The Surprising Way Dylan Dreyer Found Out About Hoda Kotb’s Exit

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Hoda Kotb’s determination to permission the Today show caught galore by surprise—including her workfellow Dylan Dreyer.

The meteorologist revealed she was unaware of Hoda’s plans to exit the greeting amusement until moments earlier the announcement was made on-air.

“I knew astir 10 minutes earlier the amusement started,” Dylan exclusively told E! News cohost Keltie Knight on the 2024 People’s Choice Country Award s reddish carpet Sept. 26. "Which, I think, is erstwhile everybody benignant of recovered out."

Earlier that day, Hoda shocked viewers when she tearfully announced that aft much than 16 years astatine Today—and 26 years with NBC News—she would accidental goodbye to her co-anchor relation successful aboriginal 2025.

“I realized that it was clip for maine to crook the leafage astatine 60, and to effort thing new,” Hoda, who turned 60 successful August, said done tears. “I remembered lasting extracurricular looking astatine these beauteous clump of radical with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, ‘This is what the apical of the question feels similar for me.’ And I thought it can't get better, and I decided that this is the close clip for maine to benignant of determination on.”

Moreover, the beloved daytime big said she wished to absorption connected her young daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, who she shares with ex Joel Schiffman.

“Obviously I had my kiddos precocious successful life, and I was reasoning that they merit a bigger portion of my clip pastry that I have,” she continued. “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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As for who mightiness capable the soon-to-be-vacant anchor role, Dylan predicted it could beryllium idiosyncratic from wrong the Today team, which includes Craig Melvin, Sheinelle Jones, Jenna Bush Hager, Carson Daly and Weekend Today co-anchors Peter Alexander and Laura Jarrett.

“We’ve each filled successful on the mode erstwhile somebody’s out,” she reasoned. “I don’t cognize if anybody’s made immoderate decisions yet, but if it’s 1 of the halfway group, I truly don’t deliberation it’s that surprising.”

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