Kelly Ripa is taken aback. The 52-year-old TV personality and mother of three reacted to the news that her 25-year-old son, Michael Consuelos, was featured in the “Gen Next” section of People magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive edition.
Ripa’s co-host, Ryan Seacrest, took out the magazine during Wednesday’s broadcast of Live With Kelly and Ryan, displaying Michael’s headshot beside a flashback photo of his lookalike father, Mark Consuelos.
“Are you kidding me?!” Ripa asked, grabbing the magazine. “Give me this.”
Ripa pulled out a pair of glasses, and studied the magazine, saying, “You’d think he would tell us so we could pick up a couple of copies for the grandparents.”
Ripa also mocked her son’s interview, reading, “‘Michael respects his father’s work ethic.’ Yeah, he worked one day last week.”
The pleased mother also mentioned how much her kid and hubby resemble each other.
“It’s funny, I forget that they look alike until I see photos of them like that. It’s crazy, right?” she said.
Ripa then had a message for her son. “I always considered you just a handsome, lovely fellow, conscientious, hard-working, diligent, respectful,” she said. “I had no idea that you were considered sexy. I always found his father to be sexy.”
Michael gushed about his famous parents in a video receiving the award.
“My parents went to great efforts to kind of raise me as ‘normal’ as possible. I didn’t even know things were really different, except I grew up with them on a soap opera,” he shared of the former Days of Our Lives co-stars.
Ripa subsequently captioned an Instagram Story shot of her son’s magazine piece, “Chip off the ol’ block.”