One year after retiring from her hosting gig on the “Today” show, Kathie Lee Gifford is busier than she ever thought she’d be. Since leaving the show, Gifford has been hard at work writing music, screenplays, acting, and producing.

Gifford’s latest project was starring in the new romantic comedy “Then Came You,” which is the story of a widow who is traveling around the world with her late husband’s ashes. She begins her journey in Scotland, where she meets a man who will change her life forever. This man is played by former late night television host Craig Ferguson, who is also a close friend of Gifford’s.

“I’ve longed to make movies since I was a child. That’s all I ever wanted to do is, be an actress and be a singer in movies, and I never dreamed I’d have the opportunity to write one, or produce one and co-wrote all the songs for it. That was just sort of, you know, cream on up on the top,” she told Fox News.

Gifford, 67, added that she’d wanted to work on a movie with Ferguson ever since he cohosted “Today” with her for a week.

“We worked together at the ‘Today’ show for one explosive week and we enjoyed it so much and had such a good time we tried to say, well, what can we do next to sort of harness this fun, this chemistry that we have? And he suggested that we write a movie together…” she explained.

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“I say that to everybody!” Ferguson said jokingly. “Whenever they say, ‘That was nice, did you have fun?’ I went yeah, ‘Let’s write a movie!’ But Kathie is the only one who actually went ahead and wrote a movie.”

Gifford concluded by saying that the plot and characters of the movie were not hard to create.

“Literally what I put down on paper was coming to life in real-time with this human being that I want in my life for the rest of my life,” she said. “His wife, Megan, and his family, Scotland. I just want to keep making movies in Scotland with Craig.”

“Then Came You” is set to be released on-demand on Friday.

This piece originally appeared in UpliftingToday.com and is used by permission.

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