Live’s Mark Consuelos snaps ‘I dare you!’ at producer in the middle of show before the EP fires back with major shade

Live! with Kelly and Mark host Mark Consuelos has challenged a morning show producer on-air.

Mark got snappy with one of Live!’s executive producers after his wife, Kelly Ripa, claimed that he loved one of their three children more than the others.

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Kelly, 52, initially brought up their children, Joaquin, Lola, and Michael, claiming that her husband had a favorite out of the bunch.

Despite Mark already explaining that he didn’t have a definite favorite child moments prior.

“Everybody knows which kid is your favorite,” Kelly told Mark.

She admitted that all of their children “talk about” who they know to be Mark’s special one behind his back.

Mark, attempting to clear the air, replied: “Lola is convinced that she’s my favorite, and I say, ‘you’re my favorite daughter.’”

Letting him on the secret, Kelly revealed who everyone believes Mark’s favorite actually is, which is Joaquin.

“He’s [Joaquin] not my favorite,” Mark denied.

He added that he loves his kids “all the same.”

YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

The former soap opera actress playfully remarked that Mark should never take a “lie detector test” after he seemed not to be answering honestly.

However, Kelly did joke that it would be fun to connect him to one “just for fun.”

Willing to take on the challenge, Mark said to the producer who sat off to the side: “I dare you…I will break the wheels off that lie detector test.”

He added that he was a personal “lie detector.”

The skeptical talk show producer shadily responded when the camera panned to him: “We used to think that, but now you’re about 50/50.”

Audience members erupted into laughter at the producer’s comment.

REPEAT OFFENSE

Though it doesn’t happen often, Mark has had run-ins with morning show producers in the past.

Last year, he was reprimanded for attempting to use bad language on Live! when the show was still Live with Kelly and Ryan, and he was a guest co-host.

As the program opened, Mark revealed to Kelly that someone had heckled him on the street the day before.

He explained: “I got some strong feedback yesterday for divulging… which I didn’t think I divulged very much…um… the ending of The White Lotus.”

Kelly looked rather shocked as Mark continued: “I got called a… can you say D-bag? Can you say that on the air?”

A producer in the background was heard replying: “Nu uh!” as Kelly blurted out: “Well you just did!”

Ignoring his wife, Mark then said: “You can’t say that, okay!”

Curious to know who had heckled her husband, Kelly asked: “Who called you that? You mean this show’s followers?”

“I’m not gonna get into it,” Mark said at the same time before he confirmed: “No, no just somebody on the street.”

He then added: “And I was like, ‘you know what, you know what’, I said, ‘everybody dies, the whole cast dies, don’t even watch the rest of the show’.”

Kelly laughed and responded: “You see it’s all fun and games until you have to come back the next day!”

“I know,” Mark said as his wife referred to Monday’s show and announced: “Remember yesterday, he was like, ‘I don’t care, if you didn’t watch it it’s not my problem’.”

“I know, that’s the good thing, I can usually say what I want and nobody cares!” Mark added.

THE NEW NORM

Both the audience at home and the audience in the ABC studio have been adjusting to Mark’s new role as Kelly’s permanent co-host.

During an episode, the Riverdale actor begged the audience to stop “booing” him after he made a comment to his wife that they didn’t seem to approve of.

Kelly began a discussion about an article she read on big butts “going out of fashion.”

Some people apparently started to reverse their Brazilian Butt Lift (BBL) procedures to go back to having smaller bums, she said.

This led Mark to ask his wife if she’d ever consider getting a BBL.

“You tell me,” she responded, turning the tables on him.

He laughed uncomfortably before she decided to answer.

“I don’t know. I just feel like there’s so many other places I’d rather put implants if I had the time and energy,” the New Jersey native said.

Mark then agreed with her before quickly realizing how that sounded and worked to clarify as the audience began booing him.

“I mean, I don’t agree that you should do that, but I agree–,” he tried to explain, but the audience was turning on him.

Mark pointed out to the crowd and told them to “stop it,” clarifying once more: “I did not say anything – I just agreed because she’s my wife.”

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