People reported on April 1, 2025, that Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos will no longer film their daytime talk show at its longtime New York City studio.
Mark Consuelos Opened Up About Emotional Final Episode
Ripa and her cohost, who is also her husband, opened up about how they felt after filming at Lincoln Square for the last time, and what they will miss most about the studio that housed the set of Ripa’s talk show for almost 25 years.
“Our kids grew up here,” People says Consuelos reminisced. “They’d come visit mom here a lot,” he added. He said the kids were always backstage in the studio, “even when they were babies.” Their time spent in the studio fostered several relationships that Ripa says will be missed.
“Yeah, my kids have full text chains with some of the people here. Like, Lola doesn’t look at some of the producers as producers; she looks at them as other moms,” Ripa said about her 23-year-old daughter, per the report.
She added that some of her “closest friends” work in the building. “We’re a family,” she said of her “LIVE” coworkers.
Ripa also touched on the value of having a nurturing home away from home for her children to grow up in during an era when she says “maternity leave was not really a thing.”
“But the good news is that you could bring your kids to work with you,” said the star, expressing her gratitude at having the ability to be “a full-time working woman and a full-time mother simultaneously.”
The Show Will Go On
Fans who might be fearing for the show’s future can relax, because the show is not being cancelled, but merely relocated. “LIVE With Kelly and Mark” will continue to be filmed in New York City. Its new location is located at 7 Hudson Square.
The facility is already the home of several ABC shows, with “LIVE With Kelly and Mark” being one of the last to make the move.
The show’s new home, called the Robert A. Iger Building after Disney’s CEO of more than 15 years, is already being occupied by “The View.”
A December 2024 Walt Disney Company press release says the building’s name was chosen to honor “Iger’s many accomplishments for Disney and its employees as he commemorates his 50th anniversary with the company.”
The report calls the cutting edge facility “a testament to Disney’s commitment to NYC, its economy, and its people.”
