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Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos Reveal Wendy Williams Exposed Their Secret Relationship: ‘We Had to Tell Everybody’

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos didn’t tell their ‘All My Children’ co-stars about their secret 1996 wedding until Wendy Williams outed it on the radio.

Kelly, 53, recalled that they went to the Clark County courthouse in Vegas to get a marriage license, but an eyewitness saw them and leaked the news to Wendy, 59. The mom-of-three, who met Mark in 1995 while they were soap opera co-stars, said they wanted to keep their romance a secret “because we worked together and we didn’t want it to be perceived that somehow we couldn’t work together.” Kelly added that trying to hide their marriage “seemed like a good idea” at the time, while Mark acknowledged it was a “harebrained idea.” In an interview with PEOPLE, the couple confirmed they have plans to visit the chapel where they tied the knot when they do their show in Las Vegas.

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