NBC’s Hoda Kotb announced she would be leaving NBC’s TODAY in the beginning of 2025. Kotb has been part of NBC News for almost three decades.
Kotb began on Dateline in 1998 as a correspondent and joined the TODAY team in 2007 when she co-hosted the fourth hour with then co-host Kathie Lee Gifford, now Jenna Bush Hager. Kotb then stepped in for Matt Lauer in 2017 and began co-hosting the first two hours of TODAY alongside Savannah Guthrie.
Kotb said after turning 60 in August, “I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new.” Kotb wants to spend more time with her young daughters ages 7 and 5. “Obviously I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have. I feel like we only have a finite amount of time… And so, with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world,” she said.
Kotb added she would have an unspecified role with NBC and would be “staying in the NBC family.”
By - FZ
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