Kelly Ripa Has A MESSAGE For Kathie Lee Gifford After Memoir Criticism!
19.10.2022 - 18:11
/ perezhilton.com
Kelly Ripa isn’t going to let Kathie Lee Gifford just say whatever she wants!
As Perezcious readers will recall, Regis Philbin‘s longtime daytime TV co-host and close friend went after Ripa — Regis’ more recent longtime morning show co-host — over Kelly’s recently-released memoir Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.
At issue for Kathie Lee was how Kelly wrote about her late co-host. Except there was just one problem: Gifford admitted she hadn’t read the book, and she wasn’t going to either! So the criticism fell flat for Mark Consuelos‘ wife!
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Now, the 52-year-old star is speaking out about Kathie Lee’s comments.
Kelly popped up on Tuesday’s episode of Dear Media‘s Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast to discuss the book and backlash. For one, Ripa credits Kathie Lee with re-igniting interest in the book a few weeks after it was first released:
Ryan Seacrest‘s co-host also took issue with how Kathie Lee characterized the book — especially since Gifford herself admitted she wasn’t going to read it. Kelly used the podcast to ask others to do a “deep dive” on the memoir, and said she hoped those “people that read the book” will have a completely different take on the chapters which mention Regis.
Ripa explained:
And she went on, claiming readers have been sending in “overwhelmingly positive” comments about her writing on her time on air with Philbin:
Interesting! But the real shade was yet to come!!
Kelly also told Hirsch that while “nobody has to read every book on Earth,” she seemed mystified that Kathie Lee would comment on something she doesn’t know about.
The key quote came up next:
WHEW!!!
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