Kelly Ripa ribbed her former colleague, Ryan Seacrest, after a current flub at his new job as host of “Wheel of Fortune.”
The daytime discuss present star couldn’t assist however tease her former co-host when he appeared on ABC’s “Live with Kelly and Mark” to advertise his new kids’s e-book, “The Make-Believers,” along with his sister and co-author, Meredith Seacrest Leach, on Monday.
Inquiring about his new gig, Ripa playfully requested Seacrest, “Tell me about ‘Wheel of Fortune’ now. Have you learned how to spell?”
Though the previous cleaning soap opera actor was joking, others did marvel about Seacrest’s spelling abilities after he made a minor flub whereas internet hosting the sport present final week.
On Friday, the TV veteran appeared to freeze for a second after a contestant accurately solved one of many night’s puzzles.
As an alternative of immediately congratulating the competitor for his profitable reply, Seacrest provided a clumsy pause earlier than co-host Vanna White reduce by means of his silence with some gentle clapping.
Upon White’s sign, the sport present host replied, “Cody? That’s it!”
Laughing off the incident throughout his cease by “Live with Kelly and Mark,” Seacrest admitted he doesn’t “text well,” one thing he mentioned Ripa is aware of all too nicely.
“But on the puzzles I’m OK,” he added. “I kind of know where we’re going with the puzzles.”
“Because you have the answer in front of you, don’t you?” Ripa quipped.
The previous “American Idol” host shrugged and smiled as he replied, “I mean, either in my head or in front of me. It’s somewhere.”
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Seacrest made his “Wheel of Fortune” debut final month, following longtime host Pat Sajak’s retirement again in June.
After he was first introduced as the brand new host final 12 months, Ripa was desperate to razz her good friend about his texting talents.
“When Ryan Seacrest texts you, you say to yourself, ‘This person is trying to tell me something,’” she instructed White when she appeared on “Live with Kelly and Mark” final October. “That’s the first thing is that you realize that Ryan is trying to tell you something, but oftentimes, you just don’t know what that is.”
