(26 Sep 2024)
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New York – 23 November 2023
1. Close of TODAY Show host Hoda Kotb on float
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New York – 14 October 2022
2. Various, Savannah Guthrie, left, and Hoda Kotb, right, posing
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New York – 13 January 2022
3. Various of left to right, Carson Daly, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker posing together
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New York – 28 January 2018
4. Various of Hoda Kotb posing solo and with daughter’s father Joel Schiffman
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New York – 2 December 2014
5. Various of Hoda Kotb posing
STORYLINE:
Hoda Kotb, a fixture at NBC for more than two decades, says she will leave her morning perch on the “Today" early next year, telling staffers “it’s time.”
In a memo to her team and later on air, Kotb said her 60th birthday this summer helped trigger the departure. "I saw it all so clearly: my broadcast career has been beyond meaningful, a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie.”
Kotb has co-anchored “Today” with Savannah Guthrie since 2018, filling in after Matt Lauer was fired amid sexual harassment allegations. She first joined NBC News as a correspondent for “Dateline” in 1998, and later joined “Today” in 2007.
Her goodbye note mentioned many of her co-workers, like Jenna Bush Hager and Al Roker: “Savannah: my rock. Jenna: my ride-or-die. Al: my longest friend at 30 Rock.”
“Happily and gratefully, I plan to remain a part of the NBC family, the longest work relationship I’ve been lucky enough to hold close to my heart. I’ll be around. How could I not? Family is family and you all will always be a part of mine,” she wrote.
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