Kathie Lee Gifford is giving fans a candid update on her love life more than a decade after the death of her late husband, Frank Gifford.
“I am not dating anybody right now, and I don’t want to date,” 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 85th birthday. The former 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 former TV host reconciled with her husband and together they worked to “heal” their marriage.
While sharing her thoughts on potentially walking down the wedding aisle again, Kathie Lee said, “I had an opportunity for that to maybe happen, and it didn’t work out.”
The former Today host last dated Nashville-based businessman Richard Spitz from late 2021 until early 2024.
“Frank will always be the love of my life,” Kathie Lee said. “If God wants to do something miraculous, like give me another great love [then I’m open to it]. And so I leave room for the miraculous to happen.”
Frank died of natural causes, although his family shared that he suffered from CTE, a progressive brain disease caused by numerous concussions and brain trauma.
“While Frank passed away from natural causes this past August at the age of 84, our suspicions that he was suffering from the debilitating effects of head trauma were confirmed,” the Gifford family said in a November 2015 statement. “During the last years of his life, Frank dedicated himself to understanding the recent revelations concerning the connection between repetitive head trauma and its associated cognitive and behavioral symptoms — which he experienced firsthand.”
Nearly four years after his death, Kathie Lee exclusively told Us Weekly she was open to love.
“I don’t think you go out and find love; I think that it finds you,” she told Us at her Today show farewell party in New York City in 2019. “I’m a woman of faith, so I also think that if God wants it, then he’ll bring it. Maybe I have [found love] already and just don’t know it. We’ll see.”
Kathie Lee also spoke to Us about her journey with grief and how she coped with the heartbreak.
“I was having a rough time [in the beginning],” she explained. “But I allowing myself to feel OK.”
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