Why Kelly Ripa joked she and Mark Consuelos ‘failed as parents’ — how their youngest son proved her wrong

Days aft her boy Joaquin’s Broadway debut, Kelly Ripa joked that she and Mark Consuelos thought they “failed arsenic parents” erstwhile their youngest kid first told them he wanted to be play school.

“To get immoderate occupation was, like, inconceivable to us,” Ripa said connected nan April 13 section of “Live pinch Kelly and Mark.”

“I mean, we were conscionable like, ‘You’re going to person to get a job,’” she recalled telling Joaquin, who graduated from nan University of Michigan’s School of Music, Theatre & Dance successful May 2025. “And past he books a Broadway show and it was just, like, singular for america to watch.”

Consuelos, 55, agreed that it was “pretty wild” to spot Joaquin successful action April 9 for opening nighttime of Joe Mantello’s revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman.”

Joaquin, 23, booked a domiciled successful nan show other showbiz legends Nathan Lane and Laurie Metcalf. He plays nan younger type of Christopher Abbott’s character, Biff.

During Monday’s “Live,” Ripa, 55, remarked that Consuelos has been “in this crippled a agelong time” and is yet making his Broadway debut — hinting that Joaquin hit his dada to nan punch.

Consuelos, whose show “Fallen Angels” opens April 19, took nan jab successful stride, saying it’s “not lost” connected him that it took 30-plus years to onshore his large infinitesimal connected nan Great White Way.

Ripa besides joked that Joaquin had immoderate “strict parameters” for his parents to travel astatine nan after-party for nan show that boiled down to 1 rule: “Just beryllium cool.”

“We were truthful cool! I thought we were beautiful cool,” Ripa responded, noting they near Joaquin “mostly alone” for nan night.

“I mean, I did hug him, and I was like, ‘I’m truthful proud of you. Congratulations,’” she admitted. “He was like, ‘All right. OK.’ Meanwhile, everybody other was allowed to hug him and show him really proud they were each night, and that was fine.”

Ripa celebrated Joaquin’s opening nighttime connected Broadway pinch a societal media station complete nan weekend, calling nan show “astonishing.”

The station received emotion from nan couple’s friends, including David Muir, Jennifer Garner and Andy Cohen to sanction a few.

Ripa and Consuelos, who met connected nan group of “All My Children” successful 1995 and tied nan knot nan pursuing year, are celebrating their 30th wedding day this year.

In summation to Joaquin, nan mates besides stock boy Michael, 28, and girl Lola, 24.