Kathie Lee Gifford ready to make TV comeback with her own talk show just one year after quitting Today
TODAY alum Kathie Lee Gifford is "seriously talking" about a return to TV.
The 67-year-old has not been seen on live TV as a host of a show since she left Today in April 2019.
But insiders close to Kathie have told The Sun that she "knows what she’d want the show to look and be like," and is now working on the specific details.
The source shared: "Kathie Lee is seriously talking about a return to TV but not aiming to go back to another morning show again.
"She wants to do a talk show, with a male cohost, and she already has one in mind.
"Kathie Lee knows what she’d want the show to look and be like but is trying to figure out a network/home for it now."
Her career took off in the 1970s but it was in the mid-1980s that she found national fame as the co-host of The Morning Show with Regis Philbin which went national in 1988 as Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee.
She left in 2000 but returned to morning TV in 2008 with Hoda Kotb on Today. Together they saw ratings rise and in 2019 they won the daytime Emmy award for Informative Talk Show Host.
Kathie - a mom of two - is also focusing on her film career, admitting in 2019 she wants to make feature film for people who have lost loved one.
Then Came You, with Elizabeth Hurley, was released in October, and she also worked with Hallmark on a Christmas film in 2019.
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Her production company Widow's Peak Pictures has many others in pre-production.
In 2015 Kathie's husband Frank died of natural causes at the age of 84.
She said at the time: "Frank had been very sick for several years before he passed and when Frank did see Jesus and went straight to heaven, I had such closure."
She is now thought to be romancing insurance agent Randy Cronk, 56, from Spring Hill, Tennessee, just outside her home town of Nashville.