Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos have made his early arrival habits no secret to Live with Kelly and Mark viewers, and now his tendencies have a name.
While Ripa acknowledged on Monday’s episode that she and the Live staff may experience what is called “hurry sickness” as “critters of live TV,” she insisted that this is “by nature of [their] jobs,” and that her husband and co-host has the condition because “it is who he is.”
“If you’re always in a rush, you have something called ‘hurry sickness.’ Hurry sickness is described as an excessive sense of time urgency,” she explained. “It’s not technically a medical condition. Not yet. But if I know the medical community, they’ll come up with a pharmaceutical drug for it soon.”
As Ripa continued detailing the symptoms of the “wellbeing phenomenon,” she teased that it is “detrimental to your health and irritates your wife.”
Consuelos chimed in, “Do you know who wrote that? Someone who doesn’t care about time. If you’re on time, you’re 10 minutes late.”
Ripa claimed that she and Consuelos are never just “10 minutes early,” but rather they are “45 minutes early” or even “an hour early.”
Consuelos interjected, “What’s the exaggeration sickness? Is there an exaggeration sickness?”
Though Live EP Michael Gelman teased that he would “find an article” for Consuelos on the matter, Ripa wanted back-up, citing the example of Albert Bianchini.
“I just want Albert here because Albert traveled with Mark traveled to Italy and said to me, ‘I will never travel with that man again,’” she recalled. “Because Mark got them to the airport about six and a half hours ahead of schedule. Not exaggerating.”
Consuelos asserted “that’s crazy,” arguing that he “would never” go six and a half hours early.
“I would go about five and a half hours [early],” he quipped.
Live with Kelly and Mark airs on weekdays. Check out their website for your local listings.
The post Mark Consuelos Fires Back At Kelly Ripa After She Calls Him Out For Having “Hurry Sickness”: “Is There An Exaggeration Sickness?” appeared first on Decider.
