Kathie Lee Gifford is giving fans a candid update on her love life greater than a decade after the death of her late husband, Frank Gifford.
“I’m not dating anybody without delay, and I don’t want so far,” Kathie Lee, 44, said in an interview with People published on Tuesday, June 30. “I’m not looking, and I don’t think I’ll ever get married again.”
Frank died on August 9, 2015, one week before his eighty fifth birthday. The previous NFL player and Kathie Lee were married for 29 years, tying the knot in October 1986 and welcoming two children, son Cody, 35, and daughter Cassidy, 32, while they were together.
Kathie Lee met Frank when she worked at Good Morning America in 1982. They went through a rocky patch in 1997, when he publicly admitted he had been unfaithful. The previous TV host reconciled together with her husband and together they worked to “heal” their marriage.
While sharing her thoughts on potentially walking down the marriage aisle again, Kathie Lee said, “I had a chance for that to perhaps occur, and it didn’t work out.”
The previous Today host last dated Nashville-based businessman Richard Spitz from late 2021 until early 2024.
“Frank will at all times be the love of my life,” Kathie Lee said. “If God desires to do something miraculous, like give me one other great love [then I’m open to it]. And so I leave room for the miraculous to occur.”
Frank died of natural causes, although his family shared that he suffered from CTE, a progressive brain disease brought on by quite a few concussions and brain trauma.
“While Frank passed away from natural causes this past August on the age of 84, our suspicions that he was affected by the debilitating effects of head trauma were confirmed,” the Gifford family said in a November 2015 statement. “In the course of the last years of his life, Frank dedicated himself to understanding the recent revelations in regards to the connection between repetitive head trauma and its associated cognitive and behavioral symptoms — which he experienced firsthand.”
Kathie Lee Gifford’s grandma — or “Bubbe” — duties are growing as her son, Cody Gifford, is expecting his third baby with wife Erika Gifford. Alongside a video posted via Instagram on May 5, Erika — who already has two sons, Frankie, 3, and Ford, 18 months, with Cody, 35 — shared the completely happy news. […]
Nearly 4 years after his death, Kathie Lee exclusively told Us Weekly she was open to like.
“I don’t think you exit and find love; I believe that it finds you,” she told Us at her Today show farewell party in Latest York City in 2019. “I’m a lady of religion, so I also think that if God wants it, then he’ll bring it. Possibly I actually have [found love] already and just don’t understand it. We’ll see.”
Kathie Lee also spoke to Us about her journey with grief and the way she coped with the heartbreak.
“I used to be having a rough time [in the beginning],” she explained. “But I allowing myself to feel OK.”