Kelly Ripa Will Play Her Real Life Husband's Mistress on Riverdale

Talk about some extreme roleplaying - Kelly Ripa is set to become the other woman in her own marriage when she joins husband Mark Consuelos, who plays Hiram Lodge, on the CW's popular teenage drama Riverdale.

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The Live with Kelly and Ryan host shared the news on Instagram yesterday with a photo of herself posed in a leather armchair and a cheeky caption.

"It's a family affair," she wrote. "Hiram's mistress. 23 years of auditioning for a role I was born to play."

Ripa joins the Riverdale cast as the latest in a collection of attractive parents played by the likes of Luke Perry, Madcen Amick, and Consuelos. Ripa's character is described as "Confident and tough, she is Hiram Lodge's alleged mistress. She's a beautiful, icy, femme fatale who gets caught up in a conspiracy that's much bigger than she initially realized." Ripa and Consuelos' son, Michael, is set to play the younger version of his on-screen and off-screen dad on tonight's flashback episode, according to E!. Now to find out how Ripa feels about cheating on her husband with her husband.