Love on– and off– display. Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, Vincent Van Patten and Eileen Davidson and even more star pairs dropped in love on the collection of daytime drama.
“I auditioned him,” Ripa remembered throughout a SiriusXM meeting in August 2018 regarding satisfying her now-husband. “They’d been looking for this character for some time … They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor. So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city and around the city and then California. Then all of a sudden, Judy Blye Wilson, who was the casting director in All My Children, said, ‘I found him’ … [Judy] showed me his picture and … when I saw him, the photograph of him, I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes]. Like, I saw it. I [didn’t] believe in any of that and now I do because of that moment.”
Ripa and Consuelos played onscreen pair Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos on All My Children for numerous years prior to leaving in 2001. The Riverdale celebrity formerly explained their link as split second throughout a joint meeting with the Live With Kelly and Ryan cohost in 1996.
“Before we ever had a scene together. We’ve been spending 12 hours a day together for the past year and a half,” Consuelos informed Soap Opera Digest at the time.

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Ripa included, “We just understood each other really well. If two people were ever supposed to be together, I’d say it was us.”
The pair, who bolted in Las Vegas in May 1996, share 3 youngsters: Michael, Lola and Joaquin.
Van Patten and Davidson’s romance, at the same time, seems even more like a daytime soap plot. When the retired tennis professional satisfied the starlet on the collection of The Young and the Restless in 2000, they were both wed to other individuals. Their beginning tale showed up throughout period 6 of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.
“I knew he was married and I was married and I was totally respectful of that … but whatever. So, he and I, we had a friendship for a long time,” Davidson stated in a January 2016 episode of the Bravo program. “We just kind of fell in love. I told my husband at the time, ‘We have a situation here. I am having feelings for somebody’ … I separated from my husband. I was like, ‘This isn’t good. We’ve got to separate.’”
Van Patten and Davidson joined in 2003.
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