Kelly Ripa And Mark Consuelos Host An Audience-Free “Snow Day” Episode of ‘Live’ As EP Michael Gelman Is “Stuck in Florida”: “We Are Running The Show”

Published Feb. 23, 2026, 10:51 a.m. ET

It’s a marshmallow world in New York City right about now, but that didn’t stop Live with Kelly and Mark from airing live on Monday!

Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos were back in the studio this morning amid the ongoing blizzard, hosting members of the daytime talk show’s staff in the studio audience, though Live EP Michael Gelman was absent.

“It is a snow day around here, and Gelman is stuck in Florida,” Ripa teased.

Consuelos clarified, “For a good reason.”

Ripa added, “So we are running the show everybody!”

The co-hosts eventually alluded to the fact that Gelman was away celebrating his father, Ron Gelman’s, 90th birthday, and gave him a special shoutout on the air.

“Happy birthday, Ron Gelman!” they exclaimed. “90 years old!”

Ripa was then reminded of “the early days of the pandemic,” when Gelman was “shooting [Live] from home” in Florida.

“Once in a while, Ron Gelman would wander behind the sot in his bath robe,” she recalled. “And Ron, if you wanna do that today, if you want to do a FaceTime in, I would love that because I miss that. I have more screen grabs of Ron Gelman in a bath robe than I care to admit.”

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The co-hosts teased that this is their “call to action,” requesting pictures of Ron Gelman as opposed to pictures of the snow.

Live held a similar “audience-free” episode on Jan. 26 amid Winter Storm Fern. Despite the snowy conditions, Carson Kressley stopped by to chat with the hosts, as did Owning Manhattan star Ryan Serhant, who talked all things real estate. Plus, the band Train made their way out to perform their 2001 song “Mississippi.”

Live with Kelly and Mark airs on weekdays. Check out their website for your local listings.