Kathie Lee Gifford Says It Would Take 'Something Miraculous' To Marry Again After Husband's Death

Despite their 23-year age difference and public cheating scandal, Kathie Lee Gifford's late husband Frank Gifford remains the love of her life to this day — even after passing away in 2015. The former television personality, now in her 70s, is content with never finding love again. Her 1986 marriage to Frank Gifford, a pro footballer-turned-broadcaster, was her second, following her first marriage to Paul Johnson, a music composer and producer, from 1976 to 1983. Unlike those lucky celebs who found their happily ever after later in life, Gifford said she has no desire to search for romance a third time. "I am not dating anybody right now, and I don't want to date," she exclusively told People in 2015. "I'm not looking, and I don't think I'll ever get married again."

Over a decade since her husband's death, Gifford admitted there was a moment that could have led to her settling down again. "I had an opportunity for that to maybe happen, and it didn't work out, so you move on. You stay friends if you can, and we have," she continued. At this stage in her life, the talk show host said it would take a miracle for her to consider marriage again. "Frank will always be the love of my life. If God wants to do something miraculous, like give me another great love ... I leave room for the miraculous to happen." Gifford had two children with Frank, a son, Cody, and a daughter, Cassidy, and is enjoying life as a grandmother of five.

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Before they even began dating, Gifford said she and Frank were 'best friends'. In fact, he would often try to set her up on dates with his billionaire friends, but she refused. "He set me up with two billionaires, and he goes, 'Kathie, you may be the only woman in New York who's not here because they want to meet a billionaire'," Gifford recalled in a July 2026 episode of "Hang Out with Sean Hannity." She always told Frank, "I make my own money."

"It was a guy that owned Loews [hotels], Jonathan Tisch, and it was the guy that the family, the Mara family, that owned the Giants. You know you don't get bigger than that in New York, right?" she continued. "I said I don't do that. They wouldn't leave him alone because I think they knew, too, I was the only woman in New York who didn't want to marry a billionaire." Laughing at the memory, Gifford then joked, "I wouldn't mind now."

Now that she's single again, the former "Today" show host spoke about the struggles of dating as a celebrity. "It's hard to be the man in a relationship with somebody like me," she told Hannity. "A lot of people are famous, but not a lot of people have been in somebody's home and in their bedrooms," she continued, emphasizing how difficult it can be to separate a celebrity's public and private life.