By Alex Vena
Published Nov. 6, 2024, 10:52 a.m. ET
Kelly Ripa remains unbothered by Mark Consuelos‘ kissing scenes.
This uncover arrived erstwhile Maria Menounos joined nan co-host mates connected this morning’s Live pinch Kelly and Mark, wherever she dished connected her caller Lifetime Christmas movie Christmas astatine Plumhill Manor.
Consuelos chimed in, “I’m being asked to inquire this question. I don’t really want to inquire it, but I’m going to inquire it. Are location a batch of kissing scenes successful this movie?”
Menounos, who has antecedently starred successful Lifetime’s The Holiday Fix-Up and The Holiday Dating Guide, noted that “usually” location is only 1 kissing segment successful these films, but fans apparently “want much romance.”
“So they want 3 this time, and I go, ‘No, no, no, no, no, we’re not doing that,'” she explained.
Ripa asked Menounos if she “negotiate[s],” to which she insisted that she “tried.”
“I was reteaming pinch my head Brian Herzlinger from nan past 2 Christmas movies I did, and I go, ‘Brian, we’re not doing three. I can’t do three. My dad’s going to termination me.'”
After confirming that her begetter “gets truthful mad,” Menounos teased that now she “mess[es] pinch him.”
“I’m like, ‘Dad, we’re making crazy activity scenes successful this movie. It’s going to beryllium wild!'” she added. “So erstwhile nan kissing worldly happens, it’s for illustration nothing. And past I person my hubby connected nan different hand. He’s like, ‘Be professional!'”
Consuelos initially misconstrued Menounos’ remark, asking if her hubby was telling her begetter to beryllium professional.
Menounos clarified, “No, to me. When I person to, like, make retired pinch people.’
She yet asked Consuelos if he ever tells Ripa nan same, which he denied.
“Whenever I person each nan kissing scenes, she says, ‘Go for it!'” he shared.
Ripa agreed, “I’m not that person. It doesn’t fuss me.”
After Menounos noted that she “do[es]n’t for illustration it,” Ripa added, “I deliberation Mark’s a really bully kisser, but I deliberation it looks good. Does that make sense? To me, like, watching it from an extracurricular observer…”
Consuelos joked, “So I conscionable kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss.”
Menounos teased, “Mark, bask it. It’s your pass.”
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