Wednesday 28 September 2022 07:02 PM Kelly Ripa's husband Mark Consuelos drunkenly blurted news of her third ... trends now Most couples choose to wait until the end of the first trimester before telling the world they're expecting a baby but Kelly Ripa had no such luck with two of her three children. Ripa, 51, reveals in her new book of personal essays, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, how her inebriated husband Mark Consuelos once let the cat out of the bag about her third pregnancy just moments after she told him the good news. The daytime TV firebrand exclusively shared an excerpt from the chapter titled, 'It's probably just the flu', where she explains how her 'drinky-drinky, happy-happy' husband couldn't keep quiet. Cat is out of the bag: Kelly Ripa exclusively shared an excerpt from her new book of personal essays, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, to DailyMail.com about how Mark Consuelos let slip she was pregnant Kelly and Mark, who are parents to Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 19, were not trying for baby number three when the star found herself pregnant. At the time, Consuelos was on the other side of the globe filming a movie that required him to go off the grid for 1940s military training, when Kelly discovered she was expecting. Ripa had been battling what she thought was a flu for a little while and when she finally relented and went to the doctor, low and behold it was actually the baby flu. When Mark was finally able to get in touch with his wife - who, at that point, had known for weeks that she was pregnant - it was the crack of dawn. Whoops: She had been battling what she thought was a flu for a little while and when she finally relented and went to the doctor, low and behold it was actually the baby flu (Mark and Kelly seen with their children Michael, 25, Lola, 21, and Joaquin, 19) She penned: '"Hello,'" I purred into the phone, trying to make the most of my predawn voice, the only time my voice sounded sexy.' '"BABY! BAAAAABY! I'M BACK!"' Mark shouted into the phone. He was obviously at a bar, and obviously drinky-drinky, happy-happy.' Ripa hilariously recalls letting her actor husband ramble on about his production for more than a half hour while she kept the big news to herself. 'I heard about the rations, the boot camp, the realistic-looking weapons, the tent, his tent mate James Carpinello, the drills, the SNAKES, the military raids on the faux Japanese camp. The night watch. The falling asleep. The stumbling upon an actual dairy farm, and almost being shot by a real farmer, with a real gun,' she wrote.