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  • Kathie Lee Gifford Kisses Matt Lauer For Charity

    Kathie Lee Gifford locked lips with Matt Lauer on the Today show.

    But, don’t worry, it was for charity.

    Why anyone would kiss either one of those two for ANY other reason, I do not know.

    Kathie Lee Gifford was partaking in the latest do-something-make-it-go-viral-challenge-friends charity push.

    This time, Kathie Lee Gifford and Matt Lauer were supporting autism by chomping on opposite ends of a Twizzler until they met in the middle, Lady and the Tramp style.

    The whole thing started at Jon Stewart and Comedy Central’s “Night of Too Many Stars” autism event two weeks ago.

    During that event, Willie Geist was challenged by a Twitter follower to do the challenge with Uzo Aduba in exchange for a monetary donation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojbrolOWSj4

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUjrYOCJneM

    Now Kathie Lee Gifford and Matt Lauer, along with the rest of the world, are smooching for Autism in a move that is highly reminiscent of 2014’s ice bucket challenge that raised millions for ALS.

    Hopefully, this charity drive will be just as successful.

    Eating a Twizzler and kissing a friend is way easier than taking a bucket of cold ice water on your melon.

    Along with Kathie Lee Gifford, Meredith Vieira also took the Twizzler challenge with Geist on her show, The Meredith Vieira Show.

    They ended up donating $5,000 towards programs that help those with autism.

    What do you think about the Twizzler challenge? Do you think that the momentum of the ice bucket challenge still runs deep enough to motivate people to support autism by nibbling Twizzlers and kissing people?

    It will be interesting to see just how far it goes.

  • Kathie Lee Gifford, Matt Lauer Lock Lips For Twizzler Challenge

    Kathie Lee Gifford and Matt Lauer shared a sweet on-air kiss Tuesday while carrying out the Twizzler Challenge on the Today show.

    Kathie Lee Gifford locked lips with co-host Matt Lauer after the twosome nibbled opposite ends of the red licorice candy until their lips met for the Twizzler Challenge, is a campaign to raise funds for autism awareness and related programs.

    The challenge involves two people nibbling the ends of the red licorice wand until lips meet, much like the spaghetti scene in the Disney film Lady and the Tramp.

    Kathie Lee Gifford and Matt Lauer were not the first Today show hosts to lock lips for the charity. Last week, Meredith Vieira completed the challenge with Today co-anchor Willie Geist last week, and then challenged Gifford and Lauer to do the same on Tuesday’s episode.

    Willie Geist and Uzo Aduba of Orange is the New Black inspired the campaign by sharing a similar kiss at the Night of Too Many Stars fundraiser in February.

    Kathie Lee Gifford and her partner in the challenge, Matt Lauer, nominated Regis Philbin and Hoda Kotb to complete the challenge for autism.

    All donations for the challenge goes to the New York Collaborates for Autism, which has raised over $18 million for autism programs since 2006.