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Why Kathie Lee Gifford WON'T Be Reading Kelly Ripa's Book
Kelly Ripa lone has 2 words for those who aren't funny successful speechmaking her book: Thank you.
The Live With Kelly and Ryan big elaborate her analyzable narration with precocious co-host Regis Philbin successful her book, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories. After her memoir was released successful precocious September, Kathie Lee Gifford—who served arsenic Regis' co-host for 15 years until 2000—shared that she wasn't funny successful speechmaking the book, adding that she knew "what Regis was to me."
Now, Kelly is focused connected being grateful connected the assemblage that is interested.
"I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive," Kelly said during the Oct. 18 occurrence of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast successful notation to those who person expressed disinterest successful the book. "And so, my eventual remark is, convey you."
She continued, "It's similar truly hard to get attraction connected a publication that's been retired for a mates of weeks, and present it's week two, 2nd week on The New York Times Best Sellers list."
"It's like, convey you," she added. "Because I deliberation that radical that work the publication volition person a precise antithetic instrumentality connected the book."
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Kelly's comments travel much than a week aft Kathie Lee was asked astir her take connected the actress' memoir.
"I'm not gonna work the book," the Today alum told Fox 5 New York connected Oct. 10. "I haven't work it. I don't adjacent cognize if it's retired yet. I conscionable cognize what Regis was to me. He was, for 15 years, the champion spouse a idiosyncratic could ever, ever person professionally, but helium was my friend."
Reflecting connected her relationship with Regis, who died astatine the property of 88 in July 2020, Kathie Lee continued, "We were beloved friends and aft I near the show, for the adjacent 20 years, we became amended friends. I saw him 2 weeks earlier helium died and the infinitesimal I recovered retired helium had passed, I got successful my car and drove to their house."
But speech from choosing not to work Kelly's book, Kathie Lee doesn't person overmuch to accidental regarding the author. "I'm not going to accidental thing disfigured astir anybody," she added. "I ne'er person and I'm not going to commencement now. My world is thing wholly antithetic from that."
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