She remaining and in no way looked again.
Kathie Lee Gifford left the “Today” demonstrate five decades ago on April 5, 2019 – and has not watched considering that.
Gifford started on the NBC morning show in 2008 with Hoda Kotb. She and Kotb worked alongside one another until finally April 2019 when Gifford stepped down from her place and was later replaced by Jenna Bush Hager.
“I want to know what’s going on in this earth, but I really do not want it in the ‘Today’ exhibit type of way. Just give me the details, folks,” Gifford advised The Post.
When asked if she even now keeps in get in touch with with Kotb, Gifford replied: “I just was texting with her yesterday. I necessarily mean, she will often, constantly be a pretty pricey friend of mine.”
In January, Kotb gushed about her very good friend to The Write-up.
“By the way, Kat’s living her most effective existence,” Kotb, 59, explained at the time. “She’s in Nashville, she’s producing songs, she is residing her very best life. She’s enjoying with the cutest grandkids, placing out good audio, so Kat, like you.”
Gifford bought her begin on television even though co-hosting alongside Regis Philbin on “Live with Regis and Kathie Lee” from 1985 to 2000. Kelly Pipa would later on consider above her place.
The pair remained close until finally Philbin’s dying at the age of 88 in July 2020.
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“I stayed 15 several years with Regis mainly because I was in like with him. And I stayed 11 a long time with Hoda mainly because I was in love with her and I,” Griffin told the Post. “I was wonderful. I sense like I was 1 of the most blessed men and women in the environment to be in a position to operate with two this sort of extraordinary men and women.”
Like the “Today” demonstrate, Gifford never ever watched the ABC system soon after her exit. “Live with Kelly and Mark” is currently helmed by Ripa and her spouse, Mark Consuelos.
“You know what. I in no way watched Regis immediately after I still left our present. I never viewed the ‘Today’ exhibit as soon as I left,” Gifford told The Put up.
She expressed that she does not skip daytime television and doesn’t think she will ever return.
“My soul was dying a slow death in the Northeast for the past 20 several years or so, seeing the society adjust as considerably as it has and not just in New York, but LA, Seattle, wonderful San Francisco, some of these big, lovely cities. I don’t even figure out them any more,” Gifford reported.
Gifford moved to Nashville, Tenn., just after stepping away.
“There’s a tradition of kindness here in the South. It’s just remarkable,” she told Fox News recently. “And I needed it. I essential it.”
Gifford had two youngsters with her late spouse, Frank Gifford. Her son, Cody, 33, is a producer and her daughter Cassidy, 30, is a model and actress. Kathie Lee is also a grandmother of a few.
She’s acted and manufactured several films considering that leaving daytime Tv guiding, notably crafting and starring in “Then Came You” and Hallmark Channel’s “A Godwink Christmas” in 2018.
Much more lately, Kathie Lee wrote and directed the 2019 short musical, “The God Who Sees,” and at this time pops up in her daughter’s new series “The Baxters,” which premiered on Key Video clip on March 28.
She plays Lillian Ashford, Elizabeth Baxter’s (Roma Downey) close friend who loses her son in a auto incident. Cassidy, for her portion, stars as Reagan Decker, the appreciate curiosity of Luke Baxter (Josh Plasse).
