The legendary talk show host Kelly Ripa will be celebrating her 25 year wedding anniversary to Mark Consuelos later this year, which is why it came as a surprise to fans when she joked about when she feels “close to infidelity” in a new interview.

While appearing on “The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon” on Wednesday night, Ripa joked about how intimate video chatting can be from the bedroom she shares with Consuelos.

“I love being with you even if it’s from a strange setup in my bedroom,” Ripa told Fallon at the start of the interview. “I feel like this is as close to infidelity as I will ever be.”

Ripa went on to talk about how disappointing it has been that 2021 has been a lot like 2020 so far, as we are still dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.

“I think I thought 2021 would be like the sequence in The Wizard of Oz where they’re in black and white and then the house lands and she opens the door and everything’s in color. I think I thought 2021 would happen and then, like, it’s over, we can all come outside, guys, and go play in the park,” Ripa said. “[But] it’s pretty much the same.”

Ripa later talked about how shocked she is that this year will be her 20th anniversary hosting her talk show.

“I keep thinking it’s only been three years. I don’t understand the big deal,” Ripa said with a laugh. “I actually think the fact that I did not have any anticipation about getting that job at all actually worked greatly to my advantage, because I wasn’t going after it. I was asked to fill in for a a fill-in host at the last minute, so it took any stakes or any nervousness that I probably would have had away.”

Though she was not nervous to take the job, she had a surprisingly personal reason for nearly turning it down.

“My only concern was that I was very early pregnant with our daughter, Lola, and nobody knew. Nobody knew. Mark and I knew and nobody else knew,” said Ripa. “They said, ‘There’s going to be a psychic and she’s going to give you a reading if you don’t mind because we’re doing psychic week.’ I said to Mark, ‘I’ve got to cancel, I can’t do this.’ He goes, ‘Oh, what, you think a psychic is going to figure out you’re pregnant?'”

“I go, ‘Well, what if she does? Isn’t that what psychics do?'” Ripa continued. “She figured out I was pregnant in three seconds.”

Ripa and Consuelos now have three children: Michael, 23, Lola, 19, and Joaquin, 17. Check out her full interview with Fallon below.

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