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“The Bachelorette” Season 21 lead Jenn Tran addressed the backlash surrounding her awkward exchange with Kelly Ripa on the July 8 episode of “Live With Kelly and Mark.” During the show Ripa, 53, questioned Tran’s decision to seek love on reality TV, prompting Tran to point out Ripa’s own on-set love story with husband Mark Consuelos.“Honestly, I will say, Kelly and I, it was all in good fun,” Tran, 26, said during the July 15 episode of the “Trading Secrets” podcast. “We have this sarcastic banter.

Monday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark.”“I saw an interesting sign over here,” Consuelos, 53, pointed out to his co-host and wife.“We have talked about this in the past,” Ripa, 53, told the live audience during the show. “Mark and I had a baby on ‘All My Children,’ baby Enzo. And we’ve often wondered, ‘Whatever happened to baby Enzo? Where is baby Enzo?’ And baby Enzo is in our audience today.”The couple first met in the 1990s while starring in the long-running soap opera series.

No backing out! Mark Consuelos made his official debut as wife Kelly Ripa‘s cohost on Monday, April 17 — with a few special guests in the audience.

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Kelly Ripa has detailed how she feared she would get divorced from husband Mark Consuelos after their third child moved to college and left them as empty-nesters.MORE: Kelly Ripa makes surprisingly candid confession about the beginning of her marriage"It's scary, thrilling, liberating, shocking... and quiet," Kelly shared of living in a house with just Mark after raising three children over their 26 years of marriage.WATCH: Kelly Ripa and Michael Consuelos get into discussion about her eating habits"There were moments when I was like, 'We're going to be that couple: Our third child goes to college and we get divorced because this is it.' But there was this other moment, where we went to the beach alone for the first time since our honeymoon with cheese and a baguette,' she told People, adding that she realized she now had time to notice the sunset."So I think for us, it was 'Oh, this next phase of our lives, this is kind of great.'"Mark and Kelly wed in 1996 and the TV personality added that looking back they were both too young to get married but they have "fought for our marriage when it would have been easier to quit and throw in the towel".The two met on the set of All My Children when Kelly played the character of Hayley Vaughan and her husband, fittingly, her love interest Mateo Santos.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos' love seriously goes way back. Fans of the longtime couple can't help but gush at the latest throwback the Live! With Kelly and Ryan host just shared on Instagram.MORE: Kelly Ripa's lookalike daughter steals the spotlight in sweet family photoThe star further proved just how "couple goals" the two truly are with the unbelievable picture, and that the love they have for one another was right there from the start.The image is from their time on the popular soap opera they both appeared in, All My Children, which ran from 1970 to 2013.WATCH: Kelly's eating habits are the talk of LIVE in amusing video with MarkMORE: Kelly Ripa's unrecognisable transformation in before-and-after beach photosThe morning talk show host played the character of Hayley Vaughan starting in 1990, and she met her future husband when he began playing his character of Mateo Santos in 1995.

Kelly Ripa may be one of the most successful talk show hosts on the planet, but she stays humble. The “Live With Kelly and Ryan” host spoke to Entertainment Tonight and reflected on all the wonderful things the soap opera “All My Children” brought to her life, including her husband Mark Consuelos.A post shared by Kelly Ripa (@kellyripa)The sometimes naughty Hollywood power couple first met on the set of the show all the way back in 1995.

Kelly Ripa is thinking back to the start of her relationship with her husband, Mark Consuelos. ET's Rachel Smith speaks to Ripa on Tuesday's Entertainment Tonight about how her and Consuelos' life together began while they were both starring on as Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos.The pair tied the knot in 1996 and went on to have three kids, Michael, 23, Lola, 19, and Joaquin, 17." is responsible for my entire life.

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are truly a one-of-a-kind couple. The two have been together for decades, and consistently prove that they have one of the strongest romantic partnerships in Hollywood. Fans have loved watching each new chapter of their love story, and we’re going all the way back to the beginning to see how their relationship started!

Kelly Ripa has had a decades-long career on the small screen and over the years has amassed such a loyal fanbase and maintained her title as one of America’s sweethearts. Before she was waking viewers up Monday-Friday on Live With Kelly & Ryan, Kelly was a burgeoning soap star on the long-running series All My Children. Today, we’re taking a look back at how Kelly rose to fame and became one of our favorite daytime hosts!

Who knew that a 1995 screen test for All My Children would result in one of Hollywood’s most successful love stories? More than two decades into their marriage, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos continue to make Us swoon with their passion and adoration for each other.