Kelly Ripa Says She Cut Her Own Hair with Kitchen Scissors as She Shows Off Her Gray Roots
Kelly Ripa’s quarantine hair journey continues.
During Monday’s at-home episode of Live with Kelly and Ryan, the 49-year-old talk show host revealed that she cut her hair with kitchen scissors while cooped up inside amid the coronavirus. But don’t worry — she refrained from giving herself bangs.
“I’m not going to lie, I cut my own hair,” Ripa told husband Mark Consuelos, who debuted a new mustache while stepping in for Ripa’s co-host, Ryan Seacrest, on Monday.
“I used kitchen scissors, we obviously don’t have haircutting scissors. I cut my own hair. I didn’t cut bangs, because that’s…”
Consuelos, 49, interjected: “I would have stopped you.”
The Riverdale star admitted he was a little nervous about his wife’s DIY haircut because she used large scissors they had lying around the house instead of a sharp pair designed for styling.
“I didn’t say anything, but I was ready to jump in case you went across the bang,” he added.
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The pair also discussed Consuelos’s new facial hair (and the fact that his teenage kids don’t approve of it): “They say I look like an aging porn star,” he said.
“You know my dad had a mustache. And he still does. Growing up, I think he shaved it once and my mom made him grow it back,” the actor shared. “Because he had a lot of space between his nose and his top lip.”
Ripa sweetly replied , “I can take it or leave it, I like it both ways.”
Aside from her at-home trim, the TV personality has also discussed her hair coloring situation — specifically her gray roots — several times over the past few weeks. On the contrary, Ripa revealed that her husband, “doesn’t have a gray hair on his head.”
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“Anybody that follows me on Instagram knows that [my hair] is sprayed,” the star continued, referencing the #RootWatch weekly updates on her Instagram Story. “And you can kind of see it forcing. It wants to show you. It wants you to see the reality. There, I did it.”
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“Since I met you, you told me that you’re gray,” Consuelos replied. “And I gotta tell you, I see you in the morning and I think it looks beautiful. I like it. I’m looking forward to when it’s just completely gray.”
“Which is probably by the end of the week,” she quipped.
As for the self-tanner she’s been borrowing from 18-year-old daughter Lola Consuelos? Ripa is “running out” but explained that “you can extend your self-tanner by putting it in your moisturizer.
“So yeah, you’ll get to see my gray hair any second now,” she concluded.
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