Celebrity Couples Who Met on TV Sets

Long before Kelly Ripa brought her pepper pot personality to morning television, she was a popular soap opera star. It was on the set of “All My Children” that she met her husband, actor Mark Consuelos – they played supercouple Hayley and Mateo – and they quickly fell in love behind the scenes. In fact, the young lovebirds secretly eloped in 1996 – not even telling their co-stars until months later. "I was drawn to Mark because he was positively ... more 

Long before Kelly Ripa brought her pepper pot personality to morning television, she was a popular soap opera star. It was on the set of “All My Children” that she met her husband, actor Mark Consuelos – they played supercouple Hayley and Mateo – and they quickly fell in love behind the scenes. In fact, the young lovebirds secretly eloped in 1996 – not even telling their co-stars until months later. "I was drawn to Mark because he was positively an alpha male, and I didn't think I would be drawn to that,” Ripa says in the February issue of Elle. “But I just worship him. He makes me feel very safe." less