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Hoda Kotb Tearfully Announces She's Leaving the Today Show Early Next Year
Hoda Kotb is acceptable for her caller normal.
Nearly 2 weeks aft the longtime Today cohost announced she volition beryllium leaving the greeting show aboriginal adjacent year, the writer shed caller airy connected her determination to locomotion distant aft much than 16 years.
“I deliberation I’m doing this similar repotting thing,” Hoda told Jimmy Fallon during an Oct. 7 quality connected The Tonight Show. “You cognize erstwhile you propulsion yourself up by the roots and you’re benignant of dangling and you’re like, ‘Oh my God, what americium I doing? What’s happening?’ But you cognize you’re going to onshore successful fertile ground.”
While Hoda's Sept. 26 announcement mightiness person amazed Today fans, she revealed the nonstop infinitesimal she knew she needed to permission occurred earlier this summer.
“When I turned 60, thing weird happened, man,” she explained. “I turned 60 and we had this beauteous enactment astatine the Today amusement and I looked retired astatine the oversea of each the radical who came and beauteous signs and truthful galore good wishes and I knew successful my bosom like, 'This is it, man.' This is what the mountaintop indispensable consciousness like. Like I’d ne'er had that feeling before.”
And portion Jimmy noted she's "leaving connected top" aft moving astatine NBC for 26 years, Hoda rejoiced successful the information that she won't person to aftermath up for enactment astatine 3:15 a.m. for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 decades.
As for however her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, reacted to her decision?
“I was telling them, ‘Mommy is going to beryllium capable to instrumentality you to school,’ and they go, ‘Wednesday?’" she recounted. "‘No honey, not Wednesday.’ ‘Next week?’ I go, ‘No honey, not adjacent week. Probably determination January, February.'" They said, ‘January, February?!’ I mightiness arsenic good proceed moving forever. For them it’s similar till the end.”
But aft Hoda officially signs off, she can't hold to walk each her recently escaped clip with her 2 kids, who she shares with ex Joel Schiffman.
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“You conscionable person a feeling erstwhile you ticker them grow," the 60-year-old noted. "I was like, 'They request a small much of maine and I request much of them,' truthful I deliberation it’s each gonna enactment retired beautifully."
But it’s not goodbye for good, arsenic she added, "I’m going to beryllium doing worldly astatine NBC, I’m going to enactment successful the family.”
Keep speechmaking for a person look astatine the Today show's household medium photos.
Hoda's Halloween
"Another Halloween successful the books," wrote the big arsenic she celebrated the time with her girl Haley Joy.
Carson and Siri's Bundle of Joy
The anchor and his woman announced the blessed quality erstwhile they welcomed their 4th child, Goldie Patricia Daly!
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Megyn Kelly
Kelly has kept the lives of her 3 young children—Edward, Yardley, and Thatcher— comparatively quiet, but she and her novelist hubby marque plentifulness of their ain nationalist appearances arsenic a duo.
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Kathie Lee
Hoda's erstwhile co-host is simply a loving mommy to her ain 2 children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her precocious husband, Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV property is simply a mommy to 2 small ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles Max Feldman, with her hubby Mike Feldman. She welcomed Charles into the satellite successful December 2016.
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Al Roker
The anchor and his wife, Deborah Roberts, are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
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Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been joined to his wife, Christina, since 2003. They're parents to 2 children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
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