Nobody’s perfect not evenRyan Seacrest.
“I was so nervous I was going to screw it up that I read the questionandthe answer.”
“He gave away the answer,” Ripa adds.

Ryan Seacrest reveals he shut down Kelly Ripa’s new game show ‘Generation Gap’ for 45 minutes after massive mistake.Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images
“And then it was panic on the set,” he finishes.
Ripa starts cracking up laughing about how “he had one thing to say” and still messed up.
“It’s tragic,” Seacrest adds.
“He screwed it up and the lawyers went into lawyer mode,” Ripa says.
“I’m going to give it away because it’s no longer in the show.
All he had to say is, ‘This isAmerican… And he said, and I quote, ‘This isAmerican Idol.’
Watch a clip from their interview below:
Generation Gappremieres Thursday at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.