Kelly Ripa has hope and faith that Mark Consuelos won’t ask for this in the morning.
The talk show host, 54, revealed that she finds the 54-year-old “Riverdale” actor’s preference for morning sex “disgusting.”
“Men are morning people. He hasn’t learned, he’ll never learn,” Ripa said on Wednesday’s episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast. “He wants to kiss. And I have a retainer in. And he’s got his nasal strips on. It’s like we are the most repulsive, disgusting. I’m already pre-disgusted for tomorrow morning.”
Since the couple, who tied the knot in 1996, started working together on “Live with Kelly and Mark,” Ripa has pushed for “night only” intimacy.
And the morning talk show’s early call time has “almost repulsed” Consuelos from wanting morning sex.
“It’s so early, and it’s like a miracle. It’s like a miracle has occurred,” the actress quipped.
Despite her time of day preference, Ripa views sex like exercise, where being consistent in a routine makes it easier to do.
“The more you do it, the more you do it,” she explained. “And so, you just have to do it and then you’re like, ‘Oh, I remember why I like this.’”
Ripa also told host Amanda Hirsch her biggest issue when it comes to working with her husband of 30 years.
“He doesn’t listen to me frequently, and he will tune me out while we are live on the air,” the “All My Children” alum stated. “And I’m like here’s the thing, I’m used to you tuning me out in life, but when you are being paid, highly paid by the way, to literally listen to me, then you have to listen to me.”
“Literally I watch him,” she detailed. “I watch him drift away. And I’m like, ‘Hey don’t do that.’”
Consuelos officially joined Ripa behind the desk in 2023, after Ryan Seacrest’s departure. However, at first, it wasn’t easy to get the soap star on board.
“It was really convincing Mark,” Ripa recalled. “Because initially when they came to Mark, he flat out refused.”
“I also thought that was kind of a bad idea,” she confessed. “I was like a husband and a wife hosting a morning show is different than a husband and wife acting together or producing something together.”
But ultimately, his time on the show has been well-received.
“The audience really responds to Mark because Mark has a gives zero Fs attitude,” Ripa gushed. “And the audience loves that. There’s no artifice with him. If he hates something, he hates it out loud no matter how much we’re supposed to love it.”
“And when he thinks something is dumb,” she noted, “he says it no matter how much we’re supposed to pretend to like whatever the thing is.”
Being real is one thing Ripa and Consuelos — who share kids Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 22 — pride themselves on.
“We have been together for 31 years and we are not afraid to express ourselves publicly, there is no artifice,” the “Hope & Faith” alum continued. “We’re not worried about protecting each other’s feelings. We both just say what is on our minds and I guess people find that relatable.”
As Ripa put it, “I love working with him.”
Just last month, the author called out her partner’s rigid diet.
“So right before the Academy Awards, I was having trouble getting my dress zipped up the side. It was a side-zip dress, and I kept getting zipped into the dress,” Ripa shared on a June episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark.”
After following Consuelos’s super strict, super high protein diet of yogurt, veggies and steak for three days, the dress fit.
“I don’t love it, but I ate exactly how you told me to eat, and that dress zipped right up, no side skin,” she explained.
“And I looked super fit. Super, super fit. So thank you for that.”
However, following his regimen was a one-time thing.
“It’s the only time I’ve listened to Mark about my diet because I typically don’t like to do what you’re doing,” Ripa went on. “I just find, you’re like, way too disciplined. I can’t live that way. But for 72 hours, I can live like Mark Consuelos, so I lived like Mark Consuelos for 72 hours.”
Meanwhile, some people aren’t interested in hearing every detail Ripa and Consuelos share with the public.
“I’m pretty sure they’ve blocked us,” she told E! News in 2023 about her children. “When you have a news feed and it says ‘Suggest more or suggest this, like this or block this channel,’ I’m certain they have blocked any channel with any mention of our names. Just like they block us on social media. They block us any way they can.”
