Who wants to work on their birthday? Nobody, that’s who. Kelly Ripa had the pleasure of celebrating her 54th birthday on Wednesday Lives with Kelly and Markwhere her husband and co-host Mark Consuelos not only gave her kale in honor of National Kale Day, but also offered “some questions you should ask yourself on your birthday.”
Ripa lamented, “Oh my god, do I have to ask myself on my birthday?”
Consuelos asked Ripa what she is “looking forward to next year” and urged her to “consider what [she] lack[s] to do or experience [in] next year,” to which Ripa teased, “I hope at some point my birthday falls on a weekend so we don’t have to do this on live television.”
“I feel like we’ve been on a run where my birthday has really been up in the air,” she added.
After Consuelos told Ripa to “take a moment to celebrate and be thankful for the highlights and successes of the past year,” she acknowledged that “a lot has happened” and that they “have been very lucky.”
Consuelos asked, “Where are you now?”
Ripa replied: “I’m right here. Same as I was last year.”
The two cracked up when Consuelos told Ripa to “think about where you are in your life, and if you’re where you thought you’d be.”
“What is the meaning of life?” he asked, as Ripa exclaimed: “Oh my God! Why are you making me work on my birthday?”
Consuelos joked to someone off camera, “I told you this would trigger.”
He went on to ask Ripa what her “goals in life” are, before finally crumpling up his paper and concluding that they “should break up.” Ripa joked that they would continue this discussion over dinner tonight, teasing that it would be “very fun dinner conversation.”
“Kelly, what are your goals? To celebrate my birthday not in front of everyone,” she joked.
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