Kathie Lee Gifford "doesn't see the point" in reading Kelly Ripa's memoir and insists Regis Philbin was never "unkind."
Kathie Lee Gifford has refused to read Kelly Ripa's memoir.
The 69-year-old star co-hosted 'Live' with Regis Philbin in the 1990s but has no interest in the new autobiography by Kelly - who later took over from Kathy on the talk show - because of the rumoured revelations it contains about their late mutual co-star.
She said: "I'm not gonna read the book. I haven't read it. I don't even know if it's out yet. 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."
The 'Today' show host went on to explain that she and Regis - who died of a heart attack at the age of 88 in 2020 - had a special friendship and that she "never" saw him treat anyone unkindly.
Speaking on 'Good Day New York', she added: "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.
"In all the years I knew him, I never saw him unkind to anyone. I never did. If he liked you, he teased you."
Meanwhile, Kelly recently confessed that her relationship with her late co-host was a complicated one but didn't want to feel as if she was "slamming" anyone in 'Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories'.
She shared: "There were good and bad days. 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."
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