Kelly Ripa Is Uncomfortable Doing This Everyday Task On ‘Live’: “Feels Like People Are Watching You Go To The Bathroom”

Apparently, eating on TV is not all it’s cracked up (or cooked up) to be. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos tackled the topic on this morning’s Live with Kelly and Mark — which was once again previously recorded — as they kicked off the show by celebrating International Pineapple Day.

After Consuelos rattled off some fun facts about pineapple, and as they enjoyed pineapple slices and pineapple juice in front of the camera and their studio audience, Ripa said, “The audience doesn’t want to watch us eat.”

“It’s really, you know — I always say this. Like, you think it’s no big deal to eat on TV, but then try to do it,” she continued. “It’s really weird, like, it feels like people are watching you go to the bathroom. It’s that same —”

Consuelos chimed in with his perspective, noting that he has “no issues with it.”

“If you watch the cooking segments here, I’m just eating and eating and eating,” he teased. “Shamelessly.”

Ripa replied, “No, as am I, but it looks weird. It’s not, like, it’s not —”

Consuelos offered up, “Elegant?”

Ripa agreed, arguing that “it’s not as elegant as you think.”

“It’s weird,” she reiterated. “Everybody looks weird when they eat on TV. If you watch commercials, if you watch food commercials, those are styled by food stylists. And even then, you see people take the bite, but you never really see chewing happen. It’s like a bite, cut away! Cut away.”

Consuelos added, “They spit into the spit bucket.”

Ripa replied, “The spit bucket, right. There’s a spit bucket,” before asking the audience, “Did you know that?”

Consuelos said, “Now you do.”

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