Agent' actor Gabriel Basso awkwardly attempted to avoid hugging Kelly Ripa in front of Mark Consuelos during his 'Live With Kelly and Mark' appearance: 'You're married.'

During Gabriel Basso’s Thursday appearance on “Live With Kelly and Mark,” the “Night Agent” star comically attempted to avoid hugging Kelly Ripa in front of her longtime husband, Mark Consuelos. Basso, 30, who was on the morning show to promote Season 2 of the Netflix thriller, walked out and approached Ripa with his hand extended outward.

The ABC daytime soap opera, which debuted in 1970, is celebrating its 55th anniversary this year Susan Lucci was there when Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos first met — and it was steamy! Speaking before an audience for Susan Lucci in Conversation with Andy Cohen: All My Children at 55 at 92NY in New York City on Tuesday,

Held at the 92nd Street Y and hosted by Andy Cohen and Susan Lucci, the event was attended by several cast members, as well as the soap opera’s head writer Lorraine Broderick and casting director Judy Blye Wilson. Ripa praised Wilson as “the reason that Mark Consuelos and I are married.”

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"We do hugs here. Is that okay? Was that weird?" Ripa asked, with Basso confirming "I just wanted to give you a handshake" in front of Ripa's husband.