Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos are two of daytime TV’s most recognizable faces, but their eldest son has built a career behind the camera.

Michael Consuelos has worked on several TV shows since graduating from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2020. Most recently, he has served as a producer on a handful of Bravo reality shows, including Summer House.

Reality star Lindsay Hubbard opened up about working with Michael in an interview with Decider, published on Thursday, May 14, particularly, how little she ran into him on set. “We didn’t see him often,” she revealed. “They kind of put him in Video Village and didn’t let him out of the basement. Poor guy.”

Michael’s busy work schedule is something Hubbarb told the outlet she has chatted about with his famous parents. “I just talked to Kelly and Mark about this, too. We were cracking up,” she quipped. “[Kelly] was like, ‘They don’t let him come out of the basement.’ And I was like, ‘Well, you gotta work your way up, Kelly. Literally, physically work your way up.’”

Michael is the eldest of Kelly and Mark’s three children, along with their daughter, Lola Consuelos, and youngest son, Joaquin Consuelos. Michael scored a handful of acting roles before working on the other side of the camera, including playing a younger version of Mark’s villainous Hiram Lodge on The CW series Riverdale.

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Last month on Live With Kelly and Mark, the hosts joked that Michael didn’t give them the scoop on the latest Summer House drama. Several cast members have been at odds since Amanda Batula began dating her close friend Ciara Miller‘s ex, West Wilson.

“Our son, Michael, our oldest son, is a producer on this show, but he tells us nothing,” Ripa joked on Live’s April 29 episode. She went on to joke, “I cannot comment on this, and you would think our son would prepare us for this. He tells us nothing.”

Hubbard weighed in on the drama on the May 8 episode of Live. “I had this take last week. I think that goes against girl code. Where do you fall?” Kelly asked. Hubbard replied, “I have a lot of very solid girlfriends around me who — we love to really classify ‘girls’ girls’ around here. Girl code is you don’t really go for your friend’s ex-boyfriend, no matter if they were never fully official.”

Before Michael began working for Bravo, Kelly and Mark opened up about his struggle to find a job during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Adulting is hard nowadays. It’s very hard for kids. Job opportunities aren’t what they were. The economy is driving this trend,” Ripa noted on a November 2022 episode of Live, per People. “I know that Michael graduated college in May of 2020 and he had a writing job lined up which evaporated because the pandemic shut down the production and it just never came back.”

She added, “So, you know, we gave him a grace period of an additional year to find other job opportunities because it’s hard.”

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