Kathie Lee Giffordhas officially taken her last sip of wine on theTodayshow.

Gifford, 65, delivered her final broadcast as the host of the show’s popular fourth hour on Friday. She bid farewell to her co-host and close friendHoda Kotband the rest of theTodaycrew, marking her 11-year anniversary with the network.

After a special performance from Flo Rida, who turned his hit “My House” turned into “Kathie Lee’s House,” Gifford sat down with Kotb, 54.

“I feel great, I do,” she said. “The last two weeks, since of this crazy stuff began, I had no expectations. You want to bear it well. You want to honor the Lord with whatever you say and do, but you also want to have fun and remind people of why this show worked in the beginning. Because we have fun and we have a friendship and it’s real.”

Kotb said the reason their show has worked is all thanks to Gifford, pointing out that two of the most successful morning shows of all time were theirs and Gifford’s show withRegis Philbin,Live! with Regis and Kathie Lee.

“Two shows have worked really well in the history of daytime television: Regis and Kathie Lee, and Kathie Lee and me,” she said. “So what is the common denominator between those two?!”

Gifford’s former co-host Philbin, 87, also made an appearance via video message, calling their 15 years on air together the “best part” of his television career.

“He called me yesterday,” Gifford revealed. “We had a lovely talk.”

Last but not least, Gifford was surprised with a touching segment courtesy of her son Cody, 29, and daughter Cassidy, 25, who opened up about growing up with the television icon and their father, the lateFrank Gifford.

“You did so many things right in your life but Cody and Cass — that was the most right,” Kotb told Gifford, tearing up.

Finally, they brought the wholeTodayshow cast on stage for a final toast.

Gifford, whofirst announced her departurein December, recently opened up to PEOPLE about herdecision to leave the show, admitting it’s been harder than expected.

“I thought I’d stay a year and here it is 11 years later,” she said. “And in those 11 years, a lot of life has happened.”

Gifford said she realized it was time to make a change in her life after she began writing and producing Christian songs and films (her filmLove Me to Death, co-starring Craig Ferguson, comes out this month).

“The work that I want to do isn’t here anymore,” she said. “I am an artist, I’m an actress, I’m a writer, I’m a songwriter, a director now. That’s the stuff that feeds my soul and I know that I’m running out of time to do those things.”

Leaving the show behind (former first daughterJenna Bush Hager, 37, is set tostep in as co-hostalongside Kotb on April 8) “is bittersweet,” Gifford said, “but I fell in love withthe peopleand I intend to take them with me wherever I go.”

source: people.com