After leaving 'Today,' Kathie Lee Gifford moving to Nashville area

Kathie Lee Gifford is moving south to the Nashville area, she told People magazine. 

The 65-year-old "Today" show host who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut, is planning for the move next month to a home in Franklin, about 20 miles south of the city.

According to a Williamson County warranty deed, her company, Widow’s Peak Pictures, bought  the brownstone home for $1,250,000 in October 2018.

“Even if you’re just having a dinner party there, invariably people end up at your piano or taking your guitar off the wall, and next thing you know, you’ve written a song and you’re in the studio the next week doing a demo,” Gifford told People about the move.

Gifford is set to depart "Today" in April after 11 years. Her replacement is Jenna Bush Hager.

“The work that I want to do isn’t here anymore,” she told People. “I am an artist, I’m an actress, I’m a writer, I’m a songwriter, a director now. That’s the stuff that feeds my soul, and I know that I’m running out of time to do those things.”

Her last release, a vocal pop album entitled "My Way Home" was released in 2009.

Her spouse, NFL player-turned-commentator Frank Gifford, died in August 2015, and her mother, Joan Epstein, passed away in 2017. Both of their children, 25-year-old daughter Cassie and 29-year-old son Cody, have moved out of their childhood home in Long Island.

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