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Kelly Ripa didn’t simply get pleasure from watching Breaking Bad — she discovered it academic as nicely.
In the course of the Tuesday, January 7, episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, Ripa, 54, introduced up her love for the AMC collection, telling producer Michael Gelman, “Do you keep in mind once I was like, ‘I believe I could make meth!’ as a result of I’ve seen Breaking Dangerous?”
Ripa continued: “I’m like a chef. I like to look at cooking reveals — baking reveals, actually, I’m extra of a baker — which is science — and, apparently, so is making crystal meth. So I grew to become satisfied that I, too, might make crystal meth.”
Consuelos, 53, tried to make clear what Ripa meant, including, “You additionally assume you may determine skate when you watch the Olympics. Ripa replied by joking that she has “a—— syndrome.”
“I do. I’ve it. If I see something on TV, I’m then like, ‘I can completely try this.’ And each Winter Olympics, I transfer all of the furnishings in the lounge. I do,” she quipped. “I transfer the furnishings, I placed on my socks, and I’m like, ‘I’m going to do lounge Olympics.’ Sorry, don’t hate the participant, hate the sport.”

Bryan Cranston in “BREAKING BAD.” Cowl Photos
Breaking Dangerous, which aired from 2008 to 2013, launched Bryan Cranston as highschool chemistry instructor Walter White. He begins producing and distributing meth with former scholar Jesse (Aaron Paul) after being recognized with stage three lung most cancers. Walter’s makes an attempt to safe a financially secure future for his household earlier than he dies leads to him getting caught up in a lifetime of crime.
“I keep in mind studying issues [like] ‘Disgrace on Sony, disgrace on AMC for greenlighting a present that’s glamorizing the cooking and promoting of meth,’” Paul, 45, advised Leisure Weekly in 2018 concerning the preliminary backlash. “All of that rapidly went away the second we hit the air.”
Cranston, 68, additionally weighed in on the very heavy content material. “All of us got here to an concept: ‘We’ll speak about what the present is absolutely about. It’s about this man’s decision-making,’” he famous on the time. “However we by no means had to make use of it,” he mentioned. “It simply dissipated as a result of the critics and followers noticed what the present was about and had been sympathetic to those characters.”
The Breaking Dangerous franchise has since expanded with prequel Better Call Saul and 2019’s El Camino: A Breaking Dangerous Film. Regardless of the crime drama’s success, Paul beforehand revealed he didn’t receive residuals from the streaming service.

Bryan Cranston in “BREAKING BAD.” Cowl Photos
“I don’t get a chunk from Netflix on Breaking Dangerous to be completely sincere, and that’s insane to me, you already know what I imply?” Paul advised Leisure Tonight in 2023. “Exhibits stay endlessly on these streamers and it goes by waves. And I simply noticed the opposite day that Breaking Dangerous was trending on Netflix, and it’s simply such widespread sense, and I believe plenty of these streamers, they know they’ve been getting away with not paying folks simply honest wage and now it’s time to pony up, and that’s simply one of many issues we’re preventing for.”