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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos had their turkey with a side of mashed potatoes and tension this Thanksgiving.
The daytime television pair dished all about their family’s holiday on Monday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark,” with Ripa telling viewers that she and Consuelos had plenty of “arguments” after he said put his two-cents in about her cooking.
The former soap opera starlet, 54, shared that “all the kids home, all the roommates,” referring to their three children: Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 21. “It was great.”
“A lot of fun,” she said as her husband added, “A lot of laughs” before Ripa replied, “A lot of festive arguments.”
She explained that the main argument centered around her mashed potatoes.
“He shows up as an honored guest at Thanksgiving,” she explained, referring to Consuelos, whom she married 28 years ago, adding that he thinks “the food just materializes.”
Ripa went on to share that Consuelos had some complaints despite not cooking the Thanksgiving feast himself.
“He complained to me because there was too much butter in the mashed potatoes,” she said during the broadcast. Consuelos didn’t ease up on live television, either.
“Well, do we want to talk about that, or should we just let you say that?” he asked, to which his wife answered, “No, I just put a chunk of butter on top expecting it to melt down.”
“Uh huh,” Consuelos egged her on. “And did it?”
Ripa continued to argue over the issue.
“No, you without looking just took your scoop, scooped up the pat of butter and put it on your plate and then complained to me,” she claimed.
But the fight didn’t end there as Consuelos admitted to taking a passive-aggressive approach at the dinner table.
According to him, he waited “7 minutes into the dinner” before showing her his plate with a “block of butter like about the size of half my hand.”
He told viewers, “And I go to her, ‘Did you put any butter in this?’ And I show it to her. Only after 28 years of marriage could you get away with, ‘Did you put butter in this?’”
Ripa also explained the buttery potatoes weren’t the only food they fought about over the holiday weekend.
“So after doing nothing all weekend, I thought that Mark should man the pizza oven cause he actually read the instruction manual and he knows how to use the thing. But you became so moody,” she told him.
But he failed to take his wife’s advice on how to cook the pies.
“I said, ‘You have to par-bake them.’ And then after three he goes, ‘We’re not par-baking them anymore, it’s pointless, we don’t need to do that!’” Ripa shared. “So then Mark did it his way and made what I like to call ‘Soup Pizza.’”
Despite Ripa’s grievances, Consuelos stood by his pizza.
“No, they were so thin, they weren’t soupy this year,” he insisted while Ripa shared she tossed two of his pizzas out.
“Well two out of 12 isn’t bad,” Consuelos quipped.
