IT'S OFFICIAL: KATHIE LEE ON TODAY

Kathie Lee Gifford is returning to morning television. The former Live cohost will join the fourth hour of the Today show beginning April 7. Gifford credited co-host Hoda Kotb for her return. "She and I went to lunch and got kicked out of the restaurant," Kathie Lee told TODAYshow.com. "It was a four-hour lunch."