Mark Consuelos' Net Worth Reveals if He Out-Earns Wife Kelly Ripa
When power couple means two millionaires.
Kelly Ripa is one of the most recognizable personalities in the American media landscape, and her husband, actor Mark Consuelos, is no less famous. This year, it was revealed that Ripa's co-anchor on Live Ryan Seacrest was leaving the syndicated show after six years, and his place was taken by Kelly's husband, Mark.
Seeing the media power together on screen, fans have been wondering: how much do the spouses earn, and is Mark's salary larger than his wife's?
Consuelos is about six months younger than Ripa, but his TV career actually began much later than hers. The couple met in 1995, on the set of the ABC's All My Children. Kelly had been starring in the show for about five years already, but this was the first acting gig for her husband-to-be.
Strangely enough, Consuelos was still paid more, according to Ripa, even though her time on the show was a lot longer.
Since then, Kelly Ripa has managed to make her way up to the highest echelons of TV stardom. Most notably, she became Regis Philbin's co-host on the morning talk show Live in 2001 and has held this position since then.
The star also regularly appears in various shows and movies, but it's definitely her role as a host that brought her most popularity as well as incredible fortune. According to Celebrity Net Worth, Kelly Ripa's fortune is estimated at a phenomenal $120 million!
What about her husband? Throughout the 2000s and 2010s, Consuelos appeared in episodic or recurring roles in various TV series and feature films, and the actor managed to reclaim his popularity through his role in Riverdale as one of the show's antagonists, Hiram Lodge, a rich Riverdale resident who, despite his crimes, did everything he could to protect his family.
Now that Mark Consuelos has become a regular host on Live, his popularity is sure to grow further, leading to an increase in his earnings. At the moment, the star's net worth is said to be around $40 million — not as huge as his wife's, but the figure is still impressive.
It's also admirable that Ripa and Consuelos have managed to stay together as a couple for almost 30 years! Notably, Mark's wife has been out-earning him for pretty much all their life together, but this doesn't seem to worry him one bit.