Kelly Ripa is cooking up a questionable reason for acquiring real estate.
The “Live with Kelly and Mark” host recently teased that after watching a certain hit AMC show, she felt she could follow in a one Walter White’s footsteps.
After her husband and co-host, Mark Consuelos, shot down the idea of buying the home in New Mexico — where actor Bryan Cranston’s “Breaking Bad” was filmed — Ripa, 54, recounted a fond memory of watching the series that aired from 2008 to 2013.
“Do you remember, Gelman, when I was like, ‘I think I can make meth!’ because I’ve seen ‘Breaking Bad?’” Ripa asked her producer Michael Gelman on Tuesday’s episode.
“I’m like a chef. I like to watch cooking shows — baking shows, really, I’m more of a baker, which is science, which, apparently so is making crystal meth,” the actress continued. “So, I became convinced that I, too, could make crystal meth.”
Consuelos, 53, then stepped in to assist his wife’s hilarious explanation.
“You also think you can figure-skate when you watch the Olympics,” Consuelos quipped, to which Ripa responded by sharing her extensive routine for watching the Winter Olympics.
“I have a – – hole syndrome. I do. I have it. If I see anything on TV, I’m then like, ‘I can totally do that,’ and every Winter Olympics, I move all the furniture in the living room. I do,” Ripa admitted. “I move the furniture, I put on my socks, and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do living room Olympics,’ check out my triple salchow. Guess what? I can land it! Sorry, don’t hate the player, hate the game.”
“Breaking Bad” followed Cranston’s Walter White, a chemistry teacher with terminal cancer who resorts to cooking meth with a former student to make money for his family.
And now, the fictional character’s real-life New Mexico home is on the market for $3.9 million. Along with being a place of Hollywood history, the 1,910 square-foot home features three bedrooms, two bathrooms, a dining room, living room, kitchen and two-car garage.
The backyard also boasts a large swimming pool with a diving board.
Despite the show going off the air over a decade ago, fans continue to visit the home, which eventually became too much for its current owner, Joanne Quintana.
Quintana recently spoke to KOB-TV, admitting that she didn’t mind the fan visits at first, but following the death of her parents, she and her siblings decided it was time to sell the home.
“This was our family home from 1973, almost 52 years. So, we’re going to walk away with just our memories. It’s time to move on. We’re done. There’s no reason to fight anymore,” she told the Albuquerque television station.
Quintana revealed her family had grown close with the cast and crew during filming of the drama and shared some behind-the-scenes moments, including the fact that her mother Fran always baked cookies for everyone on set.
“What was funny was Bryan Cranston could not eat not one cookie. Because he had cancer in the show, so he was losing weight,” recalled Quintana. “So, he would pass, but everybody – all the directors, all the writers – would eat the cookies. The last day of shooting, he takes a picture holding my mom’s biscotti because he finally got to eat her cookies.”
She even enjoyed watching the show’s second leading man, Aaron Paul, who played crystal meth cook and dealer, Jesse Pinkman, get into character.
“Aaron Paul had to grunt and get angry to get into his character of Jesse. That was awesome. And the magic of Hollywood, nobody will ever get to experience what we did.”
