Kelly Ripa reacts to Kathie Lee Gifford’s rejection of the book

Kelly Ripa is adamant about Kathie Lee Gifford’s diss.

The current Live presenter showed gratitude to her predecessor a week after an alum at Today said she was not going to read Ripa’s new book, Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.

“I am the kind of person who has a tendency to take negatives and turn them into positives,” said 52-year-old Ripa in the Tuesday episode Podcast “Not skinny, but not fat”noting that Gifford’s comments only brought her attention to the latest edition.

She continued, “It’s really hard to sell a book, isn’t it? … So my final comment is “Thank you.”

The former soap star noticed that when readers checked her book, especially the sections about her and her deceased co-host of Live Regis Philbin’s Power Dynamicsbelieves they will “have a completely different approach” to Gifford.

“The comments I received on these chapters were overwhelmingly positive, and people who read the book found her a lot of positivity,” she said.

Gifford, 69, slammed Ripa’s diary two weeks after its publication on September 27.

“I’m so sorry about the headlines [about Philbin]”Said Gifford, who co-hosted” Live with Regis and Kathie Lee “for a decade before Ripa took over in 2001, said Rosanna Scotto of Fox 5.

“You never know what is true and what is not,” she continued. “I went: ‘I hope that’s not true. I just hope that’s not the case. What for? I don’t understand. I do not understand this.”

In the book, Ripa claims that Philbin called her “it” and explained the “basic misconception” that the duo were friends outside of work.

“I wish I’d set a real-time record,” recently explained in “Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen”, adding that she had previously been told to “follow the road”.

Alum “Hope and Faith” quipped, “As women are often told to follow the road and women say,” Shut the fuck up. “

As for Gifford, she called Philbin, who died in July 2020 at the age of 88, “Best Partner” earlier this month.

The Daytime Emmy winner said, “He was my friend. We were close friends, and after quitting the show … for the next 20 years we became better friends, more expensive friends. “