Kelly Ripa thanks Kathie Lee Gifford for not reading her book - CNN

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Kelly Ripa is turning a antagonistic into a positive.

During a caller occurrence of the podcast “Not Skinny But Not Fat,” the greeting speech amusement big was asked astir Kathie Lee Gifford saying she doesn’t program to work Ripa’s caller memoir, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.”

“It’s truly hard to merchantability a book, right? And this is similar week 3 of the book, right? And I mean, honestly, I’m not gonna lie, I was not speechmaking immoderate headlines anywhere,” Ripa said. “And abruptly each of these headlines popular up and there’s each of this attraction connected my book, truthful I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive. And truthful my eventual remark is, convey you.”

Ripa became co-host of “Live With Regis and Kelly” successful 2000, aft Gifford near the longtime greeting show.

In her book, Ripa writes astir her analyzable narration with her erstwhile co-host Regis Philbin, who died of earthy causes astatine the property of 88 successful 2020.

“I’m not gonna work the book. I haven’t work it,” Gifford said of Ripa’s publication during an quality connected “Good Day New York.” “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.”

As for whether Ripa thinks Gifford mightiness consciousness otherwise astir the publication if she work it?

“I deliberation anybody that reads the publication volition person a wholly antithetic take,” Ripa said during the podcast.

Her publication is fig 4 connected the New York Times hardcover nonfiction bestsellers database arsenic of Wednesday.