That is so we had nothing but women on the show today, yeah. You have . It is really it is hard even to do one rope, but two. Okay. Anyway. You know what else it is today, hodi . What . It is a big day. Its a celebration close your eyes. Where were you six years ago today . It is our sixth anniversary. Yea which only proves that there is no accounting for taste. Lets take a look at a quick recap of the last six years. Shall we, hoda . Yes, lets do it. Today with Kathie Lee Gifford and hoda kotb. I have my journalistic standards. I wanna hoda on your coffee on the back of my gilapi kathie got low. You have not let me do my friday funny. It is finally time. Hold on one second. Oh, i wonder if my phone is going to ring. Oh, oh theres a number. Oh. Is that my number . Is my phone ringing . Hello, hello. Look i have 20 voice mails. 22. 23. Proven, hoda woman. Here we come on the run with a burger on the bun did anybody find anything attractive down there until we started shaving and dyeing and what about you, missy . Im the landing strip. Seen any 747s recently . Fat guys make better lovers. Ive known that. No, ive known that. Boots with the pearls im not even going to drink. Im going it eat. Please, crank it. God bless you all. Love you, sweetheart. Love you too. I cant believe that. I thought i was going to stay one year and something happened along the way this and is it, i fell in love with somebody and it is you, hoda woman. I love you. I love you too. Tradition has it, the gift of iron iron . Is given for a sixth anniversary. Okay. Thank you, jerry. Heres mine. If it is an iron if it is iron supplements, which i could use i bet it is. You got iron supplements. Iron supplements. I got the iron. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much. Thank you, you guys. Thanks to our staff. Six years of putting up with us. And we love you dearly. And our everybody in the control room. Yes. You all too. If you watch the acms last night, the Country Music awards, those are always fun. Annual academy they dont like it when you dont say the annual academy of Country Music. Anyway, Blake Shelton hosted it with luke bryan. And youre very upset. Very upset, arent you . Because Miranda Lambert looks so darn great. Im the one who walked in and said she looked so great. Thats terrible. You threw me under the bus. I thought she looked fabulous and shes the big winner of the night and she had lots of costume changes. They kicked off the whole night with the band perry. Love them. They sang, and then something happened after they sang, a whole avalanche of white confetti finely shredded fell on to the audience. And if you look it is, like, you have new hair and lots of spray in it, and look. Oh. One of those times where they pretend it is okay, but they all want to scream. My god, it is poor carrie. It is all in there. I wonder if those are snowflakes. No. Thats not a good idea. Anyway. Blake and luke are friends, they always have fun and look at how blake introduced lukes performance. Ladies and gentlemen, heres last years entertainer of the year and nominee again this year, bluke lyran i want to see how great miranda looked. She looked so good. Female vocalist of the year for the fifth year in a row. We dont know. Jason aldean, male vocalist of the year. Its our sixth anniversary. How convenient, picture is not available. George strait was voted on by the fans and won entertainer of the year. He says hes retiring though, right . No, no, no. Are we going to get to see this . Oh, good, maybe a little bit of blake and shakira singing their duet medicine. In a second make it fade youre my medicine medicine medicine medicine medicine we make it better you make me feel whole it is so great. Shes adorable. And what the voice has done for her career. A huge star around the world, but she really wasnt almost like who . Shes adorable. The australian girl. Kylie minogue. Huge star around the world and a lot of people would not know her in america. Youre right. Youre right. Lets talk about cute and crazy cute. Were in love with this family. Prince william and kate, they walked around with baby george. They arrived in new zealand. Okay. Look at this. Eight months. It is windy. Hes not even bothered. Hes happy. Bouncing baby. Looks just like william. Hes adorable. I mean thats my favorite when theyre like can we go anyway, hes so oh, such a looks like such a happy baby. Did you see the when the wind a picture in the newspaper, the wind blew her skirt up, shes got the greatest legs in the history of the world. She looks fantastic. I cant believe how great she is. Were moving on to favorite things quick, but this is such a cool thing. So, on thursday of last week, beautiful the musical was on again. You went for the fourth time. I didnt go on thursday because on thursday carole king was in the audience. Before we show this, she dressed up in a wig, glasses, sat in row k, next to her daughter, but some people dont know thats her daughter, and watched the whole thing, the cast didnt know. Nobody knew. She watched the whole thing. When it was over, she got up on stage when they were doing the thing with the aids charity where they go up and ask people after the show is over broadway cares. Broadway cares. She walked up on stage. Lets see. Oh, my gosh. Every year at this time, the broadway and Theatrical Community from coast to coast joins together to raise money for an Amazing Organization called broadway cares. [ applause ] even in the darkest night you just call out my name and you know wherever i am ill come running to see you again wow. Anyway, so they she sang and by the way, that is jessy mueller, so brilliant in the show. There are a bunch of shots and it showed her sobbing when she first saw her on stage. What a great surprise. Their cd is out on i tunes. What a day for you not to be there. Ive gone five times. The one time i dont go, i was so bummed. Im so glad carole has seen it now. It is such a beautiful tribute to not just her music, but her life. Shes beloved. All right, speaking of beloved, ive not been able thank you, everybody, for coming out this past weekend. Youre very popular. So grateful. Yeah, we have to stay an hour longer each place, so thank you, everybody. Appreciate it. But my your favorite thing is what . It is actually beautiful, the music, the soundtrack is out now. I get it, get it. My favorite thing, ive not been allowed to speak about, but this one i was muzzled by my own daughter who has a small role, but a pivotal role in a movie that i finally was allowed to see yesterday. It is bizarre to see your daughter on the big screen. It is a movie called gods not dead, been out for three weeks, it was the number five there is cassidy. Been out for three weeks. It is still number four. So it is climbing. Still number four. It was five for both weeks, now number four. And it has been a huge surprise. Thats kevin sorbo, huge surprise in the box office. So obviously terrific. Im a proud mom. I am a proud mom. Shes turning out to be a very good little actress. Love her. Congratulations, cas. Thank you for finally letting me go. A reminder that American Express is looking for moms to bring to new york city for an epic everyday getaway. So all you got to do is submit a photo of your mom inspired everyday moments and you and a friend could be chosen to come to the big apple for a great adventure. Go to klgandhoda. Com for all details. Connect button. Yes. Enough talking, were going to find out what hollywood is talking about where we bring out the hollywood buzz. And so sorry that our friend Mickey Rooney passed away this past weekend. If you thought of starting over, marlo thomas is here with brave women that reinvented their lives at midlife. And star reinvented herself many times over, Kirstie Alley and her big announcement coming up right after this. Kirstie alley is an emmy and golden globe winning actress known for cheers and veronicas closet. And on her new show with a clever name called kirstie. Couldnt think of anything else. She said she didnt like what she saw and after years of battling her weight, she decided to get back on track. So now, seven years after being a paid spokesperson for jenny craig, shes the face of the Weight Loss Program once again. It is nice to see you. Well, well, what are you doing . Im pushing i can see i want it to be up like that. I dont know how you get that up . Just do the whole thing. Im right with you. Lets do this, which hoda doesnt like. They like that. Hi. So seven years, huh . Since i did jenny craig, yes, it has been. You were talking with matt earlier about how the weight it creeps up. Nobody gains seven pounds overnight, or do they . When i wasnt a spokesperson for jenny craig anymore, it crept back on. I didnt follow the program or the presets. And then i lost it again with a program i invented that was called organic liaison. And then i you know, i really miss the thing i love jenny craig is the food was really good and i loved the consultant. It was like having a coach. If youre an athlete, you have to have a coach. Is it harder . I find now it is harder for me to lose weight now than it was when i was younger. It is one of those thins you feel like youre battling. Do you think age factors into it at all when it comes to weight loss with you . It probably does. I dont like to say that because i dont i feel like for every time i say age factors into anything, im just putting a nail in the coffin, you know . Ill say it for you. Yes, it does. Menopause, though, every doctor will tell you it is harder for women it might be. But i have an easy time gaining weight and i think an easy time losing weight. Good for you. If i just keep relatively active and follow some rules. My problem is i dont have guidelines. Youre a rule breaker. I am a bit. I go in stages. Youre a naughty girl. Im a bad girl. What is your trigger when it comes to eating . Everyone has got theirs. My trigger is just holidays, big deal for me. I have a very long span of holidays. Halloween through valentines day. Easter is almost here. I know. I got to yeah. It is sort of really when there is a lot of im from kansas, i like heavy foods. I like cooking a lot for people. And entertaining. Ive eaten two meals probably by the time im done cooking so taste testing. You got to make sure its good. Dancing with the stars, everybody who has been on that talks about how grueling it is. You dropped a ton of weight, but that sort of exercise is not something anyone can really sustain. Thats not something youre going to do. I lost the weight before and then i did it and lost more and i kept losing weight after. And but, no, no one can do that. But, again, you have you also have the future, you know, Dance Teacher standing there making you do it. And i guess if you walked around in real life with a Dance Teacher all the time and they made you do it you would do it. I can only take maks for so long. How much do you want to lose . 30 pounds. What amount of time to do that or just whenever . Im going to give myself probably five months. Im not i dont want to make my set myself up to fail. You know what you got to do, avoid all the state fairs this summer. Everything is fried and corn dogs and everything. Nice to see you, kirstie. Great to see you guys. And you both look very well. Thank you, you too. She didnt say good. Thats not good. 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Call 1800dentist today. We are back with spring breakers today. And our attempt to have a Guinness World record set here on our show. Well see if 4yearold geronimo can break her own record with the most double dutch skips by a dog in a minute. Her last record was 113 jumps in 30 seconds. Oh, 60 seconds. Sorry. Sam is the owner and mike is the Guinness World record adjudicator. And the nice gentleman on the end will also help us. Have no idea who he is. What made you decide to have your dog enter this type of, you know well, apparently there wasnt a record yet for a double dutch dog, so they contacted me and asked me to do it. Im, like, yeah, sure. Geronimo went viral on youtube from her double dutch video i put out a few years ago. They saw it. Shes a rescue, right . She is. How did you teach her how to do that . A lot of time, a lot of patience and not much of a life. Well, we should point out, if anyone ever tried to double dutch, its hard. Well show how hard it is with a human being. Sure. Which is me. Which will be hoda. Because kathies neck hurts. Allegedly. Over here . Please be careful, too. Be careful. You have to really time it. Okay, go ahead. Ropes are heavy, i cant even who is this guy on the end . Im afraid. Get in there. Get involved. Anyway excellent, hoda. Those are ropes. What do we to . Were going to do it now. Geronimo is ready. Lets go. Sit, stay. Lets back up. Not you. Youre the adjudicator. Sit. Look at this. Good baby. Look at her. Eye and paw coordination. Im mesmerized. Who is the guy on the end . Dont mess him up. I cant even look. I dont know. Right now we have the guinness book of world record adjudicator. Whatever he is. Hes counting. His name is sam valley. Who is the other guy . Only 36 seconds. Wow. Now, look, as this is happening, we may go to break, but were counting and calculating every jump. Why are we going to break . This is fascinating television. I dont want to. I dont think its right. I dont think it is fair to our guests. We cant. Five, four, three, two, one. Yes, good job good job, geronimo. Did he break it . Were going to tell you oh, we have to make sure. Well tell you after the commercial. Thats geronimo. Were back with today on this fun day monday. And the judge is reviewing everything now, our adjudicator. Did geronimo break the guinness book of World Records with the most double dutch jumps in one minute . I love that dog. Before we get to that, it is time to get you caught up on all of todays buzz with the celebrity gossip you missed over the weekend, here is josh zaks. Thank you, ladies. Im waiting, i want to find out. Cannot reveal it yet. Theyre adjudicating. It takes time. Lets start with the box office. No surprise really what wound up on top. Captain america doing gang busters. 9. 62 million in north america. Huge internationally. Cracked 300 million globally. The eighth in the franchise, from what i understand. Who can even count . Yeah. It did particularly well in china where it made almost 40 million. It just goes to show that studios have to start thinking about exactly whether something works for the Chinese Market as well. But it is the biggest opening week biggest opening april weekend ever. Ever. Are you mocking my accent . We love your accept. Now, noah in second. Not doing wildly well, but made back its money. It will go on to make more than 200 million, which is good. No small change. And third place was divergent and fourth place was gods not dead starring cassidy. These guys are the stars. She has a small role. There she is. Lets stop and look she shot a couple of those scenes 2 1 2 years ago. You grow so much as youre making it. Captain america, theyre planning it out to 2028. They have at least 14 years worth of more franchise. Is it unusual for a film to go from fifth to fourth . Usually every week you see them dropping. It is a good sign. Noah lost 60 of the audience between the first week and the second week. So word of mouth matters. Jon hamms cute video that came out. Hes cute all the time. 25 years old. Im not sure that cute is the right word. Have you seen the haircut . Jon hamm is next, 25 years old, hes a waiter. Jon hamm, ladies and gentlemen. How do you make her feel special . Well, start off with some fabulous food. Little fabulous conversation. And then what else is fabulous, jon. End it with a fabulous foot massage for an evening of total fabulosity. Total. Im not sure about the haircut. That was the haircut that whats his name had in winters tale and thats why the movie didnt do well. Colin farrell. Encouraging to people like know see, like, the coolest, hottest guy on television back when he was 25, looking a little like a sleazy sort of he doesnt look cool. There is hope for us yet. He never got picked. He was on that show twice and the girl passed over him and tmz tracked down the woman who didnt take him. And she lives in los angeles, shes married for five years, so she said i dont regret it for a second. I wouldnt take a thousand jon hamms over my husband. I dont know why you need a thousand of them anyway. Probably just three. Lets talk use them up so quickly. Lets talk golf digest. It is a controversial cover. It is not a golfer on the cover. It is paulina gretzky, thats Wayne Gretzkys daughter. Nothing to do with golf other than the fact she looks hot, put her on the cover. Put her on the cover of a hockey magazine, not golf. Shes engaged to i cant remember the name. Dustin johnson, a pga guy. But there is an uproar because a lot of the female golfers are saying, what about us . What are we, chopped liver . This is not a swimsuit Sports Illustrated edition. What are they trying to get, more people to buy the golf magazine . Im sure thats going to work. It is not going to happen. So negative on our anniversary. Thank you. It is our anniversary. Got married. New married man, congrats. Yes. Wish you all the best. Cant get the scale to budge, find out what a joy fit club member did to drop 300 pounds. And emmy and golden globe winning actress marlo thomas on reinventing your life at midlife. Sfx car unlocbeep. Vo davids heart attack didnt come with a warning. Today his doctor has him on a bayer aspirin regimen to help reduce the risk of another one. If youve had a heart attack be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. For Digestive Health . Yes and did you know that trubiotics is a daily probiotic that helps in two ways . It supports digestive and immune health by working in your gut where 70 of your immune system lives. Try trubiotics today. Have you ever thought about quitting your job or changing the course of your life completely to follow your dream but you thought to yourself, well, it is just too late . Award winning actress and bestselling author marlo thomas says it is never too late. And writes all about it in her new book it aint over till its over reinventing your life and realizing your dreams anytime at any age. These women are the stars of my book, two of the 60 women i wrote about in the book. Theyre so fabulous because they didnt let society tell them what they should do if they were the right age to do it. They just decided to take their dream and go for it. All these women, each of them, had a moment, like, you call it a eureka moment, they said an aha moment, that can be terrifying. What made these women take the leap . I think because we realize, all the women are realizing, if youre 42 years old, your dream runs out on you, it does somewhere in the 40, you raised your family and now what . And, hey, you can live another 40 years, you can live another 50 years, what are you going to do with it . You better have a backup plan, a second dream, a third dream. I like cinnamons dream. This was genius, you knew women loved manicures. You decided instead of us going to the manicure place, you would bring the manicure to us. I had a roommate in college who was pregnant with her third child, this is after school, of course, i called to check on her one day, how are you what do you need . She said i would love a pedicure before i deliver. I said let me find someone to come to you. I searched the internet and called salons and couldnt. Thats when the idea for nail taxi was conceived. Nail taxi. Great idea. Show up at peoples homes or we go to hospital rooms, offices, hotels, wherever they need it. We do weddings, baby showers. What were you doing before that and were you afraid to sort of jump out of that . I walked in pr for 13 years before i had this idea. And there was a lot of fear, you know . But i went ahead and pushed through it and did it and i would like to encourage women to take that leap of faith, to go for it. What is a great idea too is to do one little thing every day. You cant do the whole banana at once. If you say, okay, im going to make a call. Today im going to figure out how i something. What skill set i need. Please leave your card with hoda, okay . Looking at this great painting by you, leila, you took a leap and decided to become an artist, something you loved your whole life. Yes, yes, i did. Most people dont make money at that. It must have been scary going into that. It was very scary. It was very scary. But my hope was to create something that nobody had painted before, and i layer cities on top of each other. Underneath this city you see lives two other cities, venice and new york, New York Times as well. What a great idea. How clever. Underneath the cities live other cities and so my job was to create something that nobody paints in the world. But the first person she went to, an art gallery expert, that she was told to go to for advice, said, no. No way. It will never there is always a naysayer. There were portraits and and that work had been done before. This is unique. In the market, you have to create something that nobody paints in the world. Just a discouragement, made her own thing. They need a paycheck. This all seems great, but you know, we need to be practical too, dont we . We do need to be practical. Also, there is all kinds of one woman sold all of her clothes on ebay, all of her fabulous clothes. Another woman took a loan out on her retirement fund, scary, but she did it, mortgaged her house and sold her car. If you want to go for your dream, you got to go for it. Nobody else can do it. You got to believe in yourself. Da vinci, anucci, i love it. Please leave your card. Thank you. 58 other stories and every one of them theyre all great. Marlo, congrats on another new book. Bestseller in the making. Our newest joy fit member. She shows off the amazing weight loss. And one brought along a special recipe for cookie dough lovers. And showed us the ropes, double dutch. But did geronimo break the guinness book of World Records. I cant wait to find out. I think she did. I think so. But who was that guy . Well find out after this. As a kid, i made a list of all the places i wanted to visit. Im still not going to make it to mars, but thanks to hotwires incredibly low travel prices, i can afford to cross more things off my list. This year alone, we went to the top of the statue of liberty. And still saved enough to go to texas to a real dude ranch hotwire checks the competitions rates every day. So they can guarantee their low prices. So we got our 4star hotels for half price. Next up, Hollywood Hotwire hotwire. Com save big on car rentals too, from 11. 95 a day. Hey kevin. Still eating chalk for hearburn . Yea. Try alka seltzer fruit chews. They work fast on heart burn and taste awesome. These are good. Told ya im feeling better already. Alkaseltzer fruit chews. Enjoy the relief we are back with the joy fit club and two new members who got fed up with being overweight and decided to do something about it through a healthy diet and exercise. They lost nearly 300 pounds combined and here to introduce them to us is today nutritionist and leader of the joy fit club, joy bauer. Hi. It is going to be pretty hard to beat, but i think we can do it. These people are unbelievable. Sarah berger is the first person. 35 years old from chicago, illinois. And in this picture shes at her heaviest, shes 333 pounds here and she felt depressed, defeated and she told me she really thought she had lost her chance to have a fulfilling life. Her aha moment happened on the job. Shes a nanny. So she had her kids she was taking care of, who she adored and cherished, at the playground and there were other mean spirited kids that started yelling nasty things about her weight. She felt at that moment it changed the relationship she had with her own kids because they lost respect for her. It was horrible. But she spurred into action. I will tell you her success is dependent on one word, support. She hired a trainer, she met with once a week, who supported her every single day, to today. She bonded with a gym rats at the gym and they gave her kudos every time she hit a milestone and her family, she set up a text chat every time she weighed herself, she sent the number off to all of her friends and family. And, of course, you know, no matter what it says, they were motivating. I cant wait to see her. Here is her before picture. Shes 123 pounds thinner look at you how do you feel . I feel amazing, yeah. Shes a personal trainer now and gets her inspiration from her clients. That is fantastic. How much exercise played in along with your eating habits . Six days a week. It is a lot. I love it. Good for you. 40 more pounds she wants to lose and there is no doubt shes going to hit ill send you guys photos. She has these crazy recipes. This is her hummus cookie dough. Yes. If you like it, ill tweet out the recipe. Hummus and cookie dough mixed up well, it is chickpeas. Is it good . All right. It tastes like cookie dough. It does. I cant believe it. Next we have 34yearold Cameron Marshall from irving, texas. In this picture, he weighs 382 ponds. He started gaining weight after high school, sort of like that single guy syndrome. He didnt have a cook, didnt know when to shop for and relied on fast food. Breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. His 4yearold nephew actually asked him all weepy, why cant you play with me . How come youre winded all the time. That did it for him. He jumped into action. Hell walk out here. He is 174 pounds slimmer and you wont recognize him. Come on out. Lets see. Oh, yeah. Show them the biceps. Awesome. Wow. Wow. So what does your nephew say now . Calm down. Im exhausted. Yeah, were able to do all the things that he likes to do now, which is im sorry, for me, it is a little this story is a little emotional for me. Of course it is. What an accomplishment though, god bless. Really changes. Three things he did, i want to show some of the strategic moves. He eats his sandwiches open face, he loses the top layer of bread and uses a fork and knife. It slows down the bites. He took a couple of things, salad toppers, that make boring rabbit food exciting, fruit, olives, slivered almonds, salsa. And hes still a guy. Guess what this is . It is a frozen meal. Hes doing healthy frozen meals. Those are available now for people. And frozen vegetables. It works. One choice at a time. Congrats. Congratulations to both of you all. Im sure youll tweet all this stuff out. Now is she still the top dog . Well find out in moments if geronimo set a new Guinness World record. We dont know. Now to the moment youve all been waiting for, did geronimo break her own Guinness World record of 113 double dutch skips in a minute . Sam valley is geronimos owner, mike jinella is the adjudicator, and that other guy we didnt introduce last time, rope holder, seth buchanan. Drum roll, please. Lets all look at mike. Mike . If we have the drum roll. Keep it going. Did she do it . Geronimo needed at least 114 skips to break the record. With 128, she did it yea oh, my gosh 128 . Shattered it awesome. Geronimo, you did it give her more. Congratulations. You guys, coming up tomorrow, a performance by martina mcbride. Great actor greg kinnear is here. And jorge posada and his Beautiful Life laura. And we have got some time on our hands. Well just can he do what else can he do . Dance. Dance. Dance for 30 seconds, please. Dance more. And keep dancing, geronimo. Lets everybody dance. Everybody. Lets do it. Happy anniversary, hoda. Happy anniversary to you. I love geronimo. Why cant blake do anything . Wow. Yes awesome. Well see you tomorrow. Whats tomorrow, hoda . Booze day tuesday. Right, exactly. Five more seconds. Have an awesome day, everybody. Really, just go out and make a great one, okay . Have a great day. Im here to help. You and i will get through this together. [applause]