7 June 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\nKathie Lee Gifford was told she wasn’t “pretty” enough to be an actress.<\/p>\n
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Kathie Lee Gifford was once told by a casting agent that she wasn’t pretty enough<\/p>\n
\nThe 70-year-old star – who is best known for career hosting TV shows such as ‘Today’ and ‘Live with Regis and Kathie Lee’ – explained that she had heard that ‘Charlie’s Angels’ producers were looking for a new star in the late 1970s and she wanted to be a part of it, but a casting agent at the time told her she wasn’t “right” for the hit crime drama series because of her looks. <\/p>\n
\nShe told People: “She goes, ‘Let me tell you right now, you’re not right for ‘Charlie’s Angels’…because we’re looking for a pretty girl. You know, like Jaclyn Smith pretty, gorgeous, gorgeous’.”<\/p>\n
\n“It was like kicking me to the gut. I started to think it was funny. I really did.”<\/p>\n
\nThe TV star then explained that she quickly learned to see the incident in good humour and made a joke to the casting director on her way out.<\/p>\n
\nShe said: “And as I’m walking out, I looked at her and I said, ‘Okay, well, thank you so much.<\/p>\n
\n“I said, ‘When you’re casting a cartoon,’ and I threw up my leg. ‘When you’re casting a cartoon, let me know,'” she continues. “I left thanking God that I could laugh about it.”<\/p>\n
\nKathie alleged that the “cruel” agent did not apologise for her comments and still remembers her name all these years later. <\/p>\n
\nShe said: “I started to see, first of all, what a bitch she was. What an unnecessary b***** she was. She didn\u2019t say ‘Sorry, honey, have a nice life. You’re not what we’re looking for.’ <\/p>\n
\n“She had to be cruel. She had to be the exact opposite of what my dad taught me to be. The fact that I remember her name to this day is because she was so cruel.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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