Kelly Ripa ribbed her former colleague, Ryan Seacrest, after a recent flub at his new job as host of “Wheel of Fortune.”
The daytime talk show star couldn’t help but tease her former co-host when he appeared on ABC’s “Live with Kelly and Mark” to promote his new children’s book, “The Make-Believers,” with his sister and co-author, Meredith Seacrest Leach, on Monday.
Inquiring about his new gig, Ripa playfully asked Seacrest, “Tell me about ‘Wheel of Fortune’ now. Have you learned how to spell?”
Although the former soap opera actor was joking, others did wonder about Seacrest’s spelling skills after he made a minor flub while hosting the game show last week.
On Friday, the TV veteran seemed to freeze for a second after a contestant correctly solved one of the evening’s puzzles.
Instead of instantly congratulating the competitor for his winning answer, Seacrest offered an awkward pause before co-host Vanna White cut through his silence with some light clapping.
Upon White’s signal, the game show host replied, “Cody? That’s it!”
Laughing off the incident during his stop by “Live with Kelly and Mark,” Seacrest admitted he doesn’t “text well,” something he said Ripa knows all too well.
“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 former “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 last month, following longtime host Pat Sajak’s retirement back in June.
After he was first announced as the new host last year, Ripa was eager to razz her friend about his texting abilities.
“When Ryan Seacrest texts you, you say to yourself, ‘This person is trying to tell me something,’” she told White when she appeared on “Live with Kelly and Mark” last 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.”