Kathie Lee Gifford nonetheless remembers a casting agent’s insult from earlier in her profession.
Talking with Individuals about her new guide, I Need to Matter: Your Life Is Too Brief and Too Treasured to Waste, Gifford recalled being abruptly advised she wasn’t fairly sufficient to star in ABC’s Charlie’s Angels tv collection.
The previous At the moment TV host writes concerning the energy of forgiveness and kindness in her new guide. She gave one instance the place she acquired a brutal slam.
When she arrived on the casting workplace for an interview, she was given a fast heave-ho from an agent.
“She goes, ‘Let me let you know proper now, you’re not proper for Charlie’s Angels,’” Gifford mentioned.
When she requested why, the agent spat, “As a result of we’re searching for a reasonably lady. You realize, like Jaclyn Smith: fairly, beautiful, beautiful.”
A surprised Gifford began to go away, however then responded.
“I mentioned, ‘While you’re casting a cartoon,’ and I threw up my leg. ‘While you’re casting a cartoon, let me know.’ I left, thanking God that I may snicker about it.”
Gifford now has some perspective on the incident.
“I began to see, to start with, what a bitch she was. What an pointless bitch she was. She didn’t say ‘Sorry, honey, have a pleasant life. You’re not what we’re searching for.’ She needed to be merciless. She needed to be the precise reverse of what my dad taught me to be. The truth that I bear in mind her identify to this present day is as a result of she was so merciless.”