Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Debut Temporary Live Location After Studio Move
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, who announced they left their Live studio in the Upper West Side of Manhattan after 37 years, recently shared a peek into their temporary space.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are making do with a makeshift studio.
After the Live hosts moved out of their Upper West Side studio—where the show had taped for 37 years with prior hosts Regis Philbin and Kathie Lee Gifford—they are filming in a temporary space until they relocate into their studio at Disney’s headquarters in Lower Manhattan.
“Live with Kelly and Mark from the Great Hall at 7 Hudson Square,” ABC7’s Eyewitness News anchor Pedro Rivera shared in a post on X April 7. “Pretty impressive set up!”
In an attached photo, the show is shown running out of a building’s cafeteria space with the filming area in front of a grand window showing off part of Manhattan’s skyline. Camera operators are dispersed throughout the space, with a makeshift control room placed behind rows of plastic chairs.
The peek into Kelly and Mark’s temporary space comes just days after the duo—who share kids Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 22, together—gave insight into their departure from the beloved studio space.
“Our kids grew up here,” Mark explained to People in an article published April 1. “They’d come visit mom here a lot—they were always backstage, even when they were babies.”
Indeed, Kelly emphasized that she was taking her kids to the studio shortly after they were born.
“You have to remember, I had my kids back in a time when maternity leave was not really a thing,” she explained. “But the good news is you could bring your kids to work with you. And because they’re very mindful of our hours here—as it is a live morning television show—I was able to be a full-time working woman and a full-time mother simultaneously.”
And the couple’s kids also grew attached to the studio and everyone who made it up.
As Kelly put it, “Like, Lola doesn’t look at some of our producers as producers; she looks at them as other moms.”
