Finding love on set! Soap operas together with Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and One Life to Live have impressed love tales each on and off the display.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos began courting shortly after enjoying love pursuits on All My Children in 1995.
“I auditioned him. They’d been looking for this character for some time … They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor. So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city and around the city and then California,” Ripa detailed throughout a SiriusXM interview in August 2018. “Then all of a sudden, Judy Blye Wilson, who was the casting director in All My Children, said, ‘I found him’ … [Judy] showed me his picture and … when I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes]. Like, I saw it. I [didn’t] believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.”
Following one 12 months of courting, the couple eloped in Las Vegas and later expanded their household with children Michael, Joaquin and Lola. Ripa and Consuelos reunited on display a number of instances through the years with tasks corresponding to Hope & Faith and Riverdale.
“[Riverdale creator] Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] called me and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a question to ask you. Do you think she’d want to do it?’ And I said, ‘You know, yeah. Give her a call!’ They spoke and they figured it out,” the Spain native, who performed Hiram Lodge on the hit CW collection, solely informed Us Weekly in 2019. “Roberto’s awesome, man. No one knows this world better than him. He just made it happen. I definitely did not ask for him to do that. I think he thought it would be so much fun.”
In February 2023, Ripa introduced that Consuelos can be her new cohost on Live after Ryan Seacrest‘s departure.
“We figured that since we started our careers together, we might as well finish them together,” the duo informed Us in regards to the choice to work collectively once more. “We figured the idea ‘what could possibly go wrong?’ is something we’d definitely like to explore. Now, we have the chance.”
Meanwhile, Susan Walters and Linden Ashby exchanged vows three months after assembly on ABC’s Loving in 1986. Walters, who has starred in a number of tasks together with her husband through the years, gushed about their connection after three a long time of marriage.
“37 years (and a day) of dogs and daughters, horses and houses, friends and family, ups and downs… and love. ❤️❤️❤️,” the actress captioned an Instagram put up in April 2023. “Happy Anniversary to the one I’m so lucky to be living my life with.”
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