Kathie Lee Gifford Breaks Her Silence on Kelly Ripa’s Regis Philbin Claims in New Ebook

Kelly Ripa’s new e book has formally hit cabinets, however Kathie Lee Gifford received’t be selecting up a replica.

In Kelly’s memoir Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories, which dropped on September 27, the Technology Hole host opened up about every thing from starring on All My Kids the place she met her husband, Mark Consuelos, to internet hosting the daytime TV present Dwell for over 20 years. Within the latter portion, Kelly touched on her “sophisticated” relationship with one in every of her Dwell co-hosts, the late Regis Philbin.

Forward of the title’s launch, Kelly revealed to People particulars in regards to the “good and unhealthy days” working with Regis. “I do not need to really feel like I am slamming anybody or that I am being disrespectful. However I additionally need folks to comprehend it was not a cakewalk,” she advised the journal. “It took years to earn my place there and earn issues which can be routinely given to the boys I labored with. Together with an workplace and a spot to place my pc.”

Talking on Good Day New York, Kathie, who co-hosted with Regis for over a decade first on the New York-based program The Morning Present in 1985 and in a while Dwell With Regis and Kathie Lee in 1988, shared that she was shocked by Kelly’s feedback in regards to the late Who Needs to Be a Millionaire host.

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“I noticed that and I went, ‘Oh, I hope this is not true.’ I simply hope it is not, as a result of what is the level? I do not get it,” she said on the present. “I am not going to learn the e book. I have never learn it. I do not even know if it is out but. I simply know what Regis was to me.”

Kathie continued: “He was, for 15 years, the most effective accomplice an individual may ever, ever have professionally, however he was my buddy. We had been pricey associates and after I left the present, for the subsequent 20 years, we turned higher associates, dearer associates.”

Kathie and Regis co-hosted Dwell collectively for 12 years till Kathie departed in 2000. The following 12 months, Kelly was named Regis’s new co-star. The Kelly-Regis partnership lasted a decade till 2011. In July 2020, Regis died on the age of 88 from pure causes.

Kathie went on to clarify that her “first thought” when she learn the newest headlines was his household. “Lord, shield [his wife Joy Philbin] and the ladies from this,” she added. “In all of the years I knew him, I by no means noticed him unkind to anybody. I by no means did. If he appreciated you, he teased you.”

In keeping with Kelly, she struggled early on after becoming a member of the daytime discuss present. “The most important false impression is that all of it got here simply,” she told the outlet. “Individuals assume I simply confirmed up in the future and was handed a job and I lived fortunately ever after and now every thing’s good. However it by no means is that means.”

Over their time collectively although, Kelly says her relationship with Regis grew stronger on and off the stage. In the long run, she seems to be at her reminiscences with Regis fondly.

“If I may turn into a tenth nearly as good, I might be glad,” she later revealed to Individuals about his storytelling skills. “It is taking the viewers on a experience with you and remembering that you’re all the time the butt of the joke. I liked him and I nonetheless do.”