Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
Kelly Ripa and husband Marc Consuelos are returning to All My Children to help...
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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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Mark Consuelos by Jeffrey Mayer/ WireImage.com
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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Age of Love host Mark Consuelos
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.
TVGuide.com: The last we "spoke," it was you crashing my Q&A with Kelly, tryi
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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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Kelly Ripa hosts the TV Land Awards.
When it comes to the increasingly large small-screen, Kelly Ripa has done it all. Soap opera? Check. Daytime talker? Check. Prime-time comedy? Check. Saturday Night Live stop-bys? Check. So who better to oversee this Sunday's TV Land Awards (9 pm/ET) than one of this reporter's most favorite funny girls? TVGuide.com relished the chance to speak with the Live with Regis and Kelly cohost about "remaking" Laverne & Shirley, boogying with the Brady Bunch, stealing someone else's belly button and much, much more.
TVGuide.com: I'm nervous to talk to you, because I always get afraid that Q&Aing a funny person won't yield appropriately funny material. Do you ever have that same concern on Live?Kelly Ripa: I do, I do. I have what I like to refer to as "posttraumatic talk-show disorder," where I'm like, "Oh, that didn't go well. I should have done this this way and that that way...." It'
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Whoever said the reality-TV craze was over obviously hasn't talked to the suits at NBC. This summer, the Peacock will be feathering its nest with three returning reality shows and yet another new one. First up is America's Got Talent, which kicks off on May 29 with incoming ringleader Jerry Springer (sans bodyguards... I assume). Next, the fifth cycle of Last Comic Standing premieres June 13, with Bill Bellamy as host. Frosh date-a-thon Age of Love, fronted by Mark Consuelos (aka Mr. Kelly Ripa), bows June 18. And last but not least, The Biggest Loser hits the treadmills in late summer, with Days of our Lives' minx Alison Sweeney presiding over the weighting game.
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This month, fans of Missing were wowed by the difference in Lifetime's psychic police drama. Gone is the misleading former title 1-800-MISSING. (Those are actually the digits for a "clairvoyant hotline" unrelated to the series!) Kill Bill's Vivica A. Fox has replaced ER's Gloria Reuben as the leading lady cop. Sole original cast member Caterina Scorsone is now a full-fledged FBI agent whose new G-Man colleagues include All My Children's Mark Consuelos and Justin Louis (who's starred in too many failed sitcoms to mention). The show's also set in Washington, D.C. Of course, Miss Vivica is the best change of all.
"I would have been a fool to pass up this opportunity," enthuses Fox, who plays badass agent Nicole Scott. She also enjoys some creative control as coexecutive producer, and owns a stake in Missing. "I'm very, very happy at the Lifetime network." (Translation: "Ca-ching!")
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