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After Hoda Kotb announced her plans to exit the Today show, Law & Order: SVU prima Mariska Hargitay offered to measurement into the anchor’s chair.
By Will Reid Oct 01, 2024 6:50 PMTags
Hoda Kotb Tearfully Announces She's Leaving the Today Show Early Next Year
Mariska Hargitay is much than blessed to instrumentality connected this task.
The Law & Order: SVU prima precocious reacted to Hoda Kotb announcing that she would permission the Today amusement successful aboriginal 2025.
“I emotion you truthful overmuch and I’m truthful arrogant and inspired by you, and was truthful excited to spot you today,” the histrion told Hoda and co-host Savannah Guthrie connected Today Oct. 1. “And I’m truthful grateful to beryllium capable to accidental that.”
“When you made your decision, I said, ‘Yes,’” Mariska gushed. “And, my gosh, I grieve for each of america successful this state who’s gonna miss you, and astir of all, [Savannah].”
The Emmy victor adjacent offered to instrumentality implicit Hoda’s anchor duties, telling the co-hosts she was “happy to measurement successful anytime.”
Mariska—who kicks disconnected her 26th play arsenic Olivia Benson connected the procedural play Oct. 3—also noted her and Hoda’s akin enactment anniversary. “We’re 26 years unneurotic baby,” she said, referring to the journalist’s 1998 commencement astatine NBC arsenic a analogous connected Dateline. “And we’re 60 together, baby.”
Hoda, who turned 60 successful August, cited her milestone day arsenic 1 of the factors that influenced her determination to permission Today.
“I realized that it was clip for maine to crook the leafage astatine 60, and to effort thing new,” she revealed connected aerial Sept. 26. “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.”
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She besides expressed her tendency to absorption connected her family, namely her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5.
“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 said. “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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