Kelly Ripa turns 55 this year and is now in her 24th season on morning television, yet somehow she is still the one surprising us.

Between waking up to another Emmy win, hosting the International Emmys, and finally telling the unvarnished truth about the All My Children reboot, November has been vintage Ripa: funny, heartfelt, and completely unscripted.

I have covered her since the Regis era and, full disclosure, once dismissed her as “just the soap girl.”

She made me eat those words within weeks.

What keeps her fresh is not the résumé, it is the way she lets the messy, human moments slip through.

October 20 started like any Monday for Kelly and husband Mark Consuelos, until their phones blew up at 3 a.m. Live with Kelly and Mark had just won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Talk Series.

Again.

They were not even at the ceremony.

“We thought someone died,” Kelly laughed the next morning, still in her robe, waving the statue in the air.

It marked their second consecutive win as hosts and another trophy in a very crowded cabinet.

Exactly one month later, on November 24, the couple swapped the morning couch for the stage of the International Emmy Awards in New York.

Kelly, stunning in emerald green, kept the room in stitches while presenting honors to the best television from around the globe.

Mark, steady and charming beside her, reminded everyone why their chemistry remains daytime’s not-so-secret weapon.

Every soap fan has the same question these days: When are we going back to Pine Valley?

On November 25, she finally gave an honest answer.

Appearing on the Soapy podcast with former co-stars Rebecca Budig and Greg Rikaart, Kelly admitted the revival she and Mark announced in 2020 has been stalled by ABC executive turnover and shifting priorities.

“It has been challenging,” she said, “and at this point it is not entirely up to us.”

Hope is not dead, rumors of a Hulu move still circulate, but Kelly’s candor felt like closure and a promise at the same time.

She dished on first kisses with Mark on set, the sting of early pay gaps, and 5 a.m. call times that built her work ethic.

Quick trivia: All My Children featured daytime’s longest-running gay storyline starting in 1994, and Kelly’s Hayley Vaughan was front and center for those groundbreaking episodes.

No Ripa month is complete without a viral moment or three.

On November 21, while chatting about holiday pajamas, she casually veered into morning-sex logistics with Mark and dropped an F-bomb that earned an instant bleep.

Live television, zero panic, she just shrugged and kept rolling. Classic Kelly.

Two days before Thanksgiving, she and Mark launched into an all-out war over dinner time.

He is Team 2 p.m. (“I am starving!”).

She is Team 6 p.m. (“So we can graze all day like civilized humans.”) It ended with her dubbing him “the king of doing nothing for Christmas” and floating the idea of an “airport divorce.”

That is right, splitting up at the terminal before vacations to avoid arguments.

A therapist guest confirmed it is an actual strategy high-stress couples swear by.

Half the country immediately started texting their partners.

Behind the laughs, 2025 has asked a lot of the family.

They said goodbye to their dog Chewie last month, tears flowing freely in the air.

Daughter Lola released a deeply personal EP and opened up about anxiety, something Kelly championed loudly and proudly.

Joaquin graduated from Michigan, Michael is climbing the Hollywood ladder, and Kelly still jokes about worrying her science-obsessed youngest would never make friends (he is fine, Mom).

New studio in 2026, more episodes of Let’s Talk Off Camera, and, fingers crossed, real movement on Pine Valley.

Whatever comes next, Kelly will meet it with the same quick wit and zero filter that’s kept her on our screens and in our group chats for two and a half decades.

At SeriesLiveUpdates.com, we will be here for every laugh, every update, and every perfectly timed curse word.

So tell us, are you Team 2 p.m. Thanksgiving or Team 6 p.m.?

Drop it in the comments.

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