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Fathers and sons bond in all sorts of different ways, but Kelly Ripa is still shocked when she remembers a “playdate” her husband, Mark Consuelos, shared with his son at a Hooters wing joint.
The story emerged on Tuesday, Sept. 10, when Consuelos, 53, announced that if his preferred team, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, beat his wife’s beloved Philadelphia Eagles, they would continue last year’s tradition of the loser eating a delicacy from the winner’s home state. .
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Last time it was Cubano sandwiches, but this year Riverdale the star felt the token meal should come from the Florida-born airline chain notorious for its scantily clad waitresses. Ripa, also 53, couldn’t contain herself as she gushed, “I remember when you took our son to Hooters!”
Trying to save his paternal reputation, Consuelos shook his head as the crowd laughed. But Ripa didn’t want to let her husband, with whom she shares sons Michael, 27, Joaquin, 21, and daughter Lola, 23, change the subject. She explained that their son “had a playdate” and that “the two dads took the sons to Hooters!”
Consuelos insisted that the outing was not his idea. “To be fair, we went on a daddy-kids play date, and sometimes when your kid is friends with another kid, you have to hang out with the dad.” He went on to say that the other dad was not his “go-to hangout.” His opinion of the other parent was “solidified” when the other dad suggested he drive them all out to get chicken wings, and then “we pulled into Hooters,” he laughed.
Ripa allowed her husband to “blame the other dad,” but explained how shocked she was when the Consuelos and their son (they did not specify if this was Michael or Joaquin) came home smelling of cigarettes. “I thought, ‘You guys were in the smoking section?’ They were like, “The whole place was the smoking section,” Ripa laughed.