October 2, 2020
Watch: Kathie Lee Gifford Reacts to Seeing Her Son-In-Law's Bulge in Viral 'Family Feud' Vid
READ TIME: 2 MIN.
Kathie Lee Gifford is responding after seeing her son-in-law wearing tight pants during their appearance on "Celebrity Family Feud" in a clip that later went viral.
Gifford stopped by Andy Cohen's "Watch What Happens Live!" show this week – just days after Ben Wierda, who is married to Gifford's daughter Cassidy and happens to be the nephew of U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, went viral over the weekend when he was spotted on "Family Feud" in tight pants...exposing his bulge. A clip was shared on Twitter and it went viral.
Of course, Cohen didn't hesitate to bring up the moment to Gifford.
"Kathie Lee, before we go to break, I have to ask you," he said. "You were on 'Celebrity Family Feud' last week with your family. Have you seen the little moment that is going viral of your son-in-law realizing that his pants are incredibly tight?"
After rolling her eyes, Gifford had some fun with her answer to the Bravo host.
"Yes, I have seen it," she said, adding that she's happy Wierda isn't her actual son. "It's Cassidy's husband, whom I adore. But none of us realized it. We were playing the game, for goodness sakes and we get very, very excited about it, and –"
Cohen interrupted and said: "He looked like he was excited about it, too! That's what I'm saying!
"But she said to him, I guess, earlier before that whole thing started, she said, 'You're going to wear those on television? They're awfully tight.' And he goes, 'Oh, they're fine,'" Gifford said. "They woke up the next day after it aired the other day to this firestorm of publicity.
"It couldn't happen to two better [people] – he's an incredible, good guy," she went on to say. "And he's got one of the best – they've both have an outrageous sense of humor. We all do in our family. And all they've been doing is laughing about it ever since. So it's all good."
Watch Gifford on "WWHL" below.
