Kelly Ripa has hit back at Kathie Lee Gifford for throwing some shade at her and he upcoming memoir Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.

The memoir had some passages talking about Ripa’s strained relationship with the late Regis Philbin, her former Live! co-host.

Gifford, who was replaced as host in 2001 by Ripa had said about the book: “I went, ’I hope it isn’t true. I just hope it isn’t.’ Cause what’s the point? You know, I don’t get it, I don’t get it. I’m not gonna read the book. I haven’t read it. I don’t even know if it’s out yet.”

Gifford hosted Live! With Philbin from 1985 to 2000, and seemed to take issue with Ripa’s discussion of these difficulties after Philbin’s death in 2020.

“We were absolutely perfect together for television. We never had an argument, not an unkind

word in 15 years.