Kathie Lee Gifford

Kathie Lee Gifford doesn’t like the phrase “reinvent yourself.” (“For how can I reinvent myself when I never invented myself to begin with? God created me, and He created you too,” she says.) She’s not a big fan of the word “retire” either. So, when the beloved television host left big city life after decades in front of a camera, she was ready to “re-fire”—a term she much prefers to the others. On April 5, 2019, after 11 years on the TODAY Show with her co-host and now dear friend Hoda Kotb, she said “goodbye to and hello to tomorrow.”