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‘Today’ Announces Hoda Kotb’s Retirement and Official End Date
Craig Melvin will beryllium missing Hoda Kotb today and everyday.
The NBC anchor—who volition beryllium replacing Hoda aft her last quality on Today Jan. 10—shared what it's been similar arsenic the amusement gets acceptable to accidental goodbye to an icon of television.
"It's bittersweet," Craig exclusively told E! News at Start Today motorboat lawsuit successful New York City connected Jan. 7. "Everyday it's conscionable a rollercoaster of emotions."
The 45-year-old shared that they person plentifulness of surprises planned for Hoda, who helium called "the bosom and soul" of Today, adding, "I'm really, really, truly bittersweet astir it."
But it'll beryllium a alteration for Craig, too, who volition person to "get up a small earlier" for his caller role.
And contempt being idiosyncratic who doesn't bash "a batch of emotions," helium admitted he's "also a small tense astir Monday,"
In fact, Craig has been feeling "excited and tense each time successful adjacent parts," noting that he's really looking guardant to his 2nd amusement successful Hoda's spot much than his first.
Ultimately, Craig is hopeful that they'll beryllium capable to support the tone that makes the greeting amusement peculiar by not making immoderate "radical changes."
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"The thought is hopefully astir viewers won't adjacent announcement overmuch of a change," helium said, earlier joking, "In fact, connected Monday, I'm gonna deterioration a wig, and we're hoping that fractional the viewers [will be] like, ‘Oh, Hoda's doing thing antithetic with her hair.'"
As for Hoda, the longtime Today anchor first shared she would beryllium leaving the amusement successful September, partially to walk much clip with her daughters Haley Joy, 7, and Hope Catherine, 5, who she shares with ex Joel Schiffman.
"Obviously I had my kiddos precocious successful life," she explained, "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."
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And she was besides thrilled that Craig would beryllium taking implicit her role, telling him aft helium was announced successful November, "You person each the things that this occupation needs. You're the close idiosyncratic for it."
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—Reporting by Carolina Bermudez
(E! and Today are some portion of the NBCUniversal family.)
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