“We met almost 30 years ago working together, and we always had a great working relationship,” the 52-year-old, who met Mark on All My Children, told The Purist. “I love Mark more than I can articulate. He’s a proper person. He’s just a gentleman. He knows who he is. He is confident and kind and unassuming and very humble. He is irreverent. He understands the absurdity, and he finds the humor in everything.”
“Having said that, he’s also a very serious person,” she added. “He is focused on his family in ways that seem like from another time, and I think that we are a good partnership. We build each other up, and we always have. We are fiercely loyal and extraordinarily protective, and yet we keep each other laughing, at home and at work.”
In fact, Kelly said some of her favorite episodes of Live are the ones that involve her family.
“Looking back, I’m so blessed because I have my kids, who are now all adults,” she explained. “I have these incredible Christmas segments, cooking segments with them throughout the years, from the time they were newborns all the way on up throughout their lives.”