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As Live hosts Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa attended the Oscars 2026 at the Dolby Theatre March 15, the Riverdale alum shared why their show is the perfect place for hard conversations.
By Olivia Evans Mar 16, 2026 2:06 PM | Updated 50 minutes ago
Why Mark Consuelos Uses 'Live' for Nerve-Wracking Kelly Ripa Conversations
Mark Consuelos and Kelly Ripa are truly unfiltered on Live.
After all, the Riverdale alum revealed why he sometimes uses their daytime talk series to broach difficult conversations.
“When I’m really afraid to talk about something, I wait for the show,” Mark admitted to Entertainment Tonight in a joint interview with his wife of 29 years on the Oscars 2026 red carpet. “That way I have safety in numbers. I’m in a safe space.
To which Kelly added through laughter, “Why discuss is privately when I can bring it up in front of the audience?”
But while the couple—who share Michael, 28, Lola, 24, and Joaquin, 23—were spending their evening at the 98th Academy Awards, they were still planning on kicking off their Monday morning bright and early.
“All I know is that I wake up about 15 minutes into the show tomorrow morning,” Mark joked of the early call time. “I’m like, ‘Oh we’re here.’ And the show has been on already.”
Meanwhile, Kelly—who has previously hosted Live with Regis Philbin, Michael Strahan and Ryan Seacrest—detailed why she loves a post-Oscars morning on their show.
“There’s something really magical about taking that stage, that early morning hour, in front of all those people, knowing that so many moments of history were made the night before,” Kelly admitted. “Whoever shows up, shows up and we are grateful to them.”
Indeed, the Oscars 2026 panned out with several surprise wins amid stacked categories. One Battle After Another’s Teyana Taylor and Weapons’Amy Madigan were considerable favorites for the Best Supporting Actress trophy—having split major awards alongside Sinners’ Wunmi Mosaku—but the 75-year-old ultimately took the Academy’s prize.
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“This is great,” Amy said upon accepting the award. “Everybody’s been asking me, in the press for all of this, ‘Well it’s been 40 years and, what’s different about this time?’ What’s different is I got this little gold guy!”
For more Oscars 2026 winners, keep reading…
Best Picture
Bugonia
F1
Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
WINNER: One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Train Dreams
Actress in a Leading Role
WINNER: Jessie Buckley - Hamnet
Rose Byrne - If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
Kate Hudson - Song Sung Blue
Renate Reinsve - Sentimental Value
Emma Stone - Bugonia
Actor in a Leading Role
Timothée Chalamet - Marty Supreme
Leonardo DiCaprio - One Battle After Another
Ethan Hawke - Blue Moon
WINNER: Michael B. Jordan - Sinners
Wagner Moura - The Secret Agent
Actress in a Supporting Role
Elle Fanning - Sentimental Value
Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas - Sentimental Value
WINNER: Amy Madigan - Weapons
Wunmi Mosaku- Sinners
Teyana Taylor - One Battle After Another
Actor in a Supporting Role
Benecio Del Toro - One Battle After Another
Jacob Elordi - Frankenstein
Delroy Lindo - Sinners
WINNER: Sean Penn - One Battle After Another
Stellan Skarsgård - Sentimental Value
Director
Chloé Zhao - Hamnet
Josh Safdie - Marty Supreme
WINNER: Paul Thomas Anderson - One Battle After Another
Joachim Trier - Sentimental Value
Ryan Coogler - Sinners
Original Screenplay
Blue Moon
It Was Just An Accident
Marty Supreme
Sentimental Value
WINNER: Sinners
Costume Design
Avatar: Fire and Ash
WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
Sinners
Original Song
"Dear Me" from Diane Warren: Relentless
WINNER: "Golden" from KPop Deamon Hunters
"I Lied to You" from Sinners
"Sweet Dreams of Joy" from Viva Verdii
"Train Dreams" from Train Dreams
International Feature Film
The Secret Agent
It Was Just an Accident
WINNER: Sentimental Value
Sirat
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Live Action Short Film
Butcher's Stain
A Friend of Dorothy
Jane Austen's Period Drama
WINNER (Tie): The Singers
WINNER (Tie): Two People Exchanging Saliva
Documentary Short Film
WINNER: All the Empty Rooms
Armed Only With A Camera: The Life and Death of Brent Renaud
Children No More: "Were and Are Gone"
The Devil Is Busy
Perfectly a Strangeness
Original Score
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
One Battle After Another
WINNER: Sinners
Visual Effects
WINNER: Avatar: Fire and Ash
F1
Jurassic World Rebirth
The Lost Bus
Sinners
Cinematography
Frankenstein
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
WINNER: Sinners
Train Dreams
Film Editing
F1
Marty Supreme
WINNER: One Battle After Another
Sentimental Value
Sinners
Production Design
WINNER: Frankenstein
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Adapted Screenplay
Bugonia
Frankenstein
Hamnet
WINNER: One Battle After Another
Train Dreams
Documentary Feature Film
The Alabama Solution
Come See Me in the Good Light
Cutting Through Rocks
WINNER: Mr. Nobody Against Putin
The Perfect Neighbor
Casting
Hamnet
Marty Supreme
WINNER: One Battle After Another
The Secret Agent
Sinners
Animated Short Film
Butterfly
Forevergreen
WINNER: The Girl Who Cried Pearls
Retirement Plan
The Three Sisters
Makeup & Hairstyling
WINNER: Frankenstein
Kokuho
Sinners
The Smashing Machine
The Ugly Stepsister
Animated Feature Film
Arco
Elio
WINNER: Kpop Demon Hunters
Little Amélie or the Character of Rain
Zootopia 2
Sound
WINNER: F1
Frankenstein
One Battle After Another
Sinners
Sirat
Watch the Oscars 2026 Sunday, March 15, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC and streaming on Hulu.
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