{"id":271404,"date":"2019-04-16T18:52:56","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1033298"},"modified":"2019-04-16T18:52:56","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T00:52:56","slug":"kathie-lee-gifford-says-shes-thrilled-over-hoda-kotbs-surprise-baby-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kathie-lee-gifford-says-shes-thrilled-over-hoda-kotbs-surprise-baby-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathie Lee Gifford Says She&#8217;s &#8221;Thrilled&#8221; Over Hoda Kotb&#8217;s Surprise Baby News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.659259259259\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.06455026455\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kathie_lee_gifford\">Kathie Lee Gifford<\/a><\/strong> is &#8220;thrilled&#8221; about the new addition to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hoda_kotb\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s family.<\/p>\n<p>The former <em>Today<\/em> host and legendary television personality couldn&#8217;t be happier for her longtime pal, who recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1033012\/today-s-hoda-kotb-adopts-baby-no-2-find-out-her-daughter-s-sweet-name\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced the exciting baby news<\/a> on Tuesday morning. &#8220;It&#8217;s a girl,&#8221; Kotb said cheerfully&nbsp;over the phone about her daughter, whom she secretly adopted, <strong>Hope Catherine Kotb<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Man, I&#8217;m so happy she&#8217;s here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Hoda&#8217;s older daughter,&nbsp;<strong>Haley Joy Kotb<\/strong>? She&#8217;s already bonding with her baby sister. &#8220;She was trying to feed her her raspberries and I was like, &#8216;Not yet, babe,'&#8221; Kotb shared, adding that&nbsp;Haley was marching around and letting people know she&#8217;s a big sister.<\/p>\n<p>Of Kotb&#8217;s surprise baby news, Gifford says she had a feeling &#8220;it was coming,&#8221; she just didn&#8217;t know when.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hoda&#8217;s a momma again. I&#8217;m thrilled about that,&#8221; she says during a live broadcast of FOX News Channel&#8217;s&nbsp;<em>The Five<\/em> (which also marks her first TV appearance since leaving <em>Today<\/em>).<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>She&nbsp;continues, &#8220;I knew that was coming, I just didn&#8217;t know when it was coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-3-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019226\/rs_1024x759-190326161844-1024.kathie-lee-gifford-hoda-kotb.ct.032619.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb\" alt=\"Kathie Lee Gifford, Hoda Kotb\" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Charles Sykes\/Invision\/AP<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.604693140794\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.241877256318\">\n<p>Since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1029975\/kathie-lee-gifford-tearfully-says-goodbye-to-hoda-kotb-and-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leaving <em>Today<\/em> in early April<\/a>, after being there for more than a decade, Gifford is ready for the next chapter in her life. For her, she wants to &#8220;make time&#8221; for &#8220;certain things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;d given my notice two years before because I knew it was time,&#8221; she says while on <em>The Five<\/em> in Nashville. &#8220;You know you run out of tick-tock in life and there are things I wanted to do and been dying to do and you just need to make time for certain things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gifford says she&#8217;s &#8220;been so blessed&#8221; to have worked on <em>Today<\/em> for 11 years, but felt &#8220;it was time&#8221; to move on.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>Right now, the legendary host wants to &#8220;hang out with people that love god, love my wine, love music, love our country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To that, we&#8217;ll cheers.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"33\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Don&#8217;t miss <em>E! 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The former Today host and legendary television personality couldn&#8217;t be happier for her longtime pal, who recently announced the exciting baby news on Tuesday morning. &#8220;It&#8217;s a girl,&#8221; Kotb said cheerfully&nbsp;over the phone about her daughter, whom she secretly adopted, Hope Catherine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-15 02:28:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}