Hoda Kotb bid farewell to her “Today” co-hosts Friday during her last show as one of the morning program’s anchors. Kotb, 60, announced she would be leaving “Today” back in September after 26 years with NBC. Friday’s broadcast was an emotional one, capping off a week of special episodes dedicated to the beloved star.
“Brought to you by Kleenex,” Bush Hager stated to the live studio audience at the start of the show.Peter Alexander, Al Roker, Dylan Dreyer, Hoda Kotb , Jenna Bush Hager , Savannah Guthrie, Carson Daly, Laura Jarrett and Willie Geist on the NBC “Today” Show at Rockefeller Plaza on January 10, 2025.In honor of their last show together, Bush Hager read an emotional letter about their time as co-hosts.
“Thank you Hoda for everything you have taught me, everything you’ve given me: all the hugs, all the heart all the laughs, all the love,” Bush Hager concluded. “I will miss you my friend. But I love you and am so proud! Love always and forever, Jenna.” “We say ‘we’ for everything. I’ll tell mom friends, ‘We’re waiting ‘til 8th grade for phones.’ They’re like, ‘You and Henry?’ I’m like, ‘No, Hoda and me,’” Bush Hager quipped at the time. “But to have a ‘we’ is so profound at this stage in life. Everybody looks for a partner that will grow with them, and here we are.”
Kotb started in 2007 as a host of “Today’s” first fourth hour weekday morning and reflected on her decades-long career with the network “My time at NBC has been the longest professional love affair of my life,” she penned at the time. “But only because you’ve been beside me on this 26-year adventure. Looking back, the math is nuts. 26 years at NBC News — Ten years at ‘Dateline,’ seven on the seven o’clock hour, sixteen on the ten o’clock hour.
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