Who Will Replace Hoda Kotb on TODAY?

We’ve had a mates days present to fto the quality descend in:

Hoda Kotb is leaving The Today Show.

After 17 years, the co-host stunned viewers connected September 26 by stating the following:

“I realized that it was clip for maine to crook the leafage astatine 60, and to effort thing new.”

Hoda Kotb greets assemblage members during Chris Stapleton’s show connected NBC’s “Today” astatine Rockefeller Plaza connected September 27, 2024 successful New York City. (Photo by Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

Kotb besides referenced her young children portion making her announcement, making it wide she needed to walk much clip with her 5 and seven-year old.

Perfectly understandable, of course.

The reported volition stay down the Today Show table until January 1 and volition past stay wrong the “NBC family” successful immoderate capacity.

But present we’re forced to inquire an evident question: Who volition regenerate Hota Kotb?

Hoda Kotb announces present that she is leaving the TODAY show. (Nathan Congleton / TODAY)

“The large contender who everyone astatine the web is talking astir is Laura Jarrett — she has a truly beardown chance,” an NBC insider has told Us Weekly.

“She’s the anchor of Weekend Today; she is simply a lawyer similar [Kotb’s coanchor] Savannah [Guthrie]. She’s a darling astatine the Today amusement who has risen up precise quickly.“

Laura is 40 years aged and her mother, Valerie Jarrett, served arsenic Barack Obama’s elder advisor during his administration.

She replaced Kristen Welker arsenic co-anchor of Today Show’s Saturday sum successful September 2023.

Hoda Kotb attends the 2024 US Open astatine USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center connected September 8, 2024 successful New York City. (Photo by John Nacion/Getty Images)

Other options besides enactment for NBC these days.

There’s Craig Melvin and there’s Carson Daly, according to this aforesaid source.

“The different enactment is they could determination astir anchors,” the insider explains. “They could enactment Craig with Savannah, oregon they could enactment [3rd Hour Today cohost] Sheneille [Jones] with Savannah.

We’ve besides heard buzz astir these parts astir Political and National analogous Jacob Soboroff, on with NBC News Now anchor Tom Llamas.

Both of these personalities are considered rising stars — and executives are alert that Al Roker, Lester Holt and Dateline’s Keith Morrison each whitethorn discontinue successful the adjacent future.

Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb astatine The Empire State Building connected April 8, 2024 successful New York City. (Photo by Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images for Empire State Realty Trust)

For her part, Meteorologist Dylan Dreyer spoke to E! News and was asked to forecast who mightiness capable Today’s soon-to-be bare anchor chair.

“I don’t deliberation if they named anyone successful our halfway radical of radical it would beryllium surprising,” she told to Keltie Knight astatine the 2024 People’s Choice Country Awards, keeping things diplomatic and adding:

“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.”

Said Kotb upon revealing her aboriginal plans:

“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.

“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.”