Kelly Ripa’s hotly anticipated memoir is lastly out, however Kathie Lee Gifford goes to go on choosing up a replica.
Showing Monday on Fox 5’s “Good Day New York,” Gifford stated she was bowled over by studies of eyebrow-raising feedback that Ripa made within the e book about Regis Philbin, their shared discuss present co-host.
“I used to be very sorry to see the headlines,” Gifford stated. “I noticed that, and I went: ‘Oh, I hope this isn’t true. I simply hope it isn’t.’ As a result of what’s the purpose? I don’t get it.”
She continued: “I’m not going to learn the e book. I haven’t learn it. I don’t even know if it’s out but. I simply know ... what Regis was to me.”
Gifford, an Emmy winner, labored with Philbin on ABC’s “Dwell With Regis and Kathie Lee” from 1985 to 2000. In 2001, Ripa was named as Gifford’s successor, with the morning discuss present renamed “Dwell With Regis and Kelly.”
Watch Kathie Lee Gifford’s “Good Day New York” interview beneath.
Gifford joined NBC’s “As we speak” in 2008 and parted methods with this system in 2019.
In Ripa’s e book — “Dwell Wire: Lengthy-Winded Brief Tales,” launched in September — she stated Philbin’s preliminary demeanor towards her wasn’t probably the most welcoming.
“There have been good and dangerous days,” Ripa informed Individuals final month. “I don’t wish to really feel like I’m slamming anybody or that I’m being disrespectful. However I additionally need folks to realize it was not a cakewalk.”
Philbin retired from “Dwell With Regis and Kelly” in 2011, after which he was changed by a sequence of co-hosts, together with Michael Strahan from 2012 to 2016 and Ryan Seacrest beginning in 2017. He died in 2020 at age 88.
As for Philbin’s 2017 suggestion that his relationship with Ripa turned strained after his retirement, she informed Individuals, “You may’t make an individual befriend you.”
On this week’s “Good Day New York” look, Gifford stated she was involved over how Philbin’s widow, Pleasure, would interpret Ripa’s remarks. She additionally acknowledged that her personal relationship with Philbin was a world away from Ripa’s.
“We have been expensive mates. And after I left the present, for the following 20 years, we turned higher mates, dearer mates,” she stated. “We by no means had an argument, not an unkind phrase in 15 years.”
“I’m not going to say something ugly about anyone,” she continued. “I by no means have, and I’m not going to begin now. I’m simply saying my actuality is one thing utterly completely different from that.”
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