Kathie Lee Gifford just returned to her post next to cast co-star Hoda Kotb on the Today show this morning, but word has it she may not remain there for long. According to the latest news updates, Frank Gifford's hard drinking wife is disgruntled with NBC and is considering moving to Good Morning America or anywhere else she might be more valued. It is also being reported that Kathie Lee spent her January break rethinking her comments about Bill Cosby allegedly raping 30 or more women over the past forty years and is now supposedly apologizing to any one that she might have offended.
Kathie Lee Gifford just returned to her job hosting the forth hour of the Today show with Hoda Kotb, after supposedly exercising a clause in her NBC contract to work from her home in Florida in the wintertime if she feels like it.
While Kathy Lee may very well have some sort of seasonal stipulations in her contract, one source told the National Enquirer that the truth was Gifford was really just growing tired of her NBC bosses:
"Kathie had a huge fight with Deb [Turness, NBC News president], and the talk in the hallways is that she's done.
"Kathie Lee is only 61, and would love nothing more than moving to another network in an act of revenge!
"That's why if Kathie Lee leaves NBC, it won't be the last fans see of her!"
It is also being reported by the Enquirer that Kathy spent her time away from the show in January thinking about the way her Cosby comments might have been received.
On Today, Gifford recalled Bill making a sexual advance towards her many years ago but recalled that he was as easily deterred as a lovesick school boy.
According to the February 9, issue a Kathie Lee insider claimed she wound up calling former model and current Cosby accuser, Beverly Johnson, to apologize if her comments seemed to defend the indefensible:
"Kathie told Beverly -- and some others -- that she wasn't trying to minimize the women and their harrowing stories, but many had interpreted it that way.
"Kathie Lee, who has a daughter, says she suddenly wondered how the mothers of these women felt when they heard what sounded like her defense of Cosby."
Of course, Kathie Lee realizes that she may not be able to call up each and every women out there that Cosby may have sexually assaulted, so the spy insists she is getting NBC to do it for her:
"More than just ruing her comments, Gifford's using her clout with NBC to spearhead a special series on women suffering from physical, mental and sexual abuse."
Let's just hope that's not what Kathie Lee was supposedly fighting with Debra Turness about the other day.
