William Shatner came by the studio this morning, prompting Kathie Lee to make a shocking confession.
The Negotiator was here to discuss "Shatner's World," his one-man Broadway show about horses, love, NASA, Star Trek, and singing. When he dazzled the ladies with a single line of er, song from the show ("Sorry to disappoint you but I'm real"), KLG was so moved that she wound up copping to holding a torch for James Tiberius Kirk.
"You were one of my first major crushes," she admitted. "I was 4."
So why didn't the love strangest love story of our time ever transpire? Flood pants!
Kathie Lee explained that ultimately, the pants favored by the Enterprise crew, which ended well above the ankle, were a total turnoff. Ah, what might have been....
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Cant figure which one is creepier, Shatner or Gifford. I guess I got to go with Gifford.
Kathie Lee's neck looks like 50 miles of Death Valley fire trails. I guess it's been a long time since the Hee Haw Honeys.
I think Shatner is actually prettier than Kathy (alligator skin) Lee.
I thought Kathy was much older than Shatner, she sure looks it, 44 years old is mor elike it when the series was on, not 4!
can't wait till all you haters get old and wrinkly...whos going to love you then?
if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
She was 4? A crush at 4? What a joke.
I think she meant 14, not 4 :) Star Trek wasn't on in 1957.