Mark Consuelos once had a “scary” experience while riding his bike. On this morning’s episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, he and Kelly Ripa recalled the time he was hit by a car — or, rather, he hit a car during an routine exercise.
At the start of the duo’s opening chat, they discussed the best time to work out, which is apparently from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. The conversation reminded Consuelos of the time he was part of a bike team, prompting Ripa to bring up a separate biking instance that went awry.
“I remember when you were hit by a car on your bike,” she said. “That was really scary.”
However, Consuelos had a different recollection of events. According to him, he was actually the cause of the accident. Still, he didn’t want to pay for the damage he caused.
“I hit the car. They pulled out in front of me [and] pulled in the driveway. I slid and boom — and hit the car,” he explained. “I was fine. I had a nice conversation with that gentleman. He wanted me to pay for the damage to his car and I said, ‘Let’s arm wrestle.'”
Meanwhile, Ripa — who wasn’t present at the scene — looked back on the moment she knew something had gone wrong.
“I just remember getting the phone call and I immediately knew you had been hit by a car. I knew it,” she said, before adding, “You just said, ‘Hey, um.’ And I was like, ‘Where are you?’ You had a tone and a quality to your voice that you sounded jittery. And I never heard that quality in your voice before. I just knew there was an emergency.”
Fortunately, it appears as though Consuelos’ biking days are behind him. While he was once part of a team that regularly trained on a six-mile loop in Central Park, he admitted that he didn’t actually like doing it.
“We’d train in the fall and even into the winter,” he said. “My water bottles I’d put on the front of the bike — by the time I would get home, they were frozen because it was so cold. And that was insane. I did not enjoy that at all.”
When Ripa pointed out that he “devoted a great deal of life” to the team for someone who “didn’t enjoy it,” Consuelos reminded her, “Well, you know I’m very competitive Kelly Ripa Consuelos. Being on a bike — that’s one of the few things I could probably still do.”
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