and had a reunion on their show with a former costar. Ripa, 53, and Consuelos, also 53, who are married in real life and starred as a couple on from 1995 to 2002, had a child on the show, a baby boy named Enzo. Although the duo lost track of Enzo in real life, the girl who played him surprised Ripa and Consuelos by sitting in the audience on Monday, June 17.
“Yeah ...
I’m a girl, not a boy,” the former actress said. “I have a twin brother. At the time, he didn’t have enough hair, so I was baby Enzo for you.
” The woman, who shared that she turns 23 next month, explained that she is actually a few days younger than Ripa and Consuelos’ real-life daughter, Lola. (The couple share sons Michael, 27, Joaquin, 21 and Lola.) “I guess on the set my mom held Lola and you held me,” she told the talk show hosts, adding that she no longer acts and was her “big break.
” Ripa and Consuelos actually were introduced to each other on the set of the soap opera in 1995. Consuelos was cast as Mateo Santos, the love interest to Ripa’s character, Hayley Vaughan. “They’d been looking for this character for some time .
.. They didn’t want a dark-haired guy, they wanted a Latino actor,” Ripa explained during a in August 2018.
“So I had auditioned every Latino actor in the city. Then all of a sudden, , who was the casting director in , said, ‘I found him.’ [Judy] showed me his picture and when I saw him .
.. I saw my entire future with him flash before [my eyes].
” Af.
