During a recent interview, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos likened couples renewing their wedding vows to a “kiss of death” for a marriage.
During Thursday’s “Live! With Kelly and Mark” show, the 52-year-old talk show host and Consuelos — who have been married for more than 25 years — said that vow renewals in marriages feel like a “pre-divorce” move, People magazine reported.
“We are very superstitious about vow renewals,” Ripa said, calling them the “kiss of death” and should come with “divorce papers.”
“I just feel like a vow renewal is a pre-divorce,” she added. “It’s like, ‘We’re not getting along … I know what we should do!'”
Consuelos agreed and said that “vow renewals” seems to come after the husband “messed up” somehow.
“And I’m not talking about ‘leaved the toilet seat up,'” the “Riverdale” star said. “I’m talking about messed up!”
When the couple was pressed by executive producer Michael Gelman about doing one live on the air, they replied in unison, “Noooooo.”
Ripa and Consuelos met on the ABC soap opera “All My Children” and eloped to Las Vegas in May 1996. The couple shares three children together.
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In April, Consuelos became Ripa’s cohost after Ryan Seacrest left the show. On Thursday’s show, the pair also reminisced about that Vegas wedding at the Chapel of the Bells.
“We’ve met other couples who have gotten married there who have also been married for thousands of years,” Ripa said. “That place is special.”
“They didn’t even know our names!” Consuelos joked, recalling how the officiant told them ‘Bride, do you take groom? Groom, do you take [bride]?'”
He also said the officiant told them that “Marriage is not to be entered into lightly.”
“I was looking around the room — and we’re in Vegas, and it looks like Vegas — and I was like, ‘This is pretty light,'” Consuelos added.