Watch Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos reunite with ‘All My Children’ actor who played their baby
This was not on our 2024 bingo card.
Kelly Ripa and husband Mark Consuelos reunited with the actor who played their baby, Lorenzo, on “All My Children” during Monday’s episode of “Live with Kelly and Mark.”
“I saw an interesting sign over here,” Consuelos, 53, pointed out to his co-host and wife.
“We have talked about this in the past,” Ripa, 53, told the live audience during the show. “Mark and I had a baby on ‘All My Children,’ baby Enzo. And we’ve often wondered, ‘Whatever happened to baby Enzo? Where is baby Enzo?’ And baby Enzo is in our audience today.”
The couple first met in the 1990s while starring in the long-running soap opera series. Their characters, Hayley Vaughan Santos and Mateo Santos, respectively, welcomed a son, Lorenzo, on an episode that aired in August 2001.
The camera panned to Olivia Daddona with a photo of Ripa from the show holding a baby as the audience cheered in excitement.
“Yeah, I’m a girl, not the boy,” Daddona said. “I have a twin brother. At the time, he didn’t have enough hair, so I was a baby Enzo for you.”
“Hollywood is a cruel place,” Ripa joked back.
The young woman joked that her brother was a “little jealous” of her claim to fame.
Ripa told Daddona that it was good to see her, to which the woman responded, “I’m happy to be here, it’s good to reunite.”
Wondering what Doddana has been up to over the years, Ripa asked if she was still acting.
“No. I mean this is my big break now, I guess,” she joked. “I’m still in Long Island. I work in sports now.”
During the show, Daddona, who will be 23 next month, shared that she is three days younger than Ripa and Consuelos’ daughter, Lola. She recalled that her mother would hold Lola off camera while Ripa held Daddona on screen.
“Look at the picture of me holding you,” Ripa said reminiscing on the flashback photo.
Ripa and Conseulos married in May 1996, just one year after acting in the soap opera. They share three children: Michael, 27, Lola, 23, and Joaquin, 21. After having their second child, both actors decided to leave the show in 2002.
In April 2023, Consuelos joined Ripa in co-hosting the ABC daytime show following Ryan Seacrest’s departure.
