Kelly Ripa has hilariously revealed that she feels a particular connection to dolphins.
The TV host, 53, mentioned in the course of the Tuesday, August 27 episode of Stay with Kelly and Mark that she felt spiritually linked to the majestic mammals whereas on board a ship off the coast of Mexico throughout a good friend’s fiftieth birthday.
The group had rented a ship for “sundown cocktails” once they abruptly discovered themselves surrounded by wild dolphins.
In line with Leisure Weekly, Ripa, whose husband, Mark Consuelos, cohosts the present, then detailed how the revelation surfaced. “We had simply finished the present in Miami, and we’d gone to the Seaquarium and I swam with the dolphins. We have been doing a taped piece the place we talk with the dolphins. So I, Kelly Ripa, soar into the water and I am going, ‘I understand how to speak to the dolphins!’ I’m like, ‘I’m going to name them over!’” she mentioned.
Drawing laughter from Consuelos, 53, Ripa went on to elucidate she felt no hazard whereas swimming in the course of the ocean, regardless of any person within the group urging her to stay cautious.
“Our good friend Brian was standing on the bow of the boat and he’s going, ‘Kel, get again within the boat. These are wild dolphins, these aren’t skilled dolphins,’” Ripa mentioned. “However, in my thoughts, I assumed I might discuss to the dolphins as a result of I’d spoken so fluently to them.”
The couple, who tied the knot in 1996 and share a daughter, Lola, 23, and two sons, Michael, 27, and Joaquin, 21, have beforehand shared their wildlife encounters on the present.
In Might, Consuelos revealed particulars of a seashore incident that noticed a flock of untamed plover birds attacking their whole household on New York’s Lengthy Island.
“We’re strolling alongside the seashore this summer time night, it was sunset-y, with the children, the children have been younger and working round and the birds have been there, taking part in with the birds. This man was strolling towards us,” Consuelos recalled. The birds then started “dive-bombing us and the kids” earlier than the approaching man confronted them.
“He goes, ‘That you must go away these birds alone!’” Consuelos mentioned, earlier than Ripa jumped in and mentioned, “And Mark mentioned, ‘Properly they should go away us alone!’”
Ripa is famend for her hysterical overshares, revealing in the course of the July 25 episode of Stay with Kelly and Mark that she “did one thing backstage that was so inappropriate that, if we weren’t married, I’d most likely be fired proper now.”
She continued: “I felt his [Consuelos’] pants, and so they really feel good. However, I used to be like, ‘My gosh, your thighs really feel like they’re made out of steel or stone.’ Marble! Carved out of marble. I’m backstage rubbing up and down his thighs, like, it doesn’t even appear attainable. I understand individuals are taking a look at us like, ‘Are you OK? Do you neglect that you just’re in a place of work?’ And, sure is the reply!”
Consuelos has cohosted Stay with Kelly and Mark since April 17 2023, changing Ryan Seacrest who filmed his remaining episode three days prior.
Ripa and Consuelos evidently thrive alongside each other each personally and professionally because the couple additionally share a manufacturing firm, Milojo, which they cofounded in 2007.