Kathie Lee Gifford shared a variety of feelings in a poignant Instagram publish about two essential folks in her life.
The previous Reside! With Regis and Kathie Lee co-host, 71, acknowledged that Saturday, August 9, was the tenth anniversary of her late husband Frank Gifford’s demise in 2015, along with being her former At the moment cohost Hoda Kotb’s 61st birthday.
“At the moment is a day for rejoicing! Initially, I rejoice for my treasured good friend, Hoda Mama, on the event of her Birthday,” Kathie Lee wrote. “She is likely one of the most spectacular folks I’ve ever identified and I am keen on her and I need all her goals to come back true.”
Kathie Lee then addressed the solemn anniversary of dropping her late husband Frank, who handed away from pure causes on August 9, 2015. (Kathie Lee and Frank had been married for 29 years and shared two kids: son Cody Newton, born in March 1990, and daughter Cassidy Erin, born in August 1993.)
Kathie Lee Gifford is cheering on Hoda Kotb as she prepares for her subsequent chapter after At the moment. “Bittersweet information as my expensive good friend @hodakotb steps away from the At the moment Present,” Gifford, 71, wrote by way of X on Friday, September 27. “Her heat, laughter, and unbelievable spirit have brightened our mornings and touched numerous hearts. Right here’s to […]
“The second factor that I rejoice about, is that my treasured husband, Frank, went residence to Jesus 10 years in the past at the moment and he has been at peace and stuffed with pleasure and glory since that very day. I discover consolation in that,” she wrote. “So, I’m rejoicing within the Lord and the way He cares for His family members, for His kids. Bless all of you at the moment. And I hope you could find the identical type of Shalom in your lives.”
The Gifford household introduced shortly after Frank’s demise that the previous NFL star suffered from “the debilitating results of head trauma,” together with Power Traumatic Encephalopathy (C.T.E.). Frank performed within the NFL for 12 seasons for the New York Giants, and later turned a sports activities analyst on ABC’s Monday Night time Soccer and Vast World of Sports activities.
Kathie Lee Gifford, Frank Gifford and Hoda Kotb. Ben Hider/Getty Pictures
“Over the last years of his life, Frank devoted himself to understanding the current revelations regarding the connection between repetitive head trauma and its related cognitive and behavioral signs — which he skilled firsthand,” the household informed The New York Times in November 2015.
Since Frank’s demise, Kathie Lee and her kids have turn out to be advocates for C.T.E. analysis. Frank was beforehand married to school sweetheart Maxine Avis Ewart — with whom he shared three kids — and health coach Astrid Lindley earlier than tying the knot with Kathie Lee in 1986.
In the meantime, Kathie Lee’s birthday tribute to her Hoda got here eight months after her longtime good friend and coworker give up NBC’s At the moment. (The duo cohosted the fourth hour of At the moment for 11 years earlier than Kathie Lee left the present in 2019. Hoda hosted her final Today show in January 2025.)
When Us Weekly requested Kathie Lee in June if she’d contemplate coming again to At the moment as Hoda’s replacement, the Daytime Emmy winner defined: “I’ve been again as a visitor actually because I’ve all the time received a brand new e book out or a brand new film or a brand new one thing that I’m engaged on.”
She continued, “I nonetheless have nice mates there. A number of the crew are nonetheless the identical. And I miss Hoda so, a lot. [But] I dwell in Tennessee more often than not now. I’ve for about seven years already.”
At the moment airs on NBC from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. ET.
