"First of all, it's funny, I forget that they look alike until I see photos of them like that," she said of her son and his father.
Kelly Ripa is excited that her son Michael Consuelos has been featured in PEOPLE's 2022 Sexiest Man Alive issue in a portfolio of famous sons. On the October 9 episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan, Ripa noticed the picture of her son while her co-host Ryan Seacrest was flipping through the magazine. "Are you kidding me?" she said, before grabbing the magazine and putting on her glasses to read the page. "You would think he would tell us so we would pick up a couple of copies for the grandparents," the host remarked.
The page featured a picture of Michael alongside a picture of his father, Mark Consuelos, from when he was younger. "First of all, it's funny, I forget that they look alike until I see photos of them like that," Ripa admitted.
"'Michael respects his father's work ethic,'" she read from the page before joking: "Yeah, he worked one day last week." Continuing to examine the feature about her son, Ripa read: "I admire my dad's organization and timeliness. Growing up we were always really early, and if I'm not early someplace, I kind of freak out." Corroborating her son's remark, the 52-year-old said: "That's true, Mark has made us all crazy about time. If we're not two hours early, we're late."
She went on to say that she always considered her son "just a handsome lovely fellow. Conscious, hard-working, diligent, respectful." However, making a cringed face, she added: "I had no idea you were considered 'sexy'... I always found his father to be sexy."
Speaking about his father in an interview with PEOPLE, Michael jokingly said that Consuelos always wants him and his brother Joaquin "to look like him." The 25-year-old revealed that whenever he gets new glasses, his father texts him, "'Where did you get those glasses?'"
"And I'm like, 'Oh no, can you at least pick a different color?' My dad, my brother, and I will be wearing the same black pants and gray shirt and I'm like, I try to look a little different than that. I like to stand out a little bit," he said. However, the Riverdale star also loves to raid his father's closet even though Consuelos always notices it. "He's like, 'Hey, where's this?' And I'm like, 'Oh, you weren't home. You were in Vancouver for a while, so I figured...' He's like, 'Don't figure, ask,'" Michael shared.
The young actor added that he "focuses on comfort" when it comes to clothes but he also enjoys a formal fit. "I'm a big suit guy," he said. "Whenever I have any chance to dress up, wear a tie and suit, I jump at it. Looking good and being comfortable doing it, that's my thing."
References:
https://people.com/parents/kelly-ripa-reaction-son-michael-people-sexiest-man-alive/
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