Kelly Ripa's Reaction to Kathie Lee Gifford Saying She Won't Read Her Book Is Unexpected!

Kelly Ripa had an unexpected reaction to Kathie Lee Gifford saying she won’t be reading her book due to what was written about both of their former Live! co-host, Regis Philbin.

The book, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories,” is currently available to purchase.

Kelly talked about her complicated relationship with Regis in the book after working with him for a decade on Live! with Regis and Kelly.

“There were good and bad days,” Kelly said in her book about co-hosting with Regis. “I don’t want to feel like I’m slamming anyone or that I’m being disrespectful. But I also want people to know it was not a cakewalk. It took years to earn my place there and earn things that are routinely given to the men I worked with. Including an office and a place to put my computer.”

Kathie Lee talked to Good Day New York on Monday (October 10) and talked about Kelly‘s book.

“I’m not gonna read the book. I haven’t read it. I don’t even know if it’s out yet,” she said. “I just know what Regis was to me. He was, for 15 years, the best partner a person could ever, ever have professionally, but he was my friend.”

“We were dear friends and after I left the show, for the next 20 years, we became better friends, dearer friends. I saw him two weeks before he died and the minute I found out he had passed, I got in my car and drove to their house,” she added.

“I was really sorry to see the headlines,” Kathie Lee said about seeing Kelly‘s book being promoted. “I saw that and I went, ‘Oh, I hope this isn’t true.’ I just hope it isn’t, because what’s the point? I don’t get it. In all the years I knew him, I never saw him unkind to anyone. I never did. If he liked you, he teased you.”

Now, Kelly was asked about her reaction to what Kathie Lee said.

Click inside to find out…