Kathie Lee Gifford, who was once part of the famed morning show duo Regis and Kathy Lee, is returning to morning time TV on NBC’s ‘Today’ show.

Gifford, 54, widely expected for several weeks to join “Today,” will co-host the newly launched fourth hour of the top-rated U.S. morning show with NBC News correspondent Hoda Kotb, starting on April 7, according to the network.

“It couldn’t be worse timing in some ways,” Gifford joked as her hiring was announced during Monday’s “Today” broadcast. “I’m eight years older, 10 pounds heavier and a half-inch shorter, and just in time for HD television. That makes no sense.”

Kathie Lee is married to all-time football great Frank Gifford and is the mother of two teenage children, Cody and Cassidy.  She is the winner of 11 daytime Emmys.