posted 03-01-2000 06:33 PM            

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Final Answer?

Kathie Lee Gifford evoked gasps from her audience TUESDAY when she told co-host Regis Philbin on Live with Regis & Kathie Lee: "I'm announcing today that I'm going to be leaving our show." While it almost seemed like a cue for Philbin to remark, "Is that your final answer?" Gifford continued: "The truth
is, when we started together, I was not married and was childless and the world was a different place," Gifford said, turning to co-host Regis Philbin. "We could make jokes about things without anybody taking
it and sensationalizing it and making it disgusting and lurid and horrible. And now that I have two children, I want to protect them from that kind of world" She later released a statement accusing the "tabloid media" for continuing to print "harmful, misleading and libelous stories" about her. The most sensational stories appeared three years ago when her husband, Frank Gifford, was videotaped in a hotel room with a stewardess.

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Sounds like the baby didn't get her way, hence she's going off to sulk, eh?