Kathie Lee Gifford says "delighted" with Hoda Kotb's Surprise Baby

Kathie Lee Gifford is "delighted" with the new addition to Hoda Kotbthe family of.

L & # 39; former Today & # 39; hui The legendary TV host and personality could not be happier for her longtime friend, who recently announced the exciting baby news Tuesday morning. "It's a girl," Kotb said happily on the phone about her daughter that she had secretly adopted, I hope Catherine Kotb.

"Dude, I'm so happy that she's here."

As for Hoda's eldest daughter, Haley Joy Kotb? She has already bonded with her younger sister. "She was trying to give her her raspberries and I told myself:" Not yet, baby, "said Kotb, adding that Haley was walking and letting people know that she was a big sister.

Among Kotb's new baby surprise, Gifford said she felt "it was coming," she just did not know when.

"Hoda is a mom again, I'm happy about that," she said at a live broadcast of FOX News Channel. The five (which also marks his first appearance on television since his departure from Today & # 39; hui).

She continued, "I knew it was going to happen, I did not know when it was going to happen."

From the start Today & # 39; hui In early April, after more than ten years of existence, Gifford is ready for the next chapter of his life. For her, she wants to "take time" for "certain things".

"I had warned two years ago because I knew the time had come," she says. The five in Nashville. "You know you're running out of ticks in life and there are things I wanted to do and I would die wanting to do it and you just need to take some time for some things."

Gifford says that she was "so blessed" to have worked Today & # 39; hui for 11 years, but felt "that it was time" to move on.

At present, the legendary animator wants to "spend time with people who love God, love my wine, love music, love our country".

For that, we will applaud.