Kathie Lee Closes the Door on Marriage After Frank

More than a decade after losing her husband, Kathie Lee Gifford has given a definitive answer to the question many have wondered: will she ever walk down the aisle again? The answer, she’s made clear, is no—at least not in the way most people think about second chances at love.

In an interview published on Tuesday, June 30, the former Today host opened up with candor about where her heart stands now.“I am not dating anybody right now, and I don’t want to date,”Kathie Lee, 44, told People.“I’m not looking, and I don’t think I’ll ever get married again.”It’s a stark shift from the cautious openness she expressed just a few years back, when she told Us Weekly in 2019 that she believed love“finds you”and that she remained open to whatever God might bring her way.

Frank died on August 9, 2015, one week before his 85th birthday. The former NFL player and Kathie Lee were married for 29 years, tying the knot in October 1986. They shared two children together, son Cody, 35, and daughter Cassidy, 32, and built a life that weathered both triumph and heartbreak—most notably when Frank publicly admitted to infidelity in 1997, a betrayal they worked through together. That resilience, that commitment to healing, became the foundation of who Kathie Lee is as a person.

But perhaps the most revealing moment in her recent interview came when she acknowledged a road not taken.“I had an opportunity for that to maybe happen, and it didn’t work out,”she shared. The reference points to her relationship with Nashville-based businessman Richard Spitz, whom she dated from late 2021 until early 2024. That relationship clearly represented Kathie Lee’s last genuine exploration of romantic partnership, a test of whether lightning could strike twice. It couldn’t.

What’s striking isn’t that Kathie Lee has closed the door on remarriage—it’s how she’s framed what comes next.“Frank will always be the love of my life,”she said.“If God wants to do something miraculous, like give me another great love [then I’m open to it]. And so I leave room for the miraculous to happen.”There’s grace in that statement, a woman who has made peace with her past while remaining spiritually open to possibility, even if she doesn’t expect it. She’s not hardened by disappointment; she’s simply settled into the life she has, surrounded by her children and grandchildren, secure in a love that transcended even death itself.