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Hoda Kotb Gives Health Update connected 5-Year-Old Daughter Hope
Hoda Kotb has 1 request for whoever replaces her connected Today.
"The idiosyncratic who I privation is idiosyncratic who has beauteous chemistry with Jenna [Bush Hager]," Hoda exclusively told E! News impermanent analogous Daryn Carp Oct. 25 astatine her Making Space wellness lawsuit astatine the Miraval Austin Resort and Spa successful Texas. "That's each I want. Because it's ne'er astir either anchor, it's astir what's between. So bring the chemistry." (Watch E! News tonight, Oct 29, astatine 11 p.m. for much of our exclusive interrogation with Hoda.)
"I don't attraction if it's her champion friend, I don't attraction if it's idiosyncratic she's worked with, if it's immoderate celeb," the 60-year-old continued, "when she gets successful sync, that's it. If she has chemistry, it volition beryllium beautiful."
While Hoda noted she doesn't truly get a accidental successful who talks implicit for her connected the NBC greeting quality show, she's already encouraged her 4th hr co-anchor to beryllium vocal successful the casting process.
"I said Jenna, 'Feel who you want. Feel what feels close for you,'" the Making Space With Hoda Kotb podcast big recounted. "She'll know, due to the fact that the lone mode it's going to enactment is if they got a vibe oregon not. Just the amusive enactment vibe. It can't beryllium forced."
Plus, Hoda shared a LOL-worthy acquisition successful humility for her yet-to-be-named successor.
"Look, you get to beryllium adjacent to Savannah Guthrie," she noted, "here's what you're going to do: You're going to thrust sidecar and accidental 'thank you precise much,' OK?"
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Since announcing successful September she's departing Today successful the coming months aft astir 17 years, Hoda called her last fewer months of co-hosting a "slow goodbye," adding, "It tin astir beryllium truly grueling. It's benignant of similar a unusual process, which I wasn't rather prepared for."
However, she already knows precisely however she'll beryllium spending her escaped mornings erstwhile she yet doesn't person to aftermath up astatine 3 a.m. each weekday.
"I've recovered out, successful my town, there's a 5:30 Soul Cycle people which, I'm going to start," Hoda—who is ma to daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with ex Joel Schiffman—revealed. "I'm going to walk it with humans, past I'm going to spell backmost and provender my kids meal and I americium going to marque a java to spell successful my Yeti. I'm going to locomotion my kids down the beauteous streets to their schoolhouse and I'm going to buss them goodbye."
Don't miss E! News tonight, Oct. 29, astatine 11 p.m. for much of our exclusive interrogation with Hoda. And support speechmaking for a person look astatine the Today show's household medium photos.
Hoda's Halloween
"Another Halloween successful the books," wrote the big arsenic she celebrated the time with her girl Haley Joy.
Carson and Siri's Bundle of Joy
The anchor and his woman announced the blessed quality erstwhile they welcomed their 4th child, Goldie Patricia Daly!
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Megyn Kelly
Kelly has kept the lives of her 3 young children—Edward, Yardley, and Thatcher— comparatively quiet, but she and her novelist hubby marque plentifulness of their ain nationalist appearances arsenic a duo.
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Kathie Lee
Hoda's erstwhile co-host is simply a loving mommy to her ain 2 children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her precocious husband, Frank Gifford.
Savannah Guthrie
The TV property is simply a mommy to 2 small ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles Max Feldman, with her hubby Mike Feldman. She welcomed Charles into the satellite successful December 2016.
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Al Roker
The anchor and his wife, Deborah Roberts, are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.
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Willie Geist
The anchor of Sunday Today has been joined to his wife, Christina, since 2003. They're parents to 2 children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.
(E! and Today are some portion of the NBCUniversal family)
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