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Hoda Kotb Reveals Who She Wants to Replace Her On ‘Today’
It’s Today with Savannah Guthrie and…Craig Melvin.
The 45-year-old writer and longtime Today staple has officially been named Hoda Kotb’s anchor seat replacement for the 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. hours connected the NBC greeting amusement aft Kotb makes her exit successful 2025.
“Though you are irreplaceable successful our hearts, we are truthful excited astir the quality successful our Today family,” Guthrie told Kotb connected Nov. 14. “And that is the idiosyncratic sitting adjacent to me, our beloved person and talented, wonderful, hardworking, astir worthy of this, Craig Melvin is the caller anchor of the Today show.”
Kotb shared that her past time would beryllium January 10, 2025, arsenic the squad cheered connected Melvin’s appointment, which volition commencement connected Jan. 13.
“This is 1 of the astir fashionable decisions NBC News arsenic ever made,” Guthrie assured Melvin, noting that the Today household “broke into applause” erstwhile the announcement was made.
“I americium beyond excited and grateful,” Melvin said. “I had a batch of conversations yesterday with a batch of radical who mean a batch to me, and I privation to evidently convey NBC and the folks present who deemed maine worthy.”
He continued, “I’ve enjoyed a beingness of blessings, and this is the latest successful a agelong enactment of blessings.”
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Melvin expressed immense gratitude for his woman Lindsay Czarniak and their 2 kids Delano, 10, and Sybil, 8, arsenic good arsenic his parents, whom helium was blessed were live to witnesser “the fruits of their labor.”
During his clip successful the NBC News family, Melvin has held a assortment of roles astatine Today including play co-anchor, quality anchor, and cohost of the 3rd hr of Today.
Kotb archetypal announced her determination to measurement distant from her relation astatine Today successful September successful an effort to walk much clip with her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5.
"I get 1 ride, that's it," she explained to E! News successful October. "You lone got 1 life, right? You're the chooser."
(E! and NBC News are portion of the NBCUniversal family).
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