Kat Timpf announced she is coming back to work on Gutfeld! the day she posted an Instagram update, saying she will return to the show as she continues to grieve the unexpected death of her father.
Timpf, who is 37 years old, described the last year as devastating and bluntly summed up how she has been coping: "This has been the hardest time of my life. It’s not close. It’s horrible." Her father died "very unexpectedly" at age 69, she said, and she repeated what has driven her grief: "My dad didn’t deserve this."
She gave a sense of the personal toll in plain terms: "This is not my first rodeo losing a parent. Sadly, I have none left. Just 37 years old." She described how the death has replayed in small regrets and long silences — "I’ve spent my time off thinking about picking up the phone and calling my father." — and how she feels toward his memory: "He believed in me when no one else could or would."
Timpf laid out why she is returning now: "I’m letting you guys know that I’m coming back today to work" and, after a pause, "So I’m gonna come back. Maybe it helps." She thanked those who offered support: "And then I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who has taken the time to be kind to me throughout this."
Those details carry weight: a 37-year-old broadcaster saying she has lost both parents, a father described as "seemingly strong and healthy" before his sudden death, and a blunt admission that the loss remains raw — "I’m probably never gonna get over it, honestly." She also voiced both anger and sorrow on behalf of her family: "His grandson didn’t deserve this. I’m very upset."
The context is simple and sharp: Timpf said her father "sacrificed a lot for all of his kids" and that "I’m only where I am because of my dad." The decision to return to Gutfeld! is presented not as a professional obligation but as a choice to seek distraction and purpose amid grief — a way, in her words, to try to honor what he believed in her to be: "And I have no choice but to spend the rest of my life trying to make him proud."
The friction in the moment is immediate. She is heading back on air while admitting the loss is still incomprehensible: "But losing my dad suddenly, completely suddenly, out of nowhere, he’s healthy, active, regularly going to the doctor. It’s just incomprehensible." Her plan to work sits beside another of her plain answers about how she feels when people ask: "Bad." That tension — between returning to routine and surviving a private, continuing grief — is the story.
Timpf’s return is therefore an answer, not a postponement: she said she is coming back today to Gutfeld! to see if work helps, and she framed that choice as an act of loyalty to the man who believed in her. For now, she will be on air while carrying both the loss and the promise she made aloud — to try to make him proud.
