During difficult times, it's always nice to indulge in a little bit of nostalgia — like the memories of what seems like a bygone, COVIDfree era. For some, this might mean endlessly binging episodes of The Office , while for others, it might mean remembering how an eight-year-old internet meme of a monkey wearing an oversize jacket once single-handedly invented fashion.
And still, for a good but distinctive few, it might be the memory of how TV personality Kathie Lee Gifford and fellow presenter Hoda Kotb used to drink a seemingly endless supply of wine before noon during their daily morning segment on the Today show.
Future guests would request cocktails like Brooke Shields with Joel McHale bringing his own bottle of Hennessy, according to the interview. Ah, those 11 years together must have been some glory days for Gifford and Kotb.
Read More:. Follow today. More Brands. By Meena Hart Duerson. By the way, we started pouring wine on that show, and I promise you, I felt like the suits had no clue, and one day, they just watched our show and said, 'How long has that been going on? You know what happened? It's Me, Chelsea]. So we served her some drinks, and Brooke Shields shows up the next day and says, 'Where's mine? I thought it was illegal to drink on the air.
I thought it was some FCC violation, but no. In the middle of her story, Seth Meyers did jump in to comment on something that many others were certainly thinking: it makes all the sense in the world that the booze-friendly Chelsea Handler would be the impetus behind Today 's light party mode in the mornings. I do like the fact that, even though this is a professional TV studio for one of the biggest networks in the world, someone apparently had alcohol ready to pour at the drop of a fashionable earring.
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