Turns out Mr. Kelly Ripa, Mark Consuelos, was a Florida stripper before he made it big playing a slab of Latin beef on “All My Children.” Now why doesn’t that surprise us? According to some website:

Paula Maguire of Tampa caught him with his G-string showing. “When I saw him on ‘All My Children’, I was convinced I had met him, but I couldn’t place exactly where,” she said. “Then one day I was looking through some old photos and it all came back to me. Mark Consuelos was a stripper at Stingers in North Tampa…that’s where I knew him from!”

Paula and her pals were throwing a going-away party for a girlfriend back in 1994.

No word yet on whether or not that brunette pictured below him is “Paula.”

SOAP HUNK’S SECRET PAST – AS A STRIPPER! [AMC Daytime]