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When Kelly Ripa and husband, Mark Consuelos, head out to the Hamptons, the plan is to have no plan, the actress and star of "Live with Regis and Kelly" tells Hamptons magazine in the cover story of the current issue. “I spend far more time cooking in the Hamptons, where I actually have time,” Ripa says.

According to the magazine, the Ripa and Consuelos and their three children decamp at a year-round house in Bridgehampton, where the newly installed backyard fire-pit is a main attraction. “It’s stone and really nice,” Ripa says. “We have Adirondack chairs around it. We make s’mores and the kids get so excited. Then we put them right to bed since they’re too tired to take a bath after that, and they wake up in the morning and smell a little like smoked hams.” Ripa burns off the s’mores by running several times a week. In the Hamptons, running is, “like a religious experience. It’s so beautiful.”

But don’t expect to see the family out and about. Ripa prefers to spend her Hamptons time at home. “We’re really not on the scene … it seems like we’re everywhere, but we’re not.” Ripa does get out for charity events including her annual stint at hosting the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund’s Super Saturday, which will be held this year on July 26.