Kelly Ripa is beaming over her how her husband, Mark Consuelos, did on his first week of co-hosting “Stay with Kelly and Mark.”
“I had no considerations about how nicely he was going to do, and he actually proved me proper,” the “Stay Wire” creator, 52, informed Us Weekly Friday. “I’m so pleased with him, however I used to be by no means nervous.”
Consuelos additionally gave himself a pat on the again following his debut Monday.
“This present at this time actually felt like residence,” he beforehand informed Us Weekly.
“I at all times really feel at residence with Kelly, however [working] collectively this morning simply felt so proper.”
The “Riverdale” actor, additionally 52, added that he and Ripa “at all times” really feel at “ease” when they’re collectively and he feels “fortunate we get to do this every day.”
Consuelos was named as Ryan Seacrest’s official alternative in February, on the identical time it was introduced that the latter can be departing the present after six years.
“That is one thing that [Kelly] and I’ve been speaking about for a very long time, and it was a troublesome, powerful resolution. Final yr we spoke, and I made the choice to make this my final season as co-host,” Seacrest, 48, informed viewers throughout an episode of “Stay.”
The “American Idol” host vowed to return to the speak present “to visitor host and fill in.”
Ripa then mentioned throughout that very same broadcast about Consuelos approaching board, “The one particular person I can consider that’s able to holding [Ryan’s] torch the way in which [he has] held it could be my husband, Mark Consuelos, in what Ryan and I are calling the nation’s weirdest social experiment.”
Web page Six completely reported that ABC had been making an attempt to woo Consuelos for a while.
Insiders beforehand informed us that execs approached the previous “All My Youngsters” star final summer time in regards to the function, with the expectation that Seacrest would depart.
Regardless of the entire assist on stage and behind the scenes, viewers have had combined emotions about Ripa and Consuelos’ on-air paring.
After the married couple’s first present collectively, some known as them out for his or her “faux banter,” whereas others mentioned they “love them collectively.”
They’ve additionally been criticized for his or her on-air PDA and having a brief filming week — the latter of which we’ve been informed is commonplace, because the schedule fluctuates to accommodate the hosts’ different tasks.
Consuelos mentioned in one other interview this week that he’s open to working by what’s — and isn’t — hitting nicely with audiences as time goes on.
The previous cleaning soap star mentioned on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Present with Julia Cunningham” Wednesday, “If it’s nice, nice. If it’s not so nice, we’ll strive higher subsequent time. And that’s been my method. Simply type of be within the second.”