Kelly RipaandMark Consueloseloped in Las Vegas 23 years ago, so the talk show host never had a proper bachelorette party — until now.
Monday marked the first broadcast ofLive with Kelly and Ryan‘s shows from the Paris Theater at Paris Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas this week, and the women of theLivecast were determined to treat Ripa to the quintessential Sin City hen night.
To check out the city with cocktails, the Ladies ofLivetook a spin on the LINQ’s High Roller, a massive Ferris Wheel that overlooks the Las Vegas Strip.
Ripa sported a hot pink “Bride” sash and a white cowboy hat with a veil, while her coworkers sported black and gold “Bride Tribe” t-shirts. The crew snapped selfies from atop the 550-foot wheel and enjoyed drinks from their own bartender.
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“Listen, I dig it. I like what you did here,” Ripa told the group. “We’re up here, we’re in the big eye in the sky, we’re looking over all of Vegas.”
“We have the hot bartender who’s really a stripper,” the mother of three added, as the bartender turned to the camera to say, “I’m not a stripper.”
Next, the group moved on to the “provocative” variety show Absinthe — checking off the “do something erotic” — where Ripa climbed on stage to ask the performer, “Would you be interested in being my secret stripper?”
For the “do something tasty” portion of the night, Ripa and her girls hitLisa Vanderpump‘s Cocktail Garden in Caesar’s Palace for dessert.
Kelly Ripa.Live With Ryan and Kelly
Once again, Ripa was on the lookout for her stripper, and asked one of the servers if he was their “pastry chef.”
“Is that your routine?” Ripa asked. “Are you the stripper?”
“Prettysure I’m not the stripper,” he replied, to Ripa’s disappointment.
The ladies then danced the night away at the Marquee Night Club at the Cosmopolitan Las Vegas, where Ripa even joined the deejay on stage to spin some beats — but not without asking the deejay if he was her secret stripper. Spoiler alert: he wasn’t.
Kelly Ripa’s stripper.Live With Ryan and Kelly
When the night was over, Ripa was expressing her disappointment that a stripper never showed up — just as a man dressed as a police officer arrived.
“Excuse me ladies, I think we’ve got a problem here, and I have a solution,” he said, opening his shirt to reveal some fake muscles.
At the end of it all, Ripa joked to Seacrest, “No actual strippers were hurt in the making of that piece.”
Ripa wed herRiverdalestar husband Consuelos in May of 1996 — just one day after he proposed.
source: people.com
