Hoda Kotb Announces She's Leaving Today After More Than 16 Years

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Hoda Kotb is opening up astir her caller chapter.

After astir 2 decades with the Today show, the longtime big has tearfully shared she's stepping distant from the quality desk.

"My clip astatine NBC has been the longest nonrecreational emotion matter of my life," she wrote successful a missive published by Today Sept. 26. "But lone due to the fact that you’ve been beside maine connected this twenty-six-year adventure. Looking back, the mathematics is nuts. 26 years astatine NBC News — Ten years astatine 'Dateline,' 7 connected the 7 o’clock hour, sixteen connected the 10 o’clock hour.

"I’m picturing your faces and your families and each the ways you’ve lifted maine up and inspired me," she continued. "That’s my bosom singing. So galore of my nonrecreational relationships person go immoderate of my astir cherished friendships."

She noted, "I’ve been weighing this determination for rather a portion — Am I genuinely ready? But, my sixtieth day celebration on the Plaza felt similar a shift. Like a massive, joyful YES, you are! I saw it each truthful clearly: my broadcast vocation has been beyond meaningful, a caller decennary of my beingness lies ahead, and present my daughters and my ma request and merit a bigger portion of my clip pie. I volition miss you each desperately, but I’m acceptable and excited."

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