According to Kelly Ripa, Live With Kelly and Mark‘s workplace culture around taking sick days was different in the days before Mark Consuelos became her cohost.
“Anybody here, have you been sick? Did you get the flu? Anybody? Anybody here under the weather?” Ripa asked the show’s audience on Thursday, January 15. To her surprise, nobody in the crowd had recently been sick, but Consuelos said he’s “been thinking about it.”
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