• Kathie Lee Gifford left the Today show on Friday, April 5.
• After her last day, KLG moved to Nashville, Tennessee where
she bought a new home.
• Jenna Bush Hager replaced Kathie Lee for Today's fourth-hour
program.
• Kathie Lee Gifford will appear on Today with Hodi and Jenna
on November 12 to give an
Update on her life.
Today show star Kathie
Lee Gifford jumped on a plane and headed south after April 5 — a.k.a. her last
day on the NBC morning program.
As reported by The
Tennessean this past spring, Kathie Lee purchased a home (through her company,
Widow's Peak Pictures) in Franklin, Tennessee, located about 20 miles south of
Nashville. In August, KLG was spotted hanging out in her new town.
“Even if you’re just having
a dinner party there, invariably people end up at your piano or taking your
guitar off the wall, and next thing you know, you’ve written a song and you’re
in the studio the next week doing a demo,” Kathie Lee previously told People
about her decision to relocate.
Why did she leave New
York? Kathie Lee previously said that her gig co-hosting with Hodi Kolb was the
only thing keeping her in the Northeast. Since her husband Frank Gifford's
death in 2015, and her mom's passing in 2017, Kathie Lee has felt
"lonely" over the past few years. Her two kids — Cody, 29, and
Cassidy, 25 — currently live in Los Angeles.
“The work that I want to
do isn’t here anymore,” Kathie Lee revealed to the outlet about living in New
York City and her home in Greenwich, Connecticut. “I am an artist, I’m an
actress, I’m a writer, I’m a songwriter, a director now. That’s the stuff that
feeds my soul and I know that I’m running out of time to do those things.”
Jenna Bush Hager ended
up replacing Kathie Lee on the fourth hour of Today, and the feedback
surrounding the decision has been nothing but positive, including from Kathie
Lee herself.
"You keep trusting
your instincts and you’re going to sit next to the best person in the whole
world because she has your back," Kathie Lee told Jenna in February.
"Because she has your heart. It’s going to be fun. You guys are going to
have a ball.”
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