Kelly Ripa was missing from her usual co-hosting gig on “Live with Kelly and Mark” on Wednesday because she lost her voice.
“Yesterday you could tell she was losing her voice a little bit – it’s gone, it’s lost,” Ripa’s husband and co-anchor, Mark Consuelos, explained at the top of the show.
Longtime “Live” announcer Déjà Vu filled in for Ripa and asked if she “was OK?”
“Yeah, she’s gonna feel better, she’s just resting a little bit,” Consuelos assured her and fans while adding, “I’m sure she’ll feel better soon.”
Later on in the show, Consuelos mentioned that he “was quarantining” away from Ripa, so he “didn’t get the laryngitis.”
Consuelos and Déjà Vu chatted about trending topics like Mark Cuban reportedly selling the Dallas Mavericks, the special treatment Consuelos gets on flights and basketball season starting.
The duo interviewed comedian Sebastian Maniscalco and illusionist David Blaine, and Ripa was even included on the show when they played a 2006 clip of her participating in one of Blaine’s stunts.
Ripa, 53, and Consuelos, 52, have been co-hosting the show since April after longtime host Ryan Seacrest left the show.
Ripa has previously taken the occasional sick day, and she was even absent for three episodes within two weeks over the summer.
A source told Pvnew at the time that she was using some of her “scheduled days off” which is “totally normal during the summer.”
At one point, the couple’s close friend Anderson Cooper filled in for Ripa.
The husband and wife duo have not been shy in talking about their personal lives over the last few months, and aren’t strangers to fans occasionally criticizing the PDA.
Even John Stamos appeared as a guest on the show and joked about being “tired” of hearing about the two “having sex all the time.”
Consuelos even teased to Pvnew that they “can’t help it if we’re sexy” in October.
“Live with Kelly and Mark” airs weekdays at 9 a.m. ET on ABC.
