Kelly Ripa battles awkward on-air moment with famous guest: ‘It doesn’t make any sense’

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have been compelled to pivot throughout their morning present on Monday following a tense and awkward moment with their visitor, comic and actor Howie Mandel.

The 70-year-old, who celebrated his milestone birthday in November, appeared to take offense when the TV hosts talked about his age on the present. “It doesn’t make any sense,” Kelly started, earlier than Howie chimed in: “What do you mean it doesn’t make any sense? That I look great?”

“No. no. no. I don’t like that because that’s a caveat. When you tell someone you’re 70, and they say you look great…” he continued.

“We’re not saying you look great for 70,” Kelly clarified. “We’re saying you look great, and I don’t believe you’re 70.”

“No. no. It’s like saying you’re smart for a stupid person,” Howie added. “Oh, you seem smart, you seem smart, you see, no, I don’t look good.” Fortunately, the tense moment handed, and Howie defined simply how he appeared so good at 70.

“Your friend, Jerry O’Connell, got me into the most ridiculous workout I’ve ever done in my life,” I shared. “I swim but have these cables which I tie onto my ankles, and then I attach them to whatever is at the side of the pool.”

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“Then he gave me these frying pan paddles, and I swam for an hour and went nowhere,” he stated, including he will get “so lost in it.” Howie has all the time been lively and maintained a nutritious diet, much more so since he found he had excessive ldl cholesterol. “I eat healthy, just by virtue of what I like. I love vegetables. I love fruits,” he instructed GQ.

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“My one weakness is chocolate. But I do eat healthy, I am active, I move a lot. My life pre-diagnosis and post-diagnosis is kind of exactly the same. I’m living the same life, taking the prescribed medication, and getting checked every time I go for a checkup.”

He added that operating was his favourite type of train, and one thing he had been doing since childhood. “I never wanted to walk anywhere. There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t run,” the father of three shared.

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“I’ve run up to 15 miles in a day, sometimes it’s two or three miles. It’s like an urge – I’m compelled to run. I don’t even listen to music or watch TV. It releases endorphins. That’s my meditation, my distraction.”

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Meanwhile, Kelly and Mark aren’t any strangers to awkward conversations on the showand the married couple even convey their very own relationship flus to the digital camera. “When I’m really afraid to talk about something, I wait for the show,” the Riverdale actor instructed Entertainment Tonight. “That way, I have safety in numbers. I’m in a safe space.”

“Why discuss it privately when I can bring it up in front of the audience?” Kelly quipped. The duo met on the set of All My Children in 1995, married a 12 months later, and have welcomed three kids collectively.