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Kelly Ripa was absent from Monday’s Live! With Kelly and Mark morning talk show after undergoing gum graft surgery and is now recovering at home, Mark Consuelos, her co-host and husband, revealed.
“Kelly sends her love. Kelly had a little bit, well, not a little, she had gum graft surgery,” Consuelos said at the top of the popular morning show.
The medical procedure involves transferring tissue from a patient’s palate to the area where their gums have receded. Consuelos said Ripa’s doctor recommended the dental surgery five years ago, and she joked at the time, “I didn’t think I’d still be on the air in five years!”
Kevin Jonas from the Jonas Brothers stepped in to replace Ripa on Monday and will return on Tuesday to the co-hosting table. Live! With Kelly and Mark, which features interviews with celebrity guests, is syndicated by Disney Entertainment and produced by WABC in New York.
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to representatives for Ripa at Live! With Kelly and Mark for an update on her condition as she continues on the mend, and a return date.
Ripa, ever the conversationalist as an actress and TV personality for over three decades, also hosts the podcast Let’s Talk Off Camera with Kelly Ripa. She has won eight daytime Emmys over her career. With Consuelos, Ripa earned the 2024 Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding daytime talk series hosts and the 2025 Daytime Emmy Award for outstanding daytime talk series.
Ripa and Consuelos also run a New York-based production company, Milojo Productions.
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