Tragic Details About Kathie Lee Gifford

After six years of an uncomfortable and unhappy marriage to gospel musician Paul Johnson, the future Kathie Lee Gifford still wouldn't find her happily ever after or lifelong partner right away, nor would that happen without some romantic casualties. A few months after Johnson moved out of their home, according to People, Kathie Lee Johnson moved to Manhattan to work as a field reporter for "Good Morning America," where she met another member of the show's cast: former NFL MVP and champion Frank Gifford. He was married to his second wife, and 23 years older than Kathie Lee, but she was still interested in him because he possessed what she called "an incredible set of buns." 

They had palpable on-screen chemistry, but he was spoken for, leading Kathie Lee to date several men over the next few years, such as banker Stan Pottinger. Meanwhile, she became close friends with Gifford, to whom she confided in each of the nine times she broke up with Pottinger. After two years of almost dating, the pair finally got together when Gifford embarked in a heated divorce battle, and they married in 1986.

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