Kelly Ripa Shouts Out ‘All My Children’ Casting Director For Finding Her A Husband: “The Reason That Mark Consuelos And I Are Married”

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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have somebody particular to thank for his or her relationship.

On Wednesday morning’s Reside with Kelly and Mark, Ripa shared that she had attended an occasion on Tuesday (Jan. 14) honoring the fifty fifth anniversary of All My Kids, which Reside followers very nicely know is how the 2 married co-hosts met.

“What a gang was assembled,” she gushed.

Held on the 92nd Avenue Y and hosted by Andy Cohen and Susan Lucci, the occasion was attended by a number of solid members, in addition to the cleaning soap opera’s head author Lorraine Broderick and casting director Judy Blye Wilson. Ripa praised Wilson as “the rationale that Mark Consuelos and I are married.”

“Not solely was she the casting director at All My Kids, however unbeknownst to her, discovered me a husband within the course of,” she quipped.

Consuelos, who performed Mateo alongside Ripa’s Haley on the ABC cleaning soap, mentioned he “received to cease by backstage,” noting that he “needed to see [Wilson] as a result of she discovered me.”

“She plucked me out of obscurity, Gelman,” he defined. “She discovered me in Tampa. Not solely did she discover me and so they set me up for an audition, however as soon as I received there, she actually, actually fought for me.”

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Consuelos defined that he “needed to re-audition” for the function “a pair instances” whereas he was working.

“And if it wasn’t for her, such as you mentioned, I wouldn’t be right here,” he mused. “I actually wouldn’t be right here.”

As for Ripa, she recalled precisely the place she was when Wilson knowledgeable her that Consuelos had been solid.

“I used to be in her workplace, and he or she’s like, ‘I discovered him, I feel I discovered Mateo,'” she shared. “‘He’s by no means carried out something, he’s inexperienced, he’s contemporary out of school. I simply discovered him, this man.’ And he or she confirmed me your headshot, and I used to be like, ‘That’s the man.'”

Whereas Ripa admitted she “didn’t know what [they] have been on the lookout for,” she claimed she “conjured up a imaginative and prescient” in her “thoughts’s eye” of their perfect candidate, and Consuelos was a match.