Kathie Lee Gifford He shared a number of emotions in a moving Instagram post about two very important people in his life.
The first Live! With Rec and Kathie Lee The 71-year-old co-amfitrio acknowledged that on Saturday, August 9, it was the tenth anniversary of his late husband Frank GiffordThe death of 2015, as well as being his previous Today cohost BanquetThe 61st birthday.
“Today is a day to rejoice -me! First, I’m glad for my beautiful friend, Hoda Mama, on the occasion of her birthday,” Kathie Lee write. “He is one of the most spectacular people I have met and I adore it and I want all his dreams to come true.”
Kathie Lee then turned to the solemn anniversary of losing his late husband Frank, who died of natural causes on August 9, 2015 (Kathie Lee and Frank married for 29 years and shared two children: son Cody NewtonBorn in March 1990, and daughter Cassidy Erin, born in August 1993.)
Kathie Lee Gifford is encouraging Hoda Kotb while preparing for his next chapter after today. “Awear news like my dear friend @hodakotb is away from the Today program,” Gifford, 71, wrote on Friday, on Friday, September 27. “Their heat, their laughter and their incredible spirit have lit our mornings and have touched countless hearts. Here it is in (…)
“The second that I am glad is that my beautiful husband, Frank, returned home to Jesus 10 years ago and has been in peace and has been full of joy and glory from that same day. I find comfort in this,” he wrote. “So, I’m glad of the Lord and the way he cares about his loved ones, for his children. Bless you all today. And I hope you can find the same kind of fool in your lives.”
The Gifford family announced shortly after Frank’s death that the former NFL star suffered “the weakening effects of head trauma”, including chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Frank played the NFL for 12 seasons for the New York Giants, and then became a sports analyst at ABC’s Monday night’s football and Spacious sports world.
Kathie Lee Gifford, Frank Gifford and Hoda Kotb.
Ben Hider/Getty Images“During the last years of his life, Frank devoted himself to understanding the recent revelations about the connection between the trauma of the repetitive head and its associated cognitive and behavioral symptoms, which he experienced first hand,” the family said. The New York Times In November 2015.
Since Frank’s death, Kathie Lee and his children have become proponents of CTE research. Frank previously married the university affectionate Maxine Avis Ewart – with whom he shared three children and fitness coach Astrid Lindley Before tie the knot with Kathie Lee in 1986.
Meanwhile, Kathie Lee’s birthday tribute to her Hoda arrived eight months after her very long time friend and coworker left NBC’s Today. (Duo cohost the fourth hour of Today For 11 years before Kathie Lee left the program in 2019. Hoda welcomed its final Today show In January 2025.)
Whenever Use weekly asked Kathie Lee in June if you would consider returning to Today As a replacement of HodaEmmy’s day winner explained: “I’ve been invited often because I always have a new book or a new movie or a new thing I’m working on.”
She continued: “I still have great friends there. Many of the crew are still the same. And I miss Hoda, so much. (But) I live in Tennessee most of the time. I am about seven years old.
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