Kelly Ripa reveals Wendy Williams outed her and Mark Consuelos’ relationship

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Kelly Ripa‘s secret wedding to Mark Consuelos in 1996 was exposed by none other than Wendy Williams.The “All My Children” stars managed to keep their relationship a secret from their co-stars for three months before the news finally broke. “Our secret wedding, discovered by none other than Wendy Williams.

True facts, I’m not kidding,” Ripa, 53, said during “Live with Kelly and Mark” Thursday. The morning talk show host made the admission shortly after Consuelos, 52, said they would be “returning to the scene of the crime” by filming several episodes of their show in Las Vegas.“We’d eloped.

It’d been a few months at that point, we’d been married for three months, nobody at [‘All My Children’] knew we were even dating, much less married to each other,” Ripa explained.Williams, who was a gossip reporter at the time, was tipped off by a courthouse witness.“We’re brushing our teeth and we’ve got Wendy Williams’ radio show on.

We’re listening, and she’s like, ‘I’ve got celebrity dish,’ ” Ripa said. “The celebrities, I guess they had a broad use of the term back then, was the fact that two soap stars from ‘All My Children,’ Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos … eloped in Las Vegas.“There was this eyewitness that worked in the Clark County courthouse that said we eloped, and the news broke, and we had to tell everybody we were married,” Ripa concluded.