Mark Consuelos accidentally let an intrusive thought slip about Kelly Ripa on Thursday’s Live with Kelly and Mark.
On the topic of limes, which Consuelos said Ripa “love[s],” Ripa shared that the citrus was a particular favorite of hers when she was pregnant.
She began, “When I was pregnant — do you remember? — I would eat —”
“Everything,” Consuelos blurted out before Ripa had the chance to finish saying “limes.”
After his slip-up resulted in a glare from Ripa and some laughter from the audience, Consuelos began nervously chuckling as he realized what just came out of his mouth.
“Wait did I — I said that?” he said. “It happened. It happened. I actually thought it and things just — it came out of my mouth.”
Ripa finally asked, “Are you done?”
After Consuelos confirmed that he was in fact done, Ripa explained that she “used to eat whole limes and lemons with the skin on them,” which she admitted was a “weird food fixture.”
Consuelos recalled driving to San Diego with his wife and co-host for the Soap Opera Digest Awards, where they stumbled upon someone selling limes.
“And she’s like, ‘Pull over, I need a lime.’ And you just ate the whole thing,” he said.
Ripa replied, “Yeah, with the skin and everything. Wild, right?”
As Consuelos added that they had “rented the car,” Ripa fired back, “And then apparently I ate the man selling the limes.”
The back-and-forth led Consuelos to lose his train of thought, asking why they were even discussing limes to begin with.
Ripa retorted, “You brought up limes. And then you brought up the part where I ate everything when I was pregnant.”
Consuelos eventually got back on track, reading the health benefits of limes, including “folate,” which he proposed Ripa may have needed during her pregnancy.
“I had an eight pound, 10-ounce baby. Did I do my job?” Ripa asked.
After Consuelos noted that “she did,” he continued listing more lime health benefits, and eventually explained that he loves a lime “on Mexican food.” Though Ripa said she prefers West Coast Mexican food, Consuelos said he “think[s] you can go to Queens for some really good Mexican food.”
“We haven’t been there, but we should go,” he added, high-fiving Ripa.
“Maybe I’ll get pregnant again, and then I can eat everything,” Ripa joked. “If that happens, call a priest.”
Consuelos quipped, “Yeah, there are miracles, and then there are miracles.”
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