Kathie Lee Gifford has been opening up about her love life, admitting that she nonetheless hangs out along with her unnamed ex, who she cut up from in April 2024 after a number of years of relationship.
Talking to Folks on the QVC Celebrates Launch Of Q50 Age Of Chance Platform in Santa Monica, California, on Wednesday (Could 14), the 71-year-old TV host stated she isn’t considering relationship proper now and is glad merely hanging out along with her ex as mates.
“No, I’m not,” she stated when requested if she’s about leaping again into the relationship pool. “I had an unbelievable marriage and was in a relationship that I assumed could be the final considered one of my life, the love of the remainder of your life, and that didn’t work out.”
The previous At the moment co-host added, “However I used to be with him all day yesterday, we’re nonetheless nice mates… We had been collectively virtually three years, and it simply wasn’t meant to be eternally. However we love one another, so that you simply take a day at a time.”
Gifford has been married twice, first to composer Paul Johnson from 1976 to 1983. She then tied the knot with NFL participant and soccer commentator Frank Gifford in 1986 and was with him till his passing in 2015. They’d two kids collectively, Cody Newton Gifford (born March 22, 1990) and Cassidy Erin Gifford (born August 2, 1993).
Frank Gifford and Kathie Lee Gifford; Neilson Barnard/Getty Photos
The Emmy-winning host confessed that she doesn’t “love flippantly,” noting, “I’ve solely been in love 3 times in my life and the primary two are useless. So, [the ex] is mainly all I’ve obtained. We’re again to being nice mates and it’s excellent…. He’s a doll.”
Gifford isn’t fully closing the door on a brand new man, saying, “And if the Lord brings me any person else, that’s high quality too. I’m not a determined girl.”
“My husband’s been gone now for 10 years, and widowhood just isn’t one thing I like to recommend until you hate your husband,” she added. “It’s not a membership anyone needs to affix in the event that they love their husband. However when you hate his guts, you’re relieved.”
Gifford has remained non-public concerning the identification of her ex, solely referring to him as a “very particular man.”
On the time of their separation final 12 months, she informed Folks, “My new mantra was going to be my pleasure is non-negotiable. I’ll negotiate time. I’ll negotiate cash with you. However my pleasure, I can’t. I used to be in a relationship for a number of years that simply ended just lately. And you understand, it’s all the time arduous as a result of while you love somebody, you like somebody deeply. It’s one thing you miss when it doesn’t final.”