Jim Gaffigan had one sole query for Kelly Clarkson whereas visiting her speak present on Tuesday: the place are your footwear?

The comic, 58, jokingly put the “Stronger” singer and TV host, 42, on blast after he observed that she was barefoot firstly of their interview on Tuesday, asking, “What’s going on with the ft?”

Gaffigan then started to jokingly speculate concerning the the explanation why Clarkson had left her footwear behind. “I really feel extra grounded after I sing if I’m barefoot,” he teased, adopting a higher-pitched voice. “I can really feel the bottom.”

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Because it seems, there was some fact to his teasing. “One of the best a part of that assertion and the way [much of a] device [I sound] is it’s true," a laughing Clarkson admitted. "That’s what I really say!”

Whereas the Grammy winner confessed that she does take pleasure in performing barefoot, she defined that there was a quite simple purpose for why she'd ditched her heels in the course of the present. “My ft damage,” Clarkson stated. “The stilettos I used to be presupposed to put on at the moment, I didn’t have sufficient center fingers for it… so I simply stated no. I’ve by no means gone barefoot earlier than, however that’s okay. That’s what we’re doing.”

Gaffigan, nonetheless, had some ideas on the shoeless state of affairs. “For me, initially, I wouldn’t have my ft uncovered as a result of I respect the viewers,” he stated. In response, Clarkson fortunately waved her legs within the air and quipped again, “And I don’t!”

He additionally famous that the foot-forward footage would possibly attract some new viewership. “There’s a portion of the web that’s going to like this present particularly," he teased, to which Clarkson replied, “I’m gonna get a complete new fanbase.”

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Whereas Clarkson’s choice to go barefoot may need taken Gaffigan without warning, this isn’t the primary time that the host has taken off her heels so as to get further cozy on set. She typically goes shoeless whereas filming her Kellyoke phase, together with throughout her covers of songs like Birdy’s “Quietly Yours,” and The Revivalists’ “It Was A Sin.”

Watch Clarkson and Gaffigan go toe-to-toe over footwear within the clip above.

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