Kathie Lee Gifford bids a tearful farewell to ‘Today’ and cohost Hoda Kotb
“I feel like we’ll be friends.” That’s what Kathie Lee Gifford said to Hoda Kotb when the “Today” hosts first met, and Kotb was simply blown away by the woman she was meeting. “I don’t know if you’ve ever had that chemistry where you connect with someone like that,” Kotb said in a tearful “Today” segment celebrating their 11-year friendship, which ends professionally Friday. Sometimes things that intense can’t last, but this did, and it’s amazing.” As Gifford departs the “Today” show Friday, she’ll leave Kotb behind to pick up the reins with new partner Jenna Bush Hager starting Monday. Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb’s bubbly hour of ‘Today’ was fueled by love, not booze » “I hope she knows how much I love her,” Gifford said of Kotb, dabbing away tears.
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