Mark Consuelos dropped by TVGuide.com recently to promote Hallmark Channel's For the Love of Grace, in which he plays a widowed firefighter who just might find his own life "saved" by a beautiful author (John from Cincinnati's Chandra West). Mark, who was also a producer on the project, says, "I liked the approach [of the script]. It's a romantic story that takes a slower, more considerate approach to two people who have had loss and find each other."Mark also talks about his and wife Kelly Ripa's latest "family" endeavor, previews his guest-starring turn on Ugly Betty (at the 3:00 mark), then weighs in on how the tabloids treat him and Kelly. For the Love of Grace premieres Saturday at 9 pm/ET. P.S. I did White Strips for an entire weekend before he came by. But really, who was I kidding? — Matt MitovichRelated:• Exclusive: Ugly Betty Taps Pretty Hunky Mark Consuelos
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Some of the whitest teeth the good lord ever put into a human mouth will be sparkling on ABC's Ugly Betty. Sources tell me exclusively that Mark Consuelos, the former MISSING star who gets to call supercool Kelly Ripa his wife, will guest-star on this season's third episode. This is where it gets... interesting. Despite my best efforts, no one is budging as to who Mark is playing or who he will share scenes with. All I have been able to suss out is that he'll be filming on the "Mode" set, and that his character's arrival plays into a major story arc.Betty fans, I invite you to speculate away. Just know that thus far, Consuelos is booked for only a single appearance. Though that could change. Ugly Betty returns Sept. 25.Mark, who met his Mrs. when they played lovebirds on All My Children, next can be seen in the Hallmark Channel original For the Love of Grace, premiering Aug. 30. — Matt MitovichCrave scoop? E-mail Matt and Mickey at mega_scoop@tvguide.com.
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Does age matter? That's ostensibly the question at the heart of Age of Love, NBC's new dating series premiering tonight at 9 pm/ET. Hosted by former daytime star Mark Consuelos, the reality show takes 30-year-old Aussie tennis hunk Mark Philippoussis and sends him a-courting with women from two very separate age groups: the "kittens" (aka gals in their twenties) and the "cougars" (ages 38 to 48). TVGuide.com asked Consuelos, the man who gets to call Kelly Ripa his wife, for a look at the semicontroversial program.
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Nadine Velasquez seeks a Husband for Hire in a made-for-Oxygen telepic about a Latina businesswoman who must sign on a spouse, and quick, or forfeit her inheritance. (Tale as old as time, I know.) Mark Consuelos, the host of NBC's forthcoming Age of Love dating series, is Velasquez's insta-groom. Rounding out the cast, says Variety, are Mario Lopez, Erik Estrada (see today's CHiPs-related Q&A) and Tempestt Bledsoe.
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