Mark Consuelos is receiving birthday love from those closest to him on his 55th birthday. On Monday, March 30th, his wife Kelly Ripa and daughter Lola shared personal tributes on Instagram to celebrate his special day. The 24-year-old shared a carousel of photos and videos of her dad throughout the years. In her caption, Lola wrote a heartfelt message to her "superhero" dad.
"Happy birthday to my superhero. You will forever and always be the most important man in my life," Lola wrote. "I wish more than anything that I were with you today. More than ever this year, I love you, Dad – the coolest Mexican, Italian man to walk this earth!!!!"
Ripa, who co-hosts Live with Kelly and Mark with her husband, made a special post of her own, poking fun at Consuelos' love for "cake and party hats." In her 10-photo carousel, she shared a mixture of throwback and recent photos of the All My Children actor blowing out candles on his birthday.
"Happy birthday @instasuelos – a man who loves cake and party hats more than most people, and I love you," she captioned the post.
Ripa and Consuelos have been married since May 1996, one year after meeting on the soap opera All My Children. The couple has been busy raising their three now-adult children: Michael, 28, Lola, and Joaquin, 23.
In April 2023, Consuelos officially became Ripa's co-host on Live. Before that, the couple talked to PEOPLE about what the show has meant to their family over the past 20-plus years.
"Now our children, who are adults, meet people who will come up to them and say, 'Oh, I've watched you grow up. I'm so proud of you.' And that means something to us," Ripa said. Consuelos added: "This is going to be a really fun [chapter of life] that we can look back on with great joy."
During an episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers, the couple opened up about why they think people love their morning show, saying that people simply like "watching their parents fight." When host Seth Meyers asked the couple, who've been together for nearly three decades, if any of their adult children watch their talk show, both Ripa and Consuelos instantly replied, "No."
"So people like to watch their parents fight, except for your children," Meyers joked, which prompted Ripa to share the only reason their son Joaquin will watch their appearance on the late-night show.
"Our youngest son – our youngest is 22 – and we asked him to come here tonight 'cause he was visiting us. He lives in Michigan, and he was visiting us. And I said, 'Do you want to come see Seth tonight?' And he goes, he goes, 'No, no, no, I'll … watch it on the show when it airs,'" she recalled.
"And I go, 'Oh, you're going to watch?' And he goes, 'Well, I watch Seth,'" she continued. "So he's like, 'I'm not watching for you. I'm just naturally watching Seth.'"
