Celebrity Couples Who Met on Soap Opera Sets: From Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos to Susan Walters and Linden Ashby
usmagazine.comFinding love on set! Soap operas including Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless and One Life to Live have inspired love stories both on and off the screen.Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos started dating shortly after playing love interests on All My Children in 1995.“I auditioned him.
They’d been looking for this character for some time … They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor. So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city and around the city and then California,” Ripa detailed during a SiriusXM interview in August 2018. “Then all of a sudden, Judy Blye Wilson, who was the casting director in All My Children, said, ‘I found him’ … [Judy] showed me his picture and … when I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes].
Like, I saw it. I [didn’t] believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.”Following one year of dating, the couple eloped in Las Vegas and later expanded their family with kids Michael, Joaquin and Lola.
Ripa and Consuelos reunited on screen several times over the years with projects such as Hope & Faith and Riverdale.“[Riverdale creator] Roberto [Aguirre-Sacasa] called me and said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a question to ask you.
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