Over her dead body.
Kelly Ripa is ensuring she is dressed to the nines for her funeral. The 53-year-old host revealed that she already has a dress picked out for the long run ceremony, just in case her husband isn’t as much as the duty.
“I’m so fearful if he has to eulogize me,” Ripa, explained on the Friday, January 12, episode of “Live With Kelly and Mark.” “Initially, on the funeral, it’ll be a buffet of all my least favorite things. It’ll be deviled eggs, it’ll be chicken wings, it’ll be glasses of milk.”
Consuelos, who celebrated his twenty seventh anniversary with Ripa in 2023, was quick to chime in and joked that his longtime leading lady wouldn’t be around to have any control over the festivities.
“Hey, watch out because I’m going to must dress you as well,” he quipped. “You higher be nice now or I’m going to place you in something crazy!”
But Ripa, who knows a thing or two about fashion, was not apprehensive and informed Consuelos of something even crazier: she already had a dress label hanging in her closet and able to go.
“It’s a Dolce & Gabbana black dress,” Ripa revealed. “It’s 10 years old. It’s elegant, it’s gorgeous, it’s black, it’s lovely.”
During a previous episode in 2016, the “All My Children” alum explained to Michael Strahan, her co-host, why she had already thought of her funeral.
“The one reason I thought of what I desired to be buried in is because I once passed out … after I had my first child,” she recalled. “I passed out and my husband called 911 — and I used to be naked once I passed out. And in that point [before the paramedics arrived], he dressed me.”
Consuelos had dressed Ripa in a green leotard, his black sweatpants, and “red pumps.”
The mother of three children with whom she shares with Consuelos, Michael, 26, Lola, 22, and Joaquin, 20, was so embarrassed when she regained consciousness she attempted to hide her identity from the general public.
“As they were putting me on a stretcher, I remember pulling the sheet over my head because I didn’t want people to see me dressed this manner. They kept pulling the sheet down, meaning you’re dead,” she recalled. “And I’m like, ‘please, I might quite be dead at once’.”
“I’m serious, and after they took me into the emergency room … the nurses determined I will need to have been unconscious in some unspecified time in the future due to the way in which that I used to be dressed,” she added. “And that made me a priority [in the E.R.] and why I picked out my funeral clothes.”
Ripa and Consuelos met on the set of the long-running ABC soap opera “All My Children in 1995. They eloped and got married in Las Vegas one 12 months later.
“Live with Kelly and Mark” airs weekdays on ABC