{"id":93846,"date":"2022-10-11T14:24:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kathie-lee-griffin-speaks-against-kelly-ripas-regis-philbin-comments\/"},"modified":"2022-10-11T14:24:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:24:16","slug":"kathie-lee-griffin-speaks-against-kelly-ripas-regis-philbin-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kathie-lee-griffin-speaks-against-kelly-ripas-regis-philbin-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathie Lee Griffin speaks against Kelly Ripa&#8217;s Regis Philbin comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Kathie Lee Gifford on her new movie, her love life and her children's pandemic weddings\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Kathie Lee Gifford is speaking highly of her friendship with Regis Philbin, weeks after Kelly Ripa said she and her co-star&#8217;s friendship &#8220;didn&#8217;t really exist.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gifford worked with Philbin on &#8220;Live with Regis and Kathie Lee&#8221; from the late &#8217;80s to the turn of the millennium.  The 69-year-old media personality left the show with Philbin to work on her singing and acting career;  Ripa took over Gifford&#8217;s seat in 2001, turning the show into &#8220;Live! With Regis and Kelly.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Regis retired from the show after working with Ripa for a decade, but in 2017 he sparked feud rumors after saying Ripa was &#8220;very offended&#8221; when he left and that the two didn&#8217;t keep in touch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ripa recently set the record straight about her relationship with Philbin while promoting her newly released memoir &#8220;Live Wire.&#8221;  In a September interview the 52-year-old show host said feud rumors accusing her of abandoning Philbin were not true. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">&#8216;Live Wire&#8217;:<\/strong>Kelly Ripa says friendship with Regis Philbin &#8216;didn&#8217;t really exist&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It was somehow this false narrative that I had abandoned someone that I was very close to \u2013 that we were best friends and I had abandoned him,&#8221; Ripa told USA TODAY in September.  &#8220;And none of that was true. We had a very professional, working relationship.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gifford said her relationship with Philbin was &#8220;something completely different from that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"> &#8220;I was very sorry to see the headlines&#8221; from Ripa&#8217;s recent interviews, Gifford told New York City&#8217;s Fox 5 Monday.  &#8220;I&#8217;m not going to read the book, I haven&#8217;t read it.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">She added that for 15 years Philbin was &#8220;the best partner a person could ever have professionally, but he was my friend.&#8221; <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong class=\"gnt_ar_b_al\">More:<\/strong>5 reasons why Kathie Lee Gifford&#8217;s new memoir &#8216;It&#8217;s Never Too Late&#8217; will inspire you<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Gifford said she saw Philbin two weeks before he died in 2020 and that his wife, Joy Philbin, said Gifford&#8217;s visit was the last time she&#8217;d seen him laugh. <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;We were absolutely perfect together for television. We never had an argument. Not an unkind word in 15 years. That was my reality,&#8221; she said.  &#8220;In all the years I&#8217;ve known him I&#8217;ve never seen him unkind to anyone.&#8221; <\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img gnt_em_img__inset\"><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:301px\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/09\/25\/USAT\/7a29f53b-ebf8-4efe-ac65-d430fb6fde47-GTY_737859.jpg?ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2022\/09\/25\/USAT\/7a29f53b-ebf8-4efe-ac65-d430fb6fde47-GTY_737859.jpg?width=600&amp;height=602&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelly Ripa said that rumors that she and Regis Philbin had a feud was a &quot;false narrative.&quot;\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In her September interview, Ripa said telling her side of her relationship with Philbin gave her &#8220;a glimmer of hope&#8221; in getting rid of the rumor as she was &#8220;very careful&#8221; writing about it in &#8220;Live Wire.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I did not understand this need to vilify the woman always, and when it&#8217;s a two-person discussion, why isn&#8217;t it a two-person discussion?&#8221;  she asked. <\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I enjoyed listening to him tell his stories more than anyone. I loved that part of the show because it was not work at all. But to solely put the responsibility of maintaining a friendship that didn&#8217;t really exist (on me) \u2026 It&#8217;s just a very strange narrative that I found myself in that I couldn&#8217;t seem to get out of,&#8221; Ripa said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Contributing: Patrick Ryan<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/28\/USAT\/f449304d-3fab-4fcf-b1d8-734338e47794-AFP_AFP_1DU4V1.JPG?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2021\/04\/28\/USAT\/f449304d-3fab-4fcf-b1d8-734338e47794-AFP_AFP_1DU4V1.JPG?crop=4247,2389,x0,y215&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathie Lee Gifford is speaking highly of her friendship with Regis Philbin, weeks after Kelly Ripa said she and her co-star&#8217;s friendship &#8220;didn&#8217;t really exist.&#8221; Gifford worked with Philbin on &#8220;Live with Regis and Kathie Lee&#8221; from the late &#8217;80s to the turn of the millennium. The 69-year-old media personality left the show with Philbin &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kathie-lee-griffin-speaks-against-kelly-ripas-regis-philbin-comments\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kathie Lee Griffin speaks against Kelly Ripa&#8217;s Regis Philbin comments<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":101132,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/kelly-ripa-reacts-to-kathie-lee-gifford-criticizing-her-book-over-regis-philbin-chapter\/","url_meta":{"origin":93846,"position":0},"title":"Kelly Ripa reacts to Kathie Lee Gifford criticizing her book over Regis Philbin chapter","date":"October 18, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Kelly Ripa called out Kathie Lee Gifford for commenting negatively about her new book when the former Live! host never actually read it. 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