"Riverdale" Enlists Kelly Ripa to Play Hiram Lodge's [Spoiler]
by Vlada Gelman
November 6, 2018


Hiram Lodge is cheating on his TV wife with his real-life wife! "Riverdale" star Mark Consuelos’ spouse Kelly Ripa will guest-star in an episode of The CW series as Hiram’s alleged mistress.

Ripa broke the news via an Instagram post on Tuesday evening, writing, “It’s a family affair. Hiram’s mistress. 23 years of auditioning for a role I was born to play.”

According to Us Weekly, Ripa’s character, the confident Mrs. Mulwray, is “a beautiful, icy femme fatale who gets caught up in a conspiracy that’s much bigger than she initially realized.” (Anyone else hoping for a Mrs. Mulwray vs. Hermione Lodge face-off?)

https://tvline.com/2018/11/06/riverdale-kelly-ripa-cast-hiram-mistress-mark-consuelos-season-3/

Kelly Ripa's first response to being offered a Riverdale role: "They’re going to be so sick of Consueloses" (https://ew.com/tv/2019/01/30/kelly-ripa-riverdale-hiram/)

Ripa says her husband Mark Consuelos first approached her about playing his mistress. “He said (creator), ‘Roberto (Aguirre-Sacasa) wants to know if you would be interested in doing a role on the show.’ (Our son) Michael had just played a young version of Mark, and I said, ‘Oh my gosh, honey, they’re going to be so sick of Consueloses on the set of Riverdale,” Ripa tells EW. “I started naming all these women that I thought would be the perfect actress to play (Hiram’s) mistress, and he was like, ‘No, Roberto wants you.’ How can I turn down an offer like that?”