Kelly Ripa has surprising reaction to Kathie Lee Gifford dissing her book

Kelly Ripa is unfazed by Kathie Lee Gifford’s diss.

The current “Live” host showed gratitude to her predecessor one week after the “Today” show alum said she was not going to read Ripa’s new book, “Live Wire: Long-Winded Short Stories.”

“I am a person that tends to take a negative and turn it into a positive,” Ripa, 52, said in Tuesday’s episode of the “Not Skinny But Not Fat” podcast, noting that Gifford’s comments only gave her latest release more “attention.”

She continued, “It’s really hard to sell a book, right? … So my ultimate comment is, ‘Thank you.’”

The former soap star noted that when readers check out her book, particularly the sections covering her and late “Live” co-host Regis Philbin’s power dynamic, she thinks they will “have a very different take” than Gifford.

“The comments I’ve gotten about those chapters have been overwhelmingly positive, and the people who read the book took away a lot of positivity from it,” she said.

Gifford, 69, slammed Ripa’s memoir two weeks after its Sept. 27 publication.

“I was very sorry to see the headlines [about Philbin],” Gifford, who co-hosted “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” for a decade before Ripa took over in 2001, told Fox 5’s Rosanna Scotto.

“You never know what’s true and what’s not true,” she continued. “I went, ‘I hope this isn’t true. I just hope it isn’t.’ Because what’s the point? I don’t get it. I don’t get it.”

In the book, Ripa alleges that Philbin referred to her as “it” and cleared up the “basic misconception” that the duo were friends outside of work.

Gifford and Ripa have shared different accounts of their time working with the late talk show host.

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Gifford and Ripa have shared different accounts of their time working with the late talk show host.

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Gifford and Ripa have shared different accounts of their time working with the late talk show host.

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