

Ripa posted athrowback photoof the couple with the caption, “26 years with the love of my life!”

Consuelos also shared an adorable snap of him and Ripa, along with a sketch of two penguins holding hands under the words “mate for life.” “Happy anniversary! 26 years. Penguin status,” he wrote.

August 16, 2022: Kelly Ripa gives details on her elopement with Mark Consuelos

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos.Frazer Harrison/Getty

On an episode ofLive with Kelly and Ryan, Ripa shareddetailsfrom her 1996 elopement in Las Vegas with Consuelos. “We just had a very normal, very regular wedding,” said Ripa. “It really is such an efficient way to get married. And it was fun. We were like, ‘Now, this is gambling! Woohoo!’ "

It seems the low-key ceremony was the right choice because Ripa admitted that if she and her husband planned a large wedding, they might not have walked down the aisle after all.

“I don’t think we would have made it to the wedding,” Ripa said. “There would have been hard feelings and blame all over the place. And I can honestly say, we do not feel less married. As a matter of fact, we feel more married than those people, because we’re still married.”

Ripa also pointed out that their out-of-state nuptials didn’t break the bank. “$179 for a wedding, including airfare, cause we had miles and we had a canceled trip or something,” she explained. “But $179 in total — total with everything.”

September 26, 2022: Kelly Ripa admits she and Mark Consuelos were too young to get married

In her PEOPLE cover story, Ripa candidly talked about her marriage with Consuelos. She even admitted that she was “too young to get married” at the age of 25.

“On paper, it should not have worked and when it didn’t work, we really worked at it,” she explained. “We fought for our marriage when it would have been easier to quit and throw in the towel. Listen, my parents have been married for 61 years and Mark’s parents have been married for 55 years. We didn’t know any other way.”

But through all the ups and downs of marriage, their sex life “has always been very good,” Ripa said, adding that “even when we’re arguing, it’s good.”

The television host also told PEOPLE that she was nervous at first about how thisnew phase of life as empty nesterswould affect her and Consuelos' relationship.

“There were moments when I was like, ‘We’re going to be that couple: Our third child goes to college and we get divorced because this is it,’ " she said, laughing. “But there was this other moment, where we went to the beach alone for the first time since our honeymoon with cheese and a baguette. These other parents were running around us with small kids. I realized I had never noticed the sunset because I was making sure our kids didn’t run into the water when I wasn’t looking.”

November 10, 2022: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos become co-owners of Italian soccer team

Ripa and Consuleos are thenew co-owners of Campobasso 1919. Founded over 100 years ago, the team has a massive fan base in the Molise region of Southern Italy.

“The Campobasso project is the quintessential underdog story,” Consuelos said in a statement. “When I sat with [North Sixth Group’s chairman] and heard the story about these fans being at risk of losing the sport they love, Kelly and I wanted to get involved and be part of the solution.”

Ripa shared somefunny memories from giving birthwhile responding to an Instagram post that asked for people to comment “one thing your partner did, said or brought to the hospital that really helped you through your birth experience.”

Also: “I’m going to the batting cages since you’re gonna be here a while.”

February 16, 2023: Mark Consuelos joins Kelly Ripa as her new co-host ofLive

Seacrestannounced that he was leavingLive with Kelly and Ryan, noting plans to move back to the West Coast ahead of theAmerican Idollive shows in Los Angeles. The broadcaster will be permanently replaced with Consuelos, who has guest hosted the show multiple times.

“It’s been a memorable ride and now I’m excited to pass the baton to Kelly’s ‘real’ husband, Mark,” Seacrest said.

“As a fan-favorite guest host for years, Mark is no stranger to theLivefamily,” executive producer Michael Gelman said in a statement. “Having him join the show is so special for us and we’re sure that viewers will feel the same.”

March 2023: Mark Consuelos tells Kelly Ripa why he doesn’t want more kids

Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa.Kevin Mazur/Getty

In an exclusive preview from Ripa’s podcastLet’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, Consuelos said thathe doesn’t want more kids. “I’ll be an older dad,” he said.

When Ripa pointed out that some older men “were just starting to have kids,” her husband replied, “Yeah. And those poor bastards have no idea, because what happens next? You’re talking about hip replacements, knee replacements, and they’re gonna be that dad, not there’s anything wrong with that dad. But I did it early. I didn’t plan it that way. It just happened. And we got really lucky that’s what we did when we did it.”

Still, the actor is excited to see his children have kids, noting that he’s “really looking forward to” being a grandfather.

“That’s about as much parenting as I want,” he added.

March 22, 2023: Mark Consuelos is the first guest on Kelly Ripa’s podcast

Consuelos appeared on the debut episode of Ripa’s podcast,Let’s Talk Off Camera. The couple talked candidly about the early days of their marriage, including the fact that Consuelos used to be an “insanely jealous” person.

“My biggest complaint about you over the course of our marriage — and this is not recent, ‘cause it definitely changed, and I don’t know if I changed or if you changed or if it was some combination of change — but you used to be insanely jealous,” Ripa shared. “And that was a hard pill to swallow. It’svery hard being married to somebody who is jealous. It’s unattractive.”

Ripa and Consuelos went on to discuss the “sexual rituals” they performed over FaceTime while the actor was away filmingRiverdale.

“I became so alarmed at my appearance over FaceTime that I started rigging the computer to hang from a ladder,” theAll My Childrenalum said. “I’m not kidding. I hung the computer over a ladder so that I could look up to Mark and he did not have to see what gravity was actually doing [to me].”

April 12, 2023: Kelly Ripa saysLivewill be “off the rails” with Mark Consuelos as her co-host

Ripa said she was excited to have Consuelos as her permanent co-host onLive.

“To have Mark join me at that desk every day, it’s a dream come true,” she told PEOPLE. “We’ve been so uniquely blessed.It’s going to be off the rails!”

April 17, 2023: Mark Consuelos makes hisLive with Kelly and Markdebut

Consuelos and Ripahosted the first episode ofLive with Kelly and Markon April 17. During the episode, Ripa joked that her husband would be “joining me today — and permanently, until one of us dies.”

The father-of-three thanked Ripa then gave a nod to theirAll My Childrencharacters: “Thank you America, thank you — Hayley and Mateo forever.”

October 31, 2023: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos dress up as Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

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Ripa and Consuelos wore a whopping 50 costumes on the Halloween episode ofLIVE with Kelly and Mark. They dressed up asVanderpump RulesstarsAriana Madix and Tom Sandoval, as well asTaylor Swift and Travis Kelce.

February 28, 2024: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos visit the Las Vegas chapel where they got married

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Recreate Throwback Wedding Photo.Kelly Ripa/Instagram

Ahead of their 28th wedding anniversary, the couplereturned to the Nevada Chapel of The Bells, where they eloped in 1996. Ripa and Consuelos recreated their wedding photo and even officiated the nuptials of a couple.

May 1, 2024: Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos celebrate 28 years of marriage

The couple reflected on their28-year marriagewhile hostingLive with Kelly and Mark.

“I was in bed last night trying to do the math,” Consuelos said. “My benchmark for a long time is going through first grade to being a senior in high school. 12 years is a long time. Like, when you were a kid, that’s a whole lifetime. That’s like doing that twice plus a PhD. Plus 4 years in college and master’s program!”

Ripa jokingly replied, “Should I call you Dr. Consuelos?”

August 11, 2024: Mark Consuelos supports Kelly Ripa at Disney Legends ceremony

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source: people.com