KELLY RIPA - KATHIE LEE TO REUNITE WITH REGIS

KATHIE LEE TO REUNITE WITH REGIS

Kathie Lee Gifford, who co-hosted Live with Regis and Kathie from 1987 to 2000, will be returning to the show for the first time to celebrate the morning program's 20th anniversary during a two-week period beginning Sept. 3. "This will be the first time Regis, Kelly [Ripa, the current co-host] and Kathie are together on the air," executive producer Michael Gelman told the New York Post. "We've been waiting for the right time to have her back and this is a big event, so we're happy to have her." In an interview with the newspaper, Gifford disclosed that she quit the program because her father was dying, "and I was not comfortable making it public... I had a very personal reason for not going through yet one more painful experience in a public way. ...I just had to have that time with him without cameras in my face and without having to explain things." (In 1997 she had to deal with controversy following reports of a tryst between her husband, sportscaster Frank Gifford, and an airline attendant.)

16/08/2007