News about Kathie Lee Gifford

The former TV host, who will turn 71 this week, appeared on Today on Tuesday morning and explained to Hoda, 60, how she had ended up in hospital at the end of July - just weeks after undergoing a hip replacement. Prior to her surgery, Kathie had been in 'horrible pain' for more than two years, and post-operation she was doing 'really, really well' and was still in physical therapy, but sadly set herself back when she had an accident at home last month.

Hoda, 60, was interviewing culinary journalist Amy Reiley about her book The Love Diet alongside then cohost Kathie Lee Gifford when she asked a rather shocking question. Instead of enquiring about the contents of Amy's book, Hoda decided to go straight in and grill her about the co-author of her book, Juan-Carlos Cruz.

Kathie Lee Gifford gave an update on her health on Wednesday after spending over a week in the hospital with a fractured pelvis. The 70-year-old entertainer - who recently revealed why she was turned down for Charlie's Angels - said she's happy to be home after being discharged from the hospital, where she ended up with a fractured pelvis in two places during her recovery from hip replacement surgery. 'I'm doing well!' the star told ET. 'I'm happy to be out of the hospital. As lovely as all those people are to me, they really took good care of me, but there's no place like home.'

Kathie Lee Gifford was recently hospitalized after suffering a fall amid her hip replacement surgery recovery. The TV host, 70, revealed to PEOPLE that she fractured her pelvis in two places after she tripped and fell at her home. Gifford - who underwent a 'total' hip replacement in June - remained in hospitalized for over a week so she could do physical therapy.

Sam Haskell IV, the Hollywood superagent's son accused of killing and dismembering his wife and also murdering her parents, appeared shirtless in court Thursday to face the Los Angeles judge who will decide if he will stand trial for the grisly slayings. Haskell, 36 - who has been on suicide watch at LA's notorious Twin Towers jail since his arrest eight months ago - was led into LA Superior Court shackled and bare-chested, just as he was at previous court appearances. Sporting a shorter haircut and a heavily-tattooed upper torso, Haskell kept looking around the courtroom during his brief appearance, as if searching for faces he would recognize. But there were no friends or family present.

Hoda Kotb was left red-faced during Thursday's episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna.

Kathie Lee Gifford is hoping to inspire people to remember their self-worth and never give up on dreams with her new book, I Want To Matter: Your Life Is Too Short And Too Precious To Waste. Among the dozens of stories used as anecdotes within the pages, the author, actress, and television personality recalled one incident in which she used comedy and laughter as a means to deal with a 'cruel' casting agent back in the summer of 1979. In a recent interview with People, Gifford (born Kathryn Lee Epstein) revealed that she once found out producers were looking to replace one of the three main actresses on Charlie's Angels, which she believed was Kate Jackson.

Back in 1997, news hit the web that former football player Frank had cheated on Kathie with a glamorous ex-flight attendant named Suzen Johnson. Now, the TV presenter, 70, has spoken out about how finding out about her husband's shock infidelity through the media completely shattered her world during a chat with Fox News. But she also explained why she decided to 'forgive' him, despite his betrayal, because she didn't want to 'break up their family.'

Kathie Lee Gifford revealed how her years-long feud with Howard Stern ended with a 'surprise' voicemail. The television personality, 70, opened up about the rift between her and the disc jockey, 70, in her new memoir, I Want to Matter: Your Life Is Too Short and Too Precious to Waste. She recalled how their beef previously started in 1995 when she sang the National Anthem at Super Bowl XXIX and heard boos from the audience.

This glamorous morning show host (pictured center) has been working as a reporter since 1988 when she joined ABC affiliate WQAD before becoming a weekend anchor and reporter at a CBS affiliate. For the next six years, this broadcaster lived in New Orleans, Louisiana, working as an anchor and reporter for CBS affiliate WWL and then officially joined NBC News in April 1998 as a correspondent for Dateline NBC and all NBC News platforms.

Jimmie Allen clarified the timeline of events that led up to him welcoming twins with 'friend' Danielle Rice and revealed he and wife Alexis Gale 'weren't together' at the time. The country singer, 38 - who announced he secretly welcomed twins last month in March without naming the mother at the time - opened up about the topic during a YouTube interview with Kathie Lee Gifford on Tuesday. Last month, it was also reported that the performer had fathered the twins with Rice when she was still legally wed to her husband of five years - causing Danielle's former partner a 'great deal of pain.' 

In a candid interview with ET, Kathie explained that one of the hardest topics to write in her new book, I Want to Matter: Your Life Is Too Short and Too Precious to Waste, was her husband's affair with flight attendant Suzen Johnson (seen inset). Although it has been nearly a decade since Frank passed away of natural causes, his affair with Suzen still brings her 'very painful' memories. 'My faith was definitely tested the most during the whole year dealing with Frank's infidelity because I thought that I had finally found my soulmate,' the mother-of-two explained.

Country singer Jimmie Allen tearfully recalled how he contemplated suicide 'every single day' after being accused of sexual assault by multiple women in 2023. While speaking to Kathie Lee Gifford about the allegations against him, the 38-year-old performer 'I was sitting there and I literally felt like the whole world had just collapsed,' the father-of-six told said during an April 24 YouTube video . 'Because the first thing my brain goes to is not the career, it's 'How am I going to provide for my kids?'' He continued: 'I had three then. I'm thinking to myself, how am I going to provide for my family? And then it hit me. My life insurance covered suicide.'

Kathie Lee Gifford, who lives in a world full of 'Nepo Babies,' has worked to keep her children out of the spotlight. In a New York Post interview, Emmy Award winner, 70, and her daughter Cassidy, 30, talked to the New York Post about how she and her late husband raised their children.

The former TV star, 70, and the football player, who passed away in 2015, lived in the seven-room duplex in the 1990s while she was serving as a host on Live! Regis and Kathie Lee appear in Regis and Kathie Lee. They sold it in 2001 after she left the show, but now it's up for auction once more. The home is located on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, between Second and First avenues. It includes three bedrooms, two complete bathrooms, and two-half bathrooms, as well as a large kitchen, formal dining room, large library, and gallery.

Sam Haskell IV appeared barefoot at his latest appearance in a downtown Los Angeles court. He has been accused of murdering Mei, her parents, and dismembering their bodies. At his last court visit in January, Haskell had pleaded not guilty to murdering his wife and her parents

Sam Haskell IV, the son of Hollywood superagent Sam Haskell IV, 35, has been charged with the murder of his wife, as well as her mother Yanking Wang, 64, and father Gaoshan Li, 72, who are still missing. At his arraignment in downtown Los Angeles, where he pleaded not guilty, he appeared naked on Friday. He was remanded without bail to downtown Men's Central Jail, and the judge called a preliminary hearing on February 16.

The headless torso discovered in a dumpster near Sam Haskell's office in Encino, northwest of Los Angeles, last month, has been identified as 37-year-old Mei Haskell. Both mother Yanking Wang, 64, and father, Gaoshan Li, 72, are still missing, and the son of a Hollywood super agent has been charged with murdering his wife and her parents.

Haskell appeared in arraignment hearing in Los Angeles on Friday wearing an anti-suicide velcro jacket that was pulled down off his chest at the beginning of the trial. He is accused of murdering Mei and her parents, who are still missing.

Kathie Lee Gifford is wrangling over the newest addition to the family's family. On Friday, the former Live!Susana Brown, co-host of Regis And Kathie Lee, welcomed her newborn grandchild, Cody Gifford and his wife Erika Brown's second child. 'Welcome to the family Ford Matthew Gifford (Japan) This is our Lord's gift,' she wrote. Ford is a brand new Ford.' 'Bubbe already adores you so much.'

Cody Gifford, Matthew Gifford's son, has welcomed his second child, together with his partner Erika Brown. In an Instagram post shared Wednesday, the couple announced their arrival with a first glance at the newborn's face. 'Introducing the newest love of our lives,' Ford Matthew Gifford wrote.'

Haskell, 35, the son of a Hollywood hotshot of the same name, has been charged with three counts of murder in connection with the disappearance of his wife Mei Haskell, 37, her mother, Yanxiang Wang, 64, and her father, Gaoshan Li, 72. One woman's headless body was discovered in a dumpster near his Encino, California, office this month, though others are still missing. His trial was postponed to December 8. If found guilty, he may face the death penalty. According to his ex-personal trainer Troy Piedade in May, new text messages show that he actually couldn't stomach the gore depicted in The Forever Purge. Because of the dismembered bodies, he didn't like the film. 'Fools really are getting chopped up in Mexico for real, but it's impossible for me to enjoy a film about it.' I'm down with purge 2 anarchy.'

Haskell, 35, who is believed to be his wife Mei, 37, has launched an investigation into the laborers after they reportedly turned away from two stations after they tried to report that they were almost tricked into dumping body parts for Haskell, 35. Haskell, the son of a Hollywood hotshot with the same name, is accused of paying the employees $500 to dump heavy bags of what he described as 'trash and rocks,' as he told them. However, when the 50-pound bags looked soft and soggy like beef, they became suspicious, so they opened one up and were horrified to find a belly button inside. They returned the bags and money to Haskell's Tarzana home, but they were redirected from one California police station and turned away from the second one due to a language barrier.

Mei Haskell's friends told DailyMail.com that she told them for years that she wanted to divorce her husband Samuel Haskell IV, 35. One friend feared that her husband would take away the children with the help of his extremely wealthy and influential father.' Haskell, a producer of low-budget slasher films from Tarzana, California, was charged in court on Monday with the murder of his wife and her parents.