Hoda Kotb Tearfully Announces She's Leaving the Today Show Early Next Year

Despite being heartbroken implicit the quality that Hoda Kotb is leaving Today adjacent year, Savannah Guthrie knows the amusement indispensable spell on.

"I deliberation we’re truthful fortunate due to the fact that we bash person specified a large seat astatine NBC," Savannah exclusively told E! News astatine Project Healthy Minds' World Mental Health Day Gala successful NYC Oct. 10. "We’re not conscionable 1 idiosyncratic oregon 2 people. We’re a full ensemble, a full family. I consciousness truly bully that the amusement is coagulated and that we’re successful large things."

But that doesn't mean she and remaining NBC greeting quality anchors Al Roker, Craig Melvin, Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones won't miss Hoda and her eternally upbeat property terribly.

"I deliberation Hoda is irreplaceable," Savannah gushed of her longtime coworker and friend. "But I consciousness excited astir the future."

Hoda shocked Today fans past period erstwhile she tearfully announced she volition beryllium departing the show successful aboriginal 2025 during the Sept. 26 broadcast.

And portion Hoda is taking clip disconnected to beryllium with her family, Savannah revealed balances raising 2 kids and a demanding occupation by carving retired tiny moments of self-care.

"It doesn’t person to beryllium a large happening like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna spell get a massage,'" the 52-year-old—who shares kids Vale, 10, and Charley, 7, with hubby Michael Feldman—shared. "Sometimes we don’t person clip to adjacent bash that. I honestly deliberation it’s a heavy breath. It’s sitting for a infinitesimal and conscionable checking successful with yourself like, ‘How bash I consciousness close now? What’s successful my heart? What’s connected my mind?’"

"One small workout tin marque specified a immense difference," she added. "We don’t request to load up much anxiousness connected apical of not handling our anxiety. So, I think, beryllium gentle with ourselves, amusement ourselves immoderate grace. That’s the archetypal rule of self-care."

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