Sarah Horne talked to the Today show co-hosts Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb at the American Cancer Society’s “Mother of the Year” award luncheon.

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Why do you always seem to be drinking in the morning on Today?
HK: It’s a joke. The producers just keep coming up with ways of getting us to drink, it’s become our thing. It’s like a nonstop party from ten to eleven.
KLG: Well, I’m drunk when I get there, so I don’t really see what the big deal is.

What do you make of the news that the Rainbow Room might convert to office space?
KLG: I think that’s a terrible idea.
HK: What we need to do is move our show there and have a live audience.

You were once honored at this same event as Mother of the Year. What did your kids make of that?
KLG: At the time, I went home and said, “Well, they want me to be Mother of the Year,” and my kids just looked at me and said, “Why?”

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