Kathie Lee Gifford would not plan to learn Kelly Ripa's e-book

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Kathie Lee Gifford says she’s going to cross on studying Kelly Ripa’s new e-book.

Ripa grew to become co-host of “Stay With Regis and Kelly” in 2000, after Gifford left the longtime morning present.

In her new e-book, “Stay Wire: Lengthy -Winded Quick Tales, Ripa writes about her difficult relationship together with her former co-host Regis Philbin, who died of pure causes on the age of 88 in 2020.

“I’m not gonna learn the e-book. I haven’t learn it,” Gifford mentioned throughout her “Good Day New York” look on Monday. “I don’t even know if it’s out but. I simply know what Regis was to me. He was, for 15 years, the very best associate an individual may ever, ever have professionally, however he was my pal.”

In line with Ripa, she had visitor co-hosted the present thrice when she was supplied the place completely. The job supply got here with an “ominous” warning, “They need you to know who your boss is,” Ripa mentioned.

When she arrived on the present together with her hair and make-up group, Ripa mentioned Philbin turned to their govt producer Michael Gelman and mentioned, “Uh-oh, Gelman, it’s obtained an entourage.”

“I felt horrible,” Ripa recalled. “He was most likely making an attempt to be humorous, however on the identical time it felt like a pile-on. I perceive that most likely he didn’t need a co-host, however the community wished me to be the co-host and I didn’t assume I ought to cross up that chance. I don’t assume it was honest to him. Nevertheless it was additionally not honest to me.”

Gifford mentioned she was “very sorry” to learn the headlines about what Ripa needed to say about Philbin. Her preliminary response, Gifford mentioned, was “Oh, I hope this isn’t true.”

“In all of the years I knew him, I by no means noticed him unkind to anybody,” Gifford mentioned. “I by no means did. If he favored you, he teased you.”

Ripa did have optimistic issues to say about Philbin as effectively.

She mentioned she remembers their interactions away from work fondly and holds nice respect for her late colleague.

“If I may turn into a tenth nearly as good, I’d be blissful,” she mentioned of Philbin. “It’s taking the viewers on a trip with you and remembering that you're at all times the butt of the joke. I beloved him, and I nonetheless do.”

Muricas News has reached out to representatives for Ripa for remark.