Today Show’s Dylan Dreyer Shares Who Could Replace Hoda Kotb

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Hoda Kotb Tearfully Announces She's Leaving the Today Show Early Next Year

Meteorologist Dylan Dreyer has a forecast connected who mightiness fill Today’s soon-to-be bare anchor chair.

Shortly aft longtime big Hoda Kotb tearfully announced connected Sept. 26 that she volition beryllium stepping distant from her co-anchor duties, her Third Hour of Today workfellow Dylan had immoderate penetration connected who mightiness regenerate the idiosyncratic she called the "heart and psyche of The Today Show.”

And according to Dylan, Today is “such a family” that she believes immoderate of the squad members—who see Craig MelvinSheinelle JonesJenna Bush HagerCarson Daly and Weekend Today coanchors Peter Alexander and Laura Jarrett—have the endowment to instrumentality implicit alongside co-anchor Savannah Guthrie.

"I don’t deliberation if they named anyone successful our halfway radical of radical it would beryllium surprising," Dylan exclusively told E! News cohost Keltie Knight at the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards on Sept. 26. "We’ve each filled successful on the mode erstwhile somebody’s out. I don’t cognize if anybody’s made immoderate decisions yet, but if it’s 1 of the halfway group, I truly don’t deliberation it’s that surprising."

As for whether she's eyeing the role, the upwind forecasater quipped, "Everybody knows I'm trying to get Al Roker to retire, let’s beryllium honest."

But the quality of Hoda’s departure, connected the different hand, came arsenic a surprise.

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"I knew astir 10 minutes earlier the amusement started," Dylan said. "Which, I think, is erstwhile everybody benignant of recovered out."

But contempt the unexpected news, respective members of The Today Show were connected manus to enactment Hoda—who is ma to daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5—as she delivered the update connected air.

"I realized that it was clip for maine to crook the leafage astatine 60, and to effort thing new," Hoda said done tears. "I remembered lasting extracurricular looking astatine these beauteous clump of radical with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, 'This is what the apical of the question feels similar for me.' And I thought it can't get better, and I decided that this is the close clip for maine to benignant of determination on."

She went connected to stock that she plans to absorption much connected her family.

"Obviously I had my kiddos precocious successful life, and I was reasoning that they merit a bigger portion of my clip pastry that I have," she continued. "I consciousness similar we lone person a finite magnitude of time. And so, with each that being said, this is the hardest happening successful the world."

Read connected to spot Dylan and each the different celebrities that graced the reddish carpet of the People’s Choice Country Awards.

(E!, Today, NBC and Peacock are each portion of the NBCUniversal family.)

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Shania Twain

In customized Levi's.

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Kelsea Ballerini

In Roberto Cavalli.

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Shaboozey

In Valentino and Celine boots.

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Miranda Lambert

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mgk (Machine Gun Kelly)

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Carly Pearce

In Di Petsa, Tony Bianco shoes and Melinda Maria jewelry.

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Kaitlyn Bristowe

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Brandi Cyrus

In Cavanagh Baker.

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Alana Springsteen

In Kim Shui from Revolve.

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Jason Tartick

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Lady A

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Chase Stokes

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Victoria Fuller

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Matt Rife

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Annie Bosko

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Chase Rice

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Dan + Shay

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Reyna Roberts

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Dasha

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Mason Ramsey

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Tiera Kennedy

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Ella Langley

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Bailey Zimmerman

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Lanie Gardner

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Scotty McCreery

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Craig Conover

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Ashley Cooke

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Montana Boyz

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Old Dominion

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Hunter Hayes

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