Kelly Ripa's 'big hair' throwback sets Instagram abuzz
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Kelly Ripa is bringing "big hair" back — at least, she did in her latest Instagram post.
The "Live! with Kelly" host gave fans some 80s nostalgia on Thursday when she posted a photo of her younger self sporting a perm. It's unclear how old Ripa was in the photo, but it brought many people back to her "Dance Party USA" days.
"#tbt #aquanet," Ripa captioned the image, referring to the popular hair spray. The image garnered more than 110,000 likes and thousands of comments.
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"Holy eighties hair Batman 😳," one Instagram user replied.
As we used to say 'Big hair, don’t care!' a woman joked.
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"The bigger the hair the closer to heaven! 80’s!!!" a user chimed in.
"Dance Party USA Days!!" another exclaimed.
The dance television show ran from 1986 to 1992. When Ripa appeared on the program, she was just a teenager "trying to get her big break," Inside Edition reports.
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The TV host's career has certainly taken off since then.
Ripa and her husband Mark Consuelos are executive producers for the upcoming ABC sitcom "The Sanchez Way," which centers around a Mexican-American family, according to Deadline. She also recently landed a role alongside her husband on the popular teen drama "Riverdale" on the CW.
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And Consuelos was thrilled to be back working with his wife.
"It was such a treat. That's how I started my career, working with my wife. We haven't done it in such a long time, acting-wise. It was really good to have her on the show. She knows a lot of the cast. They met over the summer when she was visiting Vancouver. It was just a lot of fun," he told Good Housekeeping on Friday.
Ripa, 48, announced her new role as Hiram Lodge's (Consuelos) mistress in a November Instagram post.
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"It’s a family affair........Hiram’s mistress. 23 years of auditioning for a role i was born to play. Coming soon to the @thecwriverdale," she wrote at the time.
Consuelos and Ripa have been married for more than two decades. They are parents to Michael, 20, Lola, 17, and Joaquin, 15.