Mark Consuelos admits “Live with Kelly and Mark” has gone “off the rails” at times since he began co-hosting the show this week.
The “Riverdale” alum said his strategy was “to be in the moment” while helming the daytime talk show with his wife, Kelly Ripa.
“I can’t do tomorrow’s show now, I can’t do yesterday’s show over again,” he said Wednesday on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show with Julia Cunningham.”
“If it’s great, great. If it’s not so great, we’ll try better next time. And that’s been my approach. Just kind of be in the moment.”
Consuelos went on to describe the show as “irreverent” and said he enjoys conversations getting off topic.
“I enjoy the first 20 minutes so much. We often have five or six different things we’re gonna talk about,” he explained.
“And I love the days when we get to none of those and we go off on some left turn to Albuquerque and it’s just off the rails and we go back and it’s not even when we talk about our shared lives together,” he continued.
“Maybe when we’re both kids in different worlds and talking about our experiences. That’s what I love about the show.”
As for topics that are totally off limits, Consuelos said he and Ripa, both 52, haven’t discussed “any third rails” but have “telepathy” about what’s appropriate.
“I think we’ve got a pretty good sense of what that line is. It’ll probably move back and forth a little bit, you know? But we haven’t had too many discussions about, ‘OK, well that’s off limits, right?’ I think it’s just kind of in our brains,” the actor explained.
“We often have conversations with us just looking at each other, like, ‘Are we gonna do this?’ Or ’No, we’re not doing this. Of course we’re not doing this.’ So we have – we have that telepathy that married couples after 27 years kind of do.”
As Pvnew previously reported, Consuelos took over the co-hosting gig from Ryan Seacrest earlier this year following a six-year run.
The “American Idol” host officially announced in February that he was stepping down from the hit morning show.
Ripa and Consuelos said “I do” in May 1996 and share three children: Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 20.
“Live with Kelly and Mark” airs weekdays at 9 a.m. ET.
