Today on Live with Kelly and… Carson Kressley!
Mark Consuelos was absent from Thursday’s Live with Kelly and Mark, where Kelly Ripa led the show alongside Kressley. The two welcomed Moulin Rouge star Taye Diggs and The Doobie Brothers. Today’s episode marked the third day in a row of guest hosts following Jerry O’Connell on Tuesday (July 29) and World News Tonight anchor David Muir on Wednesday (July 30).
As for where Consuelos has been this week, Ripa told Live on Tuesday that her husband is “working on a show out in LA.”
This isn’t Kressley’s first time at the co-host desk with Ripa. In fact, he and Ripa recalled visiting Prince Edward Island on a remote for Live, prompting Ripa to point out how Kressley has actually been on “a lot of” the show’s remotes.
Kressley added, “I have, we were on a cruise ship once in Boston. We went to, like, Bermuda or something. I mean, this is 20 years of traveling. And then Prince Edward Island, and then Hawaii.”
The two remembered swimming with turtles and going on a catamaran while at Hawaii’s Aulani Resort, or as Kressley teased, “We did everything The Brady Bunch did, except we didn’t find that tiki.”
Ripa quipped, “Right, we weren’t cursed.”
Kressley agreed, “It was for the best. Because nothing but bad things happened after that.”
Of course, Ripa and Kressley were referring to the family sitcom’s Season 4 episode, “The Tiki Cave,” where Bobby (Mike Lookinland) finds a tiki idol, and although he is warned of its bad luck, he decides to hold onto it.
Ripa teased that The Brady is a show that influenced her outlook on travel as a child.
“My whole frame of reference for travel as a kid,” she explained, “I don’t know if you were like me. We were not a traveling family. So my entire frame of reference was The Brady Bunch when they traveled. Or Fantasy Island. Or The Love Boat. That was how we traveled.”
Kressley teased of The Love Boat, “That’s how I discovered Puerto Vallarta. Was through The Love Boat.”
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