Kelly Ripa Thanks Kathie Lee Gifford for Saying She Won't Read Her New Book - Yahoo Life

Kelly Ripa has recovered the metallic lining to extremity each metallic linings. The soap histrion and speech amusement host precocious released her memoir, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, and took the highest of roads erstwhile she recovered retired chap TV doyenne Kathie Lee Gifford won't beryllium speechmaking it.

“I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive,” Ripa said connected a caller occurrence of the Not Skinny But Not Fat podcast, per People. Ripa replaced Gifford connected Live! successful 2001 arsenic Regis Philbin's co-host; successful her memoir, per Page Six, Ripa said that Philbin referred to her arsenic “it" connected set. She added that they were not friends extracurricular of work.

Reacting to headlines astir Ripa's characterization of her and Philbin's realtionship, Gifford said, “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."

As for Ripa, she sees immoderate brouhaha arsenic escaped publicity. "It's truly hard to merchantability a book, right? And this is like, week 3 of the book, right? And I mean, honestly, I'm not gonna lie, I was not speechmaking immoderate headlines anywhere. And abruptly each of these headlines popular up and there's each of this attraction connected my book," she said of the dust-up astir Gifford. "So I americium a idiosyncratic that tends to instrumentality a antagonistic and crook it into a positive. And truthful my eventual remark is, convey you."

"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 connected The New York Times Best Sellers list. It's like, convey you, due to the fact that I deliberation that radical that work the publication volition person a precise antithetic instrumentality connected the book," she added.

Kelly Ripa besides added an aphorism that, frankly, I deliberation we should each usage erstwhile radical get snobby oregon uppity oregon different precious astir their speechmaking materials: "You don't person to work each book. Nobody has to work each publication connected Earth." That's true!

Originally Appeared connected Glamour