Mark Consuelos and his spouse, Kelly Ripa, are having fun with being empty-nesters — maybe a bit too a lot.
“It’s nice,” Consuelos, 53, stated throughout the Thursday, February 27, episode of Jimmy Kimmel Reside! alongside his spouse, 54. “Their [rooms] are just about exactly how they left them, however I’ve been going round and utilizing their bogs.”
Consuelos and Ripa, who’ve been married since 1996, are dad and mom to sons Michael, 27, and Joaquin, 22, in addition to daughter Lola, 23.
Based on Consuelos, he has a selected cause for utilizing their non-public commodes.
DISNEY/Lorenzo Bevilaqua Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos labored intently with designer William Sofield to customise their opulent townhouse on New York Metropolis’s Higher East Aspect — they usually haven’t any intention of leaving. “We’ve moved a number of instances in our lives, however irrespective of the place we go, for me, that is my ceaselessly dwelling,” Ripa, 54, […]
“Nicely, as a result of we paid for the home and I’ve by no means sat there,” the actor defined. “I needed to sit down there.”
Ripa, for her half, is on board along with her partner’s quest for separate bogs.
“I, for one, am grateful,” she joked on Thursday’s episode. “That’s why we get alongside!”
The married Reside With Kelly and Mark cohosts are based mostly in New York Metropolis, the place they host their eponymous daytime speak present. Additionally they raised Michael, Lola and Joaquin within the Large Apple earlier than they every left dwelling upon respective highschool and faculty graduations.
“I don’t need to sound morbid, however they’ll have to hold me out of right here feet-first as a result of I’ve gotten good and cozy on this home,” Ripa jokingly advised Architectural Digest in December 2024 of the couple’s dream townhouse. “[When I first saw the house], I used to be like, ‘It’s good, simply hand me my toothbrush.’”
Celebration of 5! After assembly on the set of All My Youngsters, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos quickly discovered a real-life romance and started to develop their household. The Reside With Kelly and Ryan host and the Riverdale alum wed in 1996, and eldest son Michael was born one 12 months later. Daughter Lola and son Joaquin adopted in 2001 and 2003, respectively. […]
Consuelos, nonetheless, wanted extra convincing.
“We would have liked a spot for all of the scooters, bikes and sports activities tools,” he famous to AD.
Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, Lola Consuelos, Michael Consuelos and Joaquin Consuelos. Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic
After Consuelos and Ripa renovated the property — together with including a cigar room for the Riverdale alum — it was lastly move-in prepared.
“I actually really feel at dwelling right here,” Consuelos confused to the design journal, noting that the wall exterior the first bed room additionally options tributes to the now-adult kids. “These are our children’ eyes [hanging up as artwork]. They don’t stay right here anymore, so after we depart our bed room, it seems like they’re nonetheless with us.”
Based on Ripa, she “may stare at [the] children’ eyes ceaselessly” earlier than revealing how she and Consuelos handle being in the home with out Michael, Joaquin and Lola’s fixed presence.
“I really feel such as you and I stay effectively collectively,” she added to AD. “[Sharing a closet and bathroom has] additionally pressured us to be very diligent about what we purchase, carrying what we have now and never being wasteful. It retains you sincere.”
