Kelly Ripa has surprising reaction to Kathie Lee Gifford dissing her book - Page Six

Kelly Ripa is unfazed by Kathie Lee Gifford’s diss.

The existent “Live” big showed gratitude to her predecessor 1 week aft the “Today” amusement alum said she was not going to read Ripa’s caller book, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.”

“I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive,” Ripa, 52, said successful Tuesday’s occurrence of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, noting that Gifford’s comments lone gave her latest merchandise much “attention.”

Kelly Ripa responded to Kathie Lee Gifford’s diss implicit her memoir.kellyripa/Instagram

She continued, “It’s truly hard to merchantability a book, right? … So my eventual remark is, ‘Thank you.'”

The erstwhile soap prima noted that erstwhile readers cheque retired her book, peculiarly the sections covering her and precocious “Live” co-host Regis Philbin’s powerfulness dynamic, she thinks they volition “have a precise antithetic take” than Gifford.

The speech amusement big thanked Gifford for giving her publication “attention.”

“The comments I’ve gotten astir those chapters person been overwhelmingly positive, and the radical who work the publication took distant a batch of positivity from it,” she said.

Gifford, 69, slammed Ripa’s memoir 2 weeks aft its Sept. 27 publication.

Earlier this month, Gifford said she’s “not gonna” work the publication owed to its portrayal of Regis Philbin.Getty Images

“I was precise atrocious to spot the headlines [about Philbin],” Gifford, who co-hosted “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” for a decennary earlier Ripa took implicit successful 2001, told Fox 5’s Rosanna Scotto.

“You ne'er cognize what’s existent and what’s not true,” she continued. “I went, ‘I anticipation this isn’t true. I conscionable anticipation it isn’t.’ Because what’s the point? I don’t get it. I don’t get it.”

In the book, Ripa alleges that Philbin referred to her arsenic “it” and cleared up the “basic misconception” that the duo were friends extracurricular of work.

“I privation I had acceptable the grounds consecutive successful existent time,” she precocious explained connected “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen,” adding that she was antecedently told to “take the precocious road.”

The “Hope & Faith” alum joked, “As a woman, we are often told to instrumentality the precocious road, and that is pistillate talk for ‘Shut the f–k up.'”

As for Gifford, she called Philbin, who died successful July 2020 astatine property 88, the “best partner” earlier this month.

The Daytime Emmy victor gushed, “He was my friend. We were beloved friends, and aft I near the amusement … for the adjacent 20 years, we became amended friends, dearer friends.”