Kelly Ripa, co-host of Live with Regis and Kelly, Shape Magazine cover girl, 5 time Soap Opera Digest Award winner and part-time wine cork, was photographed standing next to a terrifyingly delicious sea creature: Carvel Ice Cream’s Fudgie the Whale.  Sure, these two look chummy enough: The casual choco-fin perched gayly on his flankenstein; the cocked brows; green eyes, devilishly alluring, encouraging you to grab the nearest wooden spoon and devour him while sitting on the cold tiles of the bathroom floor, door locked, tiny fists banging on the other side as your child threatens to soil himself.  The world shuts down when Fudgie beaches his tasty ass on the shore of your loneliness, doesn’t it?

And perhaps no one is more aware of this scenario than notorious 45-pound incubator premie Kelly Ripa.  Because you know what is not nearly as delicious as the surprisingly humongous chocolate whale mascot?  Celery Brulee, that’s what. Frozen watersicles. Iced bone pops. 2 carob chips. Soyfflé. None of those things can compare to Coco Megaptera Novaeangliae (his Latin name.) Still, above, the twain meet without apparent incident. Kudos.

Via Julie Klausner, who I thank for teaching me that Fudgie the Whale is on Twitter.