Nonetheless, Ripa argued that “doesn’t mean anything” with respect to her parents, as she claimed they are “not show business people.” Consuelos then realized that he had finally met Ripa’s mother and father that spring, and that they got married “soon after that.” “You still should have come to Italy,” he doubled down.

Over the past four decades, since its 1983 inception, the famed daytime talk show has been taped in its Upper West Side home, seeing the rise and eventual departure of hosts like the late Regis Philbin, Kathie Lee Gifford, Michael Strahan and Ryan Seacrest.