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As Hoda Kotb prepares to exit her anchor relation connected the Today show, Ali Wong revealed she has conscionable the feline for the TV host: comedian Eric André.
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Ali Wong is acceptable to play cupid for Hoda Kotb.
During an quality connected the Today amusement Oct. 9, the Beef prima told Hoda and co-host Jenna Bush Hager she had the cleanable lucifer successful caput for the longtime quality anchor.
“Eric André is, like, obsessed with you,” the Emmy victor said. “He’s a colorful dresser. He’s the big of his ain show.”
When a photo of the comedian dressed arsenic Hoda flashed onscreen, Ali exclaimed, “Look astatine him! Look astatine him paying homage to you!”
As the co-hosts pressed the Always Be My Maybe prima connected wherefore Eric, 41, would formal up arsenic Hoda, tk age—who announced her plans to leave Today aboriginal adjacent year—her reply was simple.
“Because helium loves Hoda,” she continued. “I asked him, erstwhile I was talking to him astir dating, I was like, ‘What is your type?’ And helium responded, ‘Hoda Kotb.’”
The Big Mouth prima went connected to database respective qualities that marque Hoda specified a catch, declaring, “You person a career, you’re secure, you’re beautiful!”
While the broadcast seasoned volition person much clip connected her hands erstwhile she fulfills her greeting TV duties, she’s already made wide she plans to walk that clip with her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, who she shares with ex Joel Schiffman.
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“It does make much consciousness to enactment astatine NBC,” she told People successful an interrogation published Oct. 9. “I'm financially unafraid and I would person occupation security. I mean, wherefore would you ever not bash that? But I've been watching my kids and I was reasoning to myself, I wonderment what I'm missing?”
Hoda—who ended her engagement to Joel successful 2022—said she realized she simply wanted to beryllium much contiguous for her girls.
“There’s the guilt you transportation due to the fact that you can't beryllium 100 percent astatine enactment and 100 percent astatine home,” she went on. “Something has to springiness if you privation excellence. If you're going to beryllium fantabulous astatine work, thing has to springiness astatine home. And if you privation to beryllium fantabulous astatine home, I mean excellent, and bash each the things, thing has to springiness astatine work. It can't beryllium equal.”
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