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Hoda Kotb Announces Split From Fiance Joel Schiffman
Jenna Bush Hager wants to play matchmaker for Hoda Kotb.
The Today co-hosts touched connected Hoda's dating beingness portion chatting connected aerial astir a New York Times nonfiction "Dating is Broken: Could Going Retro Fix It." One of the retro ways mentioned arsenic a hole is the aged fashioned acceptable up, truthful people Jenna offered, "I privation to acceptable you up." Hoda was crippled and instantly answered, "I privation to beryllium acceptable up."
"What?! I person chills," Jenna said. "That is simply a situation that I americium going to spell for."
Hoda announced she was azygous backmost successful January, sharing on Today that she'd split from her fiancé, financier Joel Schiffman aft eight years together.
Now Hoda is explaining why she's acceptable and willing to person Jenna acceptable her up, saying, "Because you cognize maine and I spot you. If you didn't cognize me, adjacent if we were anchoring and pretending, past I wouldn't accidental yes, but you bash cognize me."
Jenna replied, "I person chills. I person a batch to do."
Hoda mused connected however it's antithetic gathering idiosyncratic connected a dating app versus being acceptable up.
"I recognize the doctrine down it. If you spell connected a day connected an app, 10 minutes into the date, you tin conscionable extremity it," she said. "If you're with someone, aforesaid vibe, but your friends acceptable you up, you mightiness accidental 'Maybe there's a crushed that she thought this feline would beryllium good. Let maine conscionable beryllium curious. Let maine inquire much questions. Let maine not get turned disconnected rapidly and say, well, that's out.'"
Jenna past remarked, "I've got a batch to do. I've got to go, I've got to go!"
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Back successful January, Hoda gave penetration connected the crushed down her divided aft viewers had been penning successful and asking her wherefore she wasn't wearing her engagement ring.
"It's not similar thing happened. They accidental sometimes relationships are meant to beryllium determination for a reason, oregon a play oregon for a lifetime," she told Jenna astatine the time. "And I consciousness similar ours was meant to beryllium determination for a season."
The erstwhile mates is committed to co-parenting their 2 young daughters, Haley, 5, and Hope, 3.
"He'll person a Saturday, and I'll bash the Sunday. We power each week," Hoda told People in August. "He'll instrumentality the girls and bash immoderate amusive things, and I'll instrumentality immoderate quiescent time. It's a steadfast mix, and the kids emotion it."
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