Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are moving their talk show, Live With Kelly and Mark, into a new studio, but the married cohosts decided to bring a couple of familiar items with them.
In a TikTok video posted by People on Wednesday, April 2, Kelly and Mark, both 54, revealed what they would be taking with them to the new space.
“Sammy the dog,” Mark said while pointing to a large golden retriever statue sitting at his feet. “I’ve had my eyes on him since day one.”
“Sammy’s been here since 1997, by the way, I should point that out. This dog is the same age as our son Michael. And they both look really good for their age,” Kelly remarked.
The podcast host then said she would be bringing her Disney Legend award to the new studio.
“The reason I’m bringing this with me downtown is because that building is so like, sparkly and Disneyfied, I feel like this is on brand,” Kelly said. “I feel like it’s a good use of this.”
“Also, I feel like in my house, it feels very showy and I don’t want to show off my accolades,” she said. “Plus, I know one of my kids will pinch this. So it’s going in a safe place in a sparkling new studio.”
The show’s new studio is located in the Walt Disney Company’s new headquarters in NYC.
Kelly and Mark got emotional while saying goodbye to the old Upper West Side studio during the Tuesday, April 1, episode of their show. The couple, who share kids Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22, have sentimental ties to their old studio.
“Our kids grew up here,” Mark told People in an interview published on Tuesday. “They’d come visit mom here a lot — they were always backstage, even when they were babies.”
Kelly first landed a cohosting gig at Live in 2001. Mark joined her as an official cohost in 2023 after Ryan Seacrest revealed he was leaving the show.
“They came to work with me every day until they went to school,” Kelly reflected on the memories she made in the old studio. “They would go to All My Children with me, they would come here with me… we meant when we say they grew up in this building, in these four walls.”
“You have to remember, I had my kids back in a time when maternity leave was not really a thing; we didn’t really know how to negotiate that or navigate that,” the mom of three continued. “But the good news is you could bring your kids to work with you. And because they’re very mindful of our hours here — as it is a live morning television show — I was able to be a full-time working woman and a full-time mother simultaneously, which is a very rare thing and not something I take for granted at all.”
Mark also said that the kids are very close to the people who work at Live.
“We’re a family at Live, and growing up, those were some of the people our kids were closest to,” he said.
