The Widow Gifford on thriving in her 70s and how faith saved her from Hollywood despair

“Kathie Lee Gifford, she made little children work on sweat shops!”

Is that haircut age appropriate?

Drown it please.

OK, Kathie Lee Epstein.

(with foreword by Anita Bryant)

WTF...🤮

She's only 71? I know we're used to people with plastic surgery, but damn - get the iron out and put it on HIGH steam!

She looks dryer than a popcorn fart.

I don't understand why people do face-lifts but leave their neck alone.

Whenever I think about her, I think about how Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales (RIP) used to "review" her Christmas specials and produced some of the greatest copy ever:

What’s the difference between the 24-hour flu and a Kathie Lee Gifford Christmas special? Twenty-three hours. The actual title for this year’s exercise in false piety, faked sentiment and aerobic grinning was “Kathie Lee Gifford: Christmas Every Day,” an appalling prospect any way you look at it. This is the kind of television to be watched not from the couch, as it were, but while peering out from behind it and using it as a shield, as if perhaps an air raid or some other sort of massive bombing were in progress.

“Kathie Lee: Home for Christmas,” Kathie Lee Gifford’s second annual CBS Christmas special, is perhaps even worse than her first — a sickeningly saccharine vanity production that should really have been titled “O Come, Let Us Adore Me.” That ghastly Gifford grin, ear to ear and back again, seems steeped in self-esteem and almost blinding in its show biz phoniness.

Kathie Lee Gifford sings songs like she’s mad at them. What did they ever do to her? Maybe she was frightened by a song as a child. And by Christmas, too, because each year on television she wreaks a bit more revenge.

She looks so young because she takes Balance of Nature™️! And does jazz hands at the piano after a hard day's work on her farm!

[quote] I don't understand why people do face-lifts but leave their neck alone.

Because for some reason, you can't alter necks. I've never understood why, but I know it's so.

R8 - Whew! Thanks for posting that. Now THAT is some pointless bitchery! SOOO good.

Aerobic grinning? saccharine vanity production "O Come, Let Us Adore Me", she sings songs like she's mad at them?

I want to sit next to that author at dinner. That's some talented bitchery right there. 10/10

I don't click on links to FOX anything.

I have stated my boundaries.

All that Jesus stuff? We don't know her.

Has Cody come out yet?

r2 "Is that haircut age appropriate?"

You mean, is that wig age appropriate?

Didn't HE cheat on her?

r16 Big time

[quote]I don't understand why people do face-lifts but leave their neck alone.

Not much you can do with necks or hands, r7.

Thanks, r8, Tom Shales was such an entertaining reviewer. He was absolutely SAVAGE.

That face. It looks like she's wearing house paint.

[quote]Didn't HE cheat on her?

He asked a stewardess for anal!

Isn't that SHABBY?

Claymation.

Hollywood despair - when did she ever work in Hollywood, really? Besides Hee-Haw 45 years ago.

Her popularity has always been a mystery to me. Small Town middle-aged women looked around and said - YES - SHE'S the ONE! She speaks for US! Really?

There's something off about this woman - always has been. I think she was teased about being half-Jewish and went full-board the other way. Then it became part of her persona - so she kept it and talks about it whenever it's convenient.

Kathy Epstein. A forward by Anita Bryant. Her son-in-law is the nephew of Betsy Devoss. What more is needed to know she is an evil, phony c*nt?

^foreward. Muriel!

That might simply be a bad photo, but yes she looks pretty awful. That sort of makeup has a form of chemical adhesive that makes her look “coated”.

I remember her as Kathie Lee Johnson on the ‘70s syndicated Name that Tune.

Why does Hollywood keep shoving this woman down our throats?

R27 I remember her on that program, too. She would swap “La, La, La’s” when she came to a part of a song’s lyrics that contained the title of that song.

Does she still use child labor?

She's best friends with Kris Jenner. That says it all.

I knew someone who worked at the Washington Post in the early 2000s when Tom Shales was dumped by the paper. He was allegedly emotionally devastated.

Interesting shade of corpse on the lip,

When I saw Tom Shales, I understood why he was so bitchy.

Her Precious Lord, without whom she cannot breathe, needs to have a word with her about that janky-ass wig.

It's getting scary out there.

KLG wants you to be grateful!

r24 r25 foreWORD.

[quote]She's best friends with Kris Jenner. That says it all.

She went to Oral Roberts U. and worked for Anita Bryant. That says even more.

r38 Mia Culp

R39 Is Mia Culp Robert Culp's daughter?

She did Carnival commercials before it became riff-raff. Look at the glamour!

(interesting - the $395pp for 3 night cruise with airfare - without taxes and port fees - is $1100pp today.) Cruises are a lot cheaper - particularly Carnival - than 35 years ago.