Kathie Lee Gifford has no intention of revisiting another person’s previous.
The former “Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee” host, 69, whereas showing on “Fox 5 New York” this week, mentioned she’s going to ceaselessly maintain Regis Philbin close to and expensive and, in consequence, received’t learn “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories,” wherein successor Kelly Ripa reportedly describes extra ups and downs with the late tv icon.
“I was very sorry to see the headlines. … You never know what’s true and what’s not true. I was in Israel and I saw that and I went, ‘Oh, I hope this isn’t true.’ I just hope it isn’t, ‘cause what’s the point?” mentioned Gifford. “I’m not gonna read the book. I haven’t read it. … We were frick and frack. We were the odd couple. We were absolutely perfect together for television. We never had an argument, not an unkind word in 15 years. So that was my reality.”
Whatever the expertise of 52-year-old Ripa, Gifford mentioned: “I do 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,” continued Gifford. “Dearer friends.”
She famous that she “never saw” Philbin be “unkind to anyone” and that being on the receiving finish of his teasing meant he was keen on that individual.
“That was the reality. … I’m not gonna say anything ugly about anybody,” mentioned Gifford. “I never have and I’m not gonna start now. I’m just saying my reality’s something completely different from that.”
Ripa final month advised People that her chapter about Philbin was “the hardest chapter to write.”
Hosting “Live! With Regis and Kelly” — which she did for a decade, ending in 2011 — got here with “good and bad days,” and whereas didn’t need to be “disrespectful,” the expertise “was not a cakewalk.”
“The biggest misconception is that it all came easily,” she mentioned. “People think I just showed up one day and was handed a job and I lived happily ever after and now everything’s perfect. But it never is that way.”
Ripa did contend that she regards Philbin, who died in 2020 at age 88, “the world’s best storyteller: “I loved him. And I still do.”
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