Kelly Ripa hosted TV show 'without pants on', but why?

Kelly Ripa hosted Live with Kelly and Mark "without pants on" during the pandemic.

The 55-year-old star co-hosts the long-running TV show with her husband, Mark Consuelos, and the loved-up couple reflected on the impact of the pandemic, explaining that it turned lots of people into "homebodies".

Kelly said on the latest episode of the show: "Some of us have been homebodies all of our lives."

"Guess what? While you were watching the show and we were shooting from a computer screen, I had a blouse on top and nothing on the bottom."

Kelly also revealed that she was eating cereal during the TV show's commercial breaks.

She said: "We would go to commercial break and I would be Grape-Nutting it, and then, back to air. It was great!"

Meanwhile, Kelly previously claimed that Mark was "insanely jealous" during the early years of their romance.

The talk-show host admitted that she initially struggled to cope with Mark's jealously.

During an appearance on the Let's Talk Off Camera podcast, Kelly explained: "My biggest complaint about you over the course of our marriage, and this is not recent because it definitely changed ... but you used to be insanely jealous and that was a hard pill to swallow ... It's very hard being married to somebody who is jealous."

Kelly recalled one particular incident that took place shortly after they tied the knot in 1996.

During a conversation with Mark, she shared: "It was our first week of marriage, because we didn't take our honeymoon until later. You were working and I went to visit you in Boston.

"We went to this Italian restaurant and the waiter was like a very cute old man, he's definitely in his 70s, if not 80s. He leaned down and he said, 'And for the principessa?'

"I thought it was so cute that this little old man called me a princess, and I looked at him and I gave him my order in a very smiley way. And he walked away and you picked a horrible fight."