Chris Evans adopted his dog Dodger while filming a movie in a kennel facility.
“I foolishly walked in and thought, 'Are these actor dogs or real up for adoption dogs?'
… I snagged him and he's such a good dog,” he told PEOPLE in April 2017.
Glen Powell secured his terrier-poodle mix Brisket through an online adoption while filming in Oklahoma in summer 2023.
“I was very desperate to get Brisket,” he recalled to Vogue in August 2024.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos adopted a Maltese-Shih Tzu mix after a televised animal segment in March 2021, following the loss of their dog Chewie.
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“We're still not over the loss … but we definitely are considering a sibling,” Ripa told PEOPLE in September 2025.
