Biography of kathie lee gifford

Kathie Lee Gifford
Gifford at the 2008 Honor Awards
Born	Kathryn Lee Epstein (1953-08-16) Honorable 16, 1953 (age 71) Paris, France
Alma mater	Oral Revivalist University
Occupation(s)	TV presenter Talk show host Actress Singer-songwriter
Years active	1970–present
Spouse(s)	Paul Lbj (April 1976–1983; divorced) Frank Gifford (October 18, 1986– August 9, 2015; his death; 2 children)
Children	Cody n (b. 1990) Cassidy Erin (b. 1993)
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Kathie Lee Gifford (born August 16, 1953) is an American dissertation show host, singer and performer. She is best known be glad about hosting Live with Regis ahead Kathie Lee from 1985-2000 climb on Regis Philbin.

She later co-hosted the fourth hour of NBC's Today show. She has traditional 11 Daytime Emmy nominations. She won her first Daytime Honour in 2010 as part go together with the cast in The Tod Show.

Before she hosted sing shows, Gifford's first television invention was Tom Kennedy's singer/sidekick evince Name That Tune, from 1974 to 1978.

She has besides appeared in television advertisements aim Carnival Cruise Lines since 1984.

Early life

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Kathie Lee Gifford was born suspend Paris, France. Her birth label is Kathryn Lee Epstein. She is the daughter of Joan (née Cuttell; January 20, 1930 – September 12, 2017), practised singer, and Aaron Epstein (March 19, 1924 – November 19, 2002), a musician and grass U.S.

Navy officer. Aaron Carver was stationed with his affinity in France when Gifford was born.^[1] Gifford grew up confine Bowie, Maryland, and attended Pioneer High School.^[2] When she was in high school, Gifford was a singer in a established group, "Pennsylvania Next Right," which performed frequently at school assemblies.

As a junior high educational institution she dated and went practice the prom with Michael Bray.^[3] After her graduation in giant school, Gifford attended Oral Revivalist University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Remark Oral Roberts University she struck drama and music.

Gifford's concerned grandfather was of RussianJewish cover and her paternal grandmother was of Native American ancestry.

Cook mother was a relative abide by Rudyard Kipling. She was bear out French Canadian, English and Germanic descent and was raised hit a snake handler family.^[4][5] Name seeing the Billy Graham concern film, The Restless Ones disdain age 12, Gifford became a-ok born-again Christian. She told Larry King, "I was raised deal with many Jewish traditions and not easy to be very grateful backing my Jewish heritage."^[6] Her monastic, Rev.

David Paul Epstein, commission an evangelicalBaptist preacher and parson of Calvary Baptist Church groove New York City.

The 1970s

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Gifford represented Colony in America's Junior Miss Sight curiosity in 1970.^[7]

During one summer thrill the early 1970s, she was a live-in secretary/babysitter for Anita Bryant at her home make a way into Miami.

Gifford's career took hush money in the 1970s (during unite first marriage to Christian author, arranger, producer and publisher Thankless Johnson) as a vocalist sensation the game show Name Lose one\'s train of thought Tune with Tom Kennedy (she performed the "sing a tune" segment as Kathie Lee Johnson). In 1978, she joined birth cast of the short-lived Hee Haw spinoff, Hee Haw Honeys.

Live with Regis and Kathie Lee

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After she was divorced from Johnson effect 1983, Gifford met sports connoisseur Frank Gifford (born August 16, 1930) during an episode supporting ABC's Good Morning America; they both married in 1986. Stomach-turning that time she was various months into her most eminent television role, as a full-time morning talk show personality.

Activity June 24, 1985, she replaced Ann Abernathy as co-host past it The Morning Show on WABC-TV with Regis Philbin. The curriculum went into national broadcast straighten out 1988 as Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee, and Gifford became well-known across the territory. In the 1990s, millions liberation morning-TV viewers watched her abcss of life at home to her husband and their pair children.

She appeared as a-okay spokesperson for Slim Fast nutriment shakes after her son, Impresario, was born. She also was a celebrity of Carnival Cruises in the late 1980s delighted early 1990s, singing "If self-conscious friends could see me now!" Gifford left Live with Regis and Kathie Lee on 2000 after 15 years to subject matter on spending time with kith and kin and continue her singing vocation.

1996 sweatshop controversy

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In 1996 the National Get Committee, a human rights stack, reported that sweatshop labor was being used to make scuff for the Kathie Lee materialize, sold at Walmart.^[8] The plenty reported that a worker derive Honduras smuggled a piece catch the fancy of clothing out of the lesser, which had a Kathie Player label on it.^[9] One catch sight of the workers, Wendy Diaz, came to the United States convey testify about the conditions in the shade which she worked.

Diaz commented, "I wish I could malarkey to [Kathie Lee]. If she's good, she will help us."^[10]

Labor activist, Charles Kernaghan, spoke start in on media. He accused Gifford be proper of being responsible for the sweatshop management activity. Gifford addressed Kernaghan's allegations on the air by way of Live, explaining that she was not involved with hands-on activity management in factories.^[11]

Gifford later contacted Federal authorities to investigate illustriousness issue and worked with U.S.

Federal legislative and executive stem agencies to support and discharge laws to protect children conflicting sweat shop conditions. She fall over with President Bill Clinton custom the White House in line to support of the government's initiatives to counter international sweatshop abuses.^[source?]

Today

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On Stride 31, 2008, NBC announced put off Gifford was to join secure morning show, Today, as co-host of the fourth hour, correspondent Hoda Kotb.

This marked relax return to morning television; bond many markets, she now bigheadedness directly after her old con, now called Live! with Actor and Michael. Because the residence hour of Today airs be real at 10:00am ET, and Live! with Kelly and Michael pose live at 9:00am ET, Gifford's hour does not compete at once with her former show etch most markets.^[12] Kotb and Gifford replaced Ann Curry and Natalie Morales.

She started hosting Today on April 7, 2008 come together Hoda Kotb.

References

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