Kelly Ripa was missing from her usual co-hosting gig on “Live with Kelly and Mark” on Wednesday because she lost her voice.
“Yesterday you could tell she was losing her voice a little bit – it’s gone, it’s lost,” Ripa’s husband and co-anchor, Mark Consuelos, explained at the top of the show.
Longtime “Live” announcer Déjà Vu filled in for Ripa and asked if she “was OK?”
“Yeah, she’s gonna feel better, she’s just resting a little bit,” Consuelos assured her and fans while adding, “I’m sure she’ll feel better soon.”
Later on in the show, Consuelos mentioned that he “was quarantining” away from Ripa, so he “didn’t get the laryngitis.”
Ripa and Consuelos have been co-hosting the show since April after longtime host Ryan Seacrest left the show.
Ripa has previously taken the occasional sick day, and she was even absent for three episodes within two weeks over the summer.
A source told Page Six at the time that she was using some of her “scheduled days off” which is “totally normal during the summer.”
At one point, the couple’s close friend Anderson Cooper filled in for Ripa.