Kathie Lee Gifford has put her talk show webhosting days at the back of her, and she’s unlikely to go back.
“I shouldn't have lasted one day in today’s international on my show with Regis [Philbin] or my show with Hoda [Kotb] in this international where you got to watch what you say,” Gifford, 70, solely instructed Us Weekly earlier this month whilst discussing her position on The Baxters. “I’ve made a dwelling not watching what I say.”
Gifford and Philbin, who died in July 2020, cohosted Live With Regis and Kathie Lee (originally titled The Morning Show) from 1985 to 2000. While Philbin remained on Live with then-new host Kelly Ripa, Gifford made the move from ABC to NBC. She joined Kotb, now 59, as an anchor of the 10 a.m. hour of the Today show. After Eleven years, Gifford retired from Today in 2019, and Jenna Bush Hager took over her seat.
Kathie Lee’s daughter, Cassidy Gifford, further advised Us that her mother’s filter “has grow to be very weak” in recent years.
Kathie Lee’s outspoken personality could also be part of the reason she wouldn’t want to join ABC’s The Golden Bachelorette by-product in spite of Kotb and Bush Hager, 42, fervently advocating for her casting.
“I don’t think they know me anymore,” Kathie Lee joked to Us. “That came as a big wonder to me. I don’t see that taking place in the future. Not that it couldn’t, but it might need to be an excessively, very other kind of show than they do.”
Bachelor Nation producers introduced a “golden” derivative in 2023, starring 72-year-old Gerry Turner. After he discovered love and married Theresa Nist in January, ABC greenlit a Golden Bachelorette spinoff.
“You get diseases when you get in hot tubs, you know what I’m saying? People will have to be way more cautious, and I don’t know where the ones lips had been on all the ones guys, so I’d be way more careful than the ones different ladies are,” Kathie Lee quipped. “They just get in the new tub, get far and wide each and every different and get in mattress, and I’m going, ‘They don’t even know your middle name.’ So, I don’t see that I’m going to be part of that anytime soon.”
Cassidy, whom Kathie Lee shared with past due husband Frank Gifford alongside son Cody Gifford, also stressed out that it is a “onerous no” to watch her mom on The Golden Bachelorette.
While Kathie Lee and Cassidy, 30, are straying from reality TV in the intervening time, they have teamed up on Prime Video’s scripted series The Baxters. The limited collection, which premieres later this month, was once tailored from Karen Kingsbury’s novels. (Kathie Lee will probably be a visitor big name, and Cassidy is a ordinary player.)
“[I sought after] to be part of one thing that might give other people hope and that will show the true side of a Christian family and what they undergo,” Cassidy informed Us. “I think so continuously it’s so cookie-cutter and so clichéd when it’s depicted in the media, and you know why some people don’t even need to go near it. They think it’s in order that saccharine and so they’re going to feel like they’re judged.”
According to Cassidy, The Baxters is a “faith-forward” show but is “still uncooked” and “gritty.”
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“It presentations folks in their true state and that we all screw up,” Cassidy added. “And I think that used to be essential as a result of I do assume that attracts other folks in a lot more than what’s out there already.”
The Baxters premieres on Prime Video Thursday, March 28.
With reporting by Christina Garibaldi
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