Just like Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos, 8 more celebrity couples who've worked together
To have and to host from this day forward. Mark Consuelos will join his wife Kelly Ripa as her official cohost of “Live,” starting Monday. And it’s not the first time the twosome, who eloped in Las Vegas in 1996, have worked together. They met while starring on ABC’s “All My Children.” They’ve also guest-starred on each other’s series over the years. Consuelos played Ripa’s love interest on her three-season ABC comedy “Hope & Faith,” while she portrayed his mistress on CW’s “Riverdale.”
They’re far from the first or only married couple to say “I do” to working together. Here are eight more power pairings.
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Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
The stars of “I Love Lucy” pledged their undying love for each other at their wedding in 1940. A decade into their marriage they founded production company Desilu, and a year later introduced the classic CBS comedy about fame-hungry Lucy and her Cuban bandleader husband Ricky Ricardo (1951-57). Ball became the first TV actress to be shown pregnant, when she was expecting son Desi Jr., born 1953. Desilu also brought audiences “Star Trek” and “Mission: Impossible,” among other shows. Ball and Arnaz's marriage ended in 1960.
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The couple, who wed in 2008 and share three children, make beautiful music together, figuratively and literally. In addition to collaborating on songs that you can’t help but dance to – think "'03 Bonnie & Clyde," "Drunk in Love," and "Upgrade U" – they also released a joint album in 2018, “Everything is Love.” The two have also toured together twice, in 2014 and 2018. The latter, Forbes reports, earned the couple “roughly $5 million per night, pulling in a total of more than $250 million.”
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez
Offscreen, Affleck and Lopez reunited and wed in Las Vegas and Georgia last year, 18 years after calling off their engagement. Onscreen, the pair collaborated on Lopez’s “Jenny from the Block” music video (2002) and "Gigli," the widely panned 2003 romantic comedy. Both appeared in Kevin Smith’s “Jersey Girl” the following year.
Two decades later, Lopez has been cast in a biopic of wrestler Anthony Robles, produced by Affleck and BFF Matt Damon. "What fun and what a joy to do something with her, see her be great, go to work with your wife, go to work with your best friend,” Affleck said on “CBS Sunday Morning” in March. “If you love the people at work, you probably have a pretty good life."
Barack and Michelle Obama
From the White House to home entertainment, the former first family struck up a deal with Netflix in 2018, the year they founded Higher Ground, a production company. The partnership has yielded kids show “Waffles + Mochi,” docs “Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution” and “Our Great National Parks,” and the feature “Fatherhood,” starring Kevin Hart, along with podcasts.
Harry and Meghan
From royals to the king and queen of media? The Duke and Duchess created Archewell, which encompasses a charitable foundation and production company. Through Archewell Productions, Harry and Meghan partnered with Netflix in 2020 to develop scripted shows, documentaries, movies and children’s programming. Meghan launched her podcast "Archetypes," as part of Archewell Audio’s deal with Spotify, in 2022.
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Viola Davis and Julius Tennon
Davis’ hesitation to start a relationship with Tennon was documented in a 2020 book, “What Makes a Marriage Last: 40 Celebrated Couples Share with Us the Secrets to a Happy Life” by actress Marlo Thomas and her husband, former talk show host Phil Donahue. Davis told her therapist she worried there was something wrong with Tennon. But, the therapist assured Davis there's something wrong with everyone, including the Oscar winner, and urged her to call him. Two decades after tying the knot in 2003, the actors’ union is still going strong. They launched JuVee Productions in 2011, which has developed features like “The Woman King” and “Troop Zero."
Chip and Joanna Gaines
In January, Chip Gaines reflected on the 20th anniversary of Magnolia, the Waco, Texas-based company he started with wife Joanna the same year they said “I do.” It began with a décor shop and blossomed into renovation series “Fixer Upper,” a television network, a tourist destination and a retail line.
"We didn't have much figured out in the way of numbers and finances, but we believed in each other, and we believed in a dream to build something that would matter," Chip wrote on Magnolia's blog. "Something that would be meaningful, not only to us, but to our family and our community. And who knows, maybe even the world.”
Tim McGraw and Faith Hill
There might be several country tunes about love lost, but two of the industry’s biggest stars have a love that has stood the test of time. Hill and McGraw’s relationship began when she opened for him on tour in 1996. They were married that same year and have collaborated on ballads, a joint album and concert tours.
They took their fondness for working together to the small screen for their first joint acting gig: Paramount+ "Yellowstone" spinoff “1883.” Hill became an expert at driving the wagon, McGraw told USA TODAY last year. "The scene where we're crossing the river, she hauled out on that wagon as I'm swimming on the horse trying to keep up," McGraw said. "We did that scene at 3:30 a.m. in, like, 36-degree weather. We were soaked. And it was our 25th wedding anniversary."
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