Al Roker made his way into the conversation on Live with Kelly and Mark on Tuesday.
Mark Consuelos recalled when Good Morning America previously brought him on as one of their “celebrity weathermen,”and how he accidentally used the Today Show mainstay’s tagline.
“They said the only thing you don’t say is ‘Here’s what’s happening in your neck of the woods,’” he remembered, referring to Roker’s slogan over at the NBC morning show, which is a competitor to ABC, Live‘s home network.
Consuelos continued, “And they put it in my head. Now it’s in my head. And that’s what I said. And they never had me back. I love Al. Hey, Al.”
Kelly Ripa ribbed her husband and co-host for the flub, teasing that he “had one job.” After Consuelos said that he “knew it was a bad idea,” Ripa was reminded of a voicemail she once received from Roker. She said she and Consuelos had exchanged numbers with him and his wife, Deborah Roberts, after sitting with them at an event, with the purpose of scheduling a “couples’ date.”
“Back in the early iPhone phases… entire text chains would pop up, or, if you left a voicemail, like cellphones were wild. So Mark’s cellphone number and my cellphone number would get confused, like in contacts,” Ripa explained.
Consuelos, who was “working in Canada” and “not living home a lot” at the time, recalled Ripa’s phone being in bed when a message came up.
“This text went, ‘Hey sweetie. When can we have dinner? Love, Al,” Consuelos recalled. “Something like that.”
Ripa clarified, “First of all, it did not say, ‘Hey sweetie.’ That’s you, like, putting your own twist on it.”
Consuelos quipped, “That’s what I saw. She gets back into bed, and I go, ‘Who the blank is Al?’”
Ripa replied, “And I go, ‘Al Roker, our new best friend!’”
The co-host couple looked back on the “wild” and “very funny” moment, as Ripa teased that they “never had that couples’ date” and should try to make it happen. Toward the end of their host chat, Ripa revisited the story as she brought up a Live segment on “romantic retreats.”
“Another thing we can fantasize about, a romantic retreat,” she told Consuelos, who did not match her enthusiasm. “Or not.”
Consuelos added, “I think whenever we go somewhere, it’s romantic.”
“We’ll go to your neck of the woods, Al… ‘Who the blank is Al?’” Ripa joked. “He’s my lover, I said it!”
After cracking up, Consuelos concluded, “I condone that.”
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