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Kathie Lee Quitting
In what appeared to be an unscripted moment, Kathie Lee Gifford announced this morning on Live with Regis & Kathie Lee that she is quitting the a.m. talk show after 11 years.
A seemingly shocked Regis Philbin asked her if she was joking.
She said she wasn't. "It's time," Gifford explained on live TV. "I wanted to be in control of when it was announced." Gifford said she will leave when contract expires in July.
"I have loved my years with you," Gifford told Philbin. "You've been the greatest professional partner a person could ever, ever have."
Said Reeg: "It's been a lot of fun. We'll miss you tremendously."
Calls to Gifford's publicist have not yet been returned.
Gifford is exiting before Philbin can; his contract is up for renewal in August 2001. Philbin, who's reportedly mulling a potential $20 million payday for his hosting chores on ABC's very successful Who Wants to Be a Millionaire game show, appears willing to continue at Live sans Kathie Lee, but acknowledged on today's show that it will be hard to find a replacement. Said Regis, "It's going to be a very tough pair of shoes to fill." Or maybe not, according to some tube analysts.
"There's no reason her leaving would at all jeopardize the future of the program," said Richard Kurlander of the advertising firm Petry Television. "His leaving would...I don't see this as a problem. I see it as an opportunity."
In fact, Regis' wife, Joy, has filled in for Kathie Lee on occasion and might be on the short list of permanent replacements.
Live is the fourth most-watched program in the syndicated talk-show market, behind Oprah Winfrey, Jerry Springer and Rosie O'Donnell. Its ratings are down about 10 percent this year, but talk-show ratings in general have been taking a dip. Quiz shows are the place to be. (Who knows, maybe Gifford will host her own Who Wants to Be a Billionaire somewhere down the line?)
Gifford has recently started going her own way in the Broadway production of Putting It Together, in which she appears one night a week. And she filled in as a CBS Late Show guest host last week.
She may also want to focus more time on her family--oft-talked-about children, Cody, 9, and Cassidy, 6, and hubby, former football star Frank Gifford.
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