>> Kathie Lee Gifford: Yeah, there's sexy Kathie Lee.
She shows up once in a while.
I usually get pregnant when she does.
But anyway, those days are over.
[Kathie Lee Gifford]
[Retrospective] [Retro Perspective]
>> Host: Kathie will then sing a tune, and if the person on the phone
can name it, a brand-new car worth over $5,000…
>> Kathie Lee Gifford: Fun.
I had to learn 200 songs in five days.
And I never made one mistake in 11 weeks.
I couldn't do that today for anything,
but when you're young and stupid, you do it.
That's my Hee Haw Honey hair.
That was right after "Name That Tune,"
it was 1978 — my first time working in Nashville.
Made some of the best friends I've ever had in my whole life.
Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, the Gatlin Brothers, Barbara Mandrell,
I met them all.
And they were the best bunch of people I've ever met.
And, guess what, country people still are.
I knew it was the beginning of something huge.
Because I met my creative equal
when I met Regis.
I felt that a few times in life. I felt it with Regis.
I felt it with Hoda,
although that took much longer.
Regis and I were instant, but he'd been in the business a long —
he was a performer like I was.
It took longer with Hoda, because she had to learn
to trust her instincts.
I knew it with Craig Ferguson,
and I knew it with Brett James.
Those four people in my life, without a doubt.
Very happy years with Frank.
We always had fun. We had a ball.
We were 23 years apart.
We knew that our time was going to be, you know,
different from other couples, but we made every moment count.
We brought two beautiful children into the world
who have become two beautiful adults. Wouldn’t have missed a moment.
Oh, that's serious Kathie Lee. Yeah.
Well, she shows up once in a while.
Yep, just still having fun with Frank.
Oh, Regis. He still just makes me happy.
He's the funniest, just the most adorable little man God ever made.
I adore him.
There's more Reg.
Yep, and I was pregnant with Cody, that was my first baby.
I hated being pregnant.
I loved being a mother, hated being pregnant.
Well, I didn't think I'd ever have children because I was already
getting up there. I was 36 and Frank was older,
and so he already had children and grandchildren,
so I thought our chances of having a baby, and it just happened.
Yeah, this is, I love hats.
So, there's Miss America.
I had just had Cass six weeks before,
and I had to get into a size 4 dress.
And I had just weened Cassidy with cabbage leaves on my breasts.
So I remember that very well.
That works, by the way, that works [LAUGHS].
There, that's my favorite outfit to perform in with Regis.
Oh yeah, this is my rock star Kathie Lee.
When I left Regis, I did a movie called "Spinning out of Control."
I put out two albums, one that I had produced,
called "Born for You,”
and another one called "Heart of a Woman."
I was a big rock star for about two seconds.
Wow! There I am with Hoda woman at the Emmys.
In Frank's leather helmet.
Yeah, first day, I remember that.
Never dreamed in a million years I'd be there still.
Eleven years later.
But I fell in love with my Egyptian goddess.
And I still am, I'll love her till the day I die.
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I just hope that people will embrace the projects going forward.
I hope they're going to love the movies.
The project that I'm doing in Israel that I'm very excited about
is a song that I wrote with Nicole C. Mullen.
A song called "The God Who Sees."
It's going to be an 11-minute short film.
My directorial debut. I'm going to value the weeks and months
at a time that I'll be on this film set.
I haven't been able to do that kind of work because I had to be,
Monday through Friday, in New York doing my shows.
I'm grateful for those, grateful, but those days are over.
No looking back!
All forward! I just hope I get to live
a lot, lot longer and get to be able to do many, many, many more movies.
I've got seven on the docket now.
And I'm just biting at the bit to get at them.
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