Lola Consuelos Says She and Her Brothers Are ‘So Embarrassed’ by the Name Their Parents Gave Their Family Group Chat
The singer-songwriter is the daughter of Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos
During the latest episode of Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa, the singer-songwriter, 24, chatted with the Live with Kelly and Mark host, 54, about their tight-knit family of five. The mother-daughter pair revealed the name of their family group chat called “Fam Innit,” with Lola adding that she and her brothers, Joaquin, 22, and Michael, 28, are “embarrassed” by the name.
“We’re so embarrassed by that name that mom and dad came up with that Michael, Joaquin and I have a group chat called ‘Family, Isn’t It?’ ” she shared.
Ripa explained that she and Consuelos, also 54, were “really into Top Boy, the TV show, and we just got into saying ‘Fam Innit.’ “
Lola admitted that she sometimes puts her phone on do not disturb and wakes up to random YouTube videos or photos of her and her siblings when they were kids. When asked what the last message in the group chat was, Ripa revealed that it was a fun fact from her son, Michael.
“I’m reading it right now. I just pulled it up. Ready?” she asked, before continuing to read the message. “It’s from Michael Consuelos. It says, ‘You guys wanna hear a fun fact I learned today? The theme song of The White Lotus uses a famous music sequence used in a lot of shows and movies to forewarn impending disaster or death.”
The mom of three then said that nobody responded or left the group chat after that message.
Consuelos and Ripa married in May 1996, one year after meeting on the soap opera All My Children, and they have been together ever since. The last few decades have been busy ones for the couple as they spent them raising their three now-adult children. For PEOPLE’s inaugural Family Issue in 2020, Ripa and the Riverdale actor opened up about their parenting skills.
“As you get older and you learn more, that youngest kid hopefully benefits from a little bit more wisdom … and hopefully fewer nerves,” Ripa said. “I think I had definitive ideas about raising girls versus raising boys, even though I don’t really believe in gender stereotyping. My sons are just as sensitive as my daughter, and my daughter is as strong as my sons.”
On the Thursday, Feb. 28 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, Ripa and Consuelos spoke with late-night host Jimmy Kimmel, 57, opening up about life with their children out of the house, with Consuelos revealing the one thing he does as an empty nester.
“[Their rooms are] pretty much precisely how they left them, but I’ve been going around and using their bathrooms,” he admitted to Kimmel. When the host asked why he was using his kids’ bathrooms, he responded, “Because we paid for the house and I’ve never sat there, so I wanted to sit there.”
After his explanation, Ripa jokingly added, “And, I, for one, am thankful.”
