Mark Consuelos saw Kelly Ripa in rare form this weekend.
On Live with Kelly and Mark, Consuelos shared that he took Ripa to Italy for her to see her first Campobasso Wolves game. Ripa, who is an investor in the Italian football club alongside Conuselos, teased that she is a “very silent partner.”
“And in Italy, I become even more silent because I don’t speak Italian,” she added. “So I am the most silent version of myself that I’ve ever been.”
Consuelos quipped, “I kind of liked it. It was really nice.”
Ripa replied, “Your fantasy version of me. Somebody who has no idea what’s going on.”
Eventually Consuelos delved further into their “fast and furious trip,” and acknowledged how as a speaker of Italian, he was tasked with ordering for Ripa and other English speakers with them while dining out in in Italy. This involved him making decisions, even after the waiter “rattled off 50 things.”
“Mark is the worst translator,” she claimed. “For the record. He is the only one of us that speaks Italian, and therefore, we rely on him to tell us things. So he, in turn, rewards us by not telling us a thing.”
Ripa recalled one instance where she spotted what she wanted “immediately” upon entering the restaurant and pointed to it, telling Consuelos, “I just want what that man has.”
“I already know how this is going to go, so I pointed to what I wanted,” she continued. “And so Mark took that information, and then ordered me something entirely different.”
Consuelos assured Ripa that she “got what [she] wanted,” though Ripa teased, “After I started crying at the table.”
While Consuelos noted that they “ate a lot,” Ripa said she actually ended up losing weight.
“It is really true. You can eat all the pasta you want in Italy and not gain a pound,” Ripa said. “And I wound up actually losing weight in Italy because we were so busy, and because Mark kept ordering me the wrong thing.”
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