It’s the tip of an period at NBC’s At present. Beloved host Hoda Kotb has introduced that her time on the present will quickly come to an finish.
“I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new,” she mentioned.
At present host Hoda Kotb attends the 2022 Sesame Workshop Profit Gala at Cipriani forty second Avenue on June 01, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Theo Wargo/Getty Photos)
Hoda Kotb Recollects Second She Determined to Step Down
Hoda says she made the choice to step away from tv (at the least for now) on her sixtieth birthday in August.
“I remembered standing outside looking at these beautiful bunch of people with these gorgeous signs. And I thought, ‘This is what the top of the wave feels like for me,’” she mentioned.
“And I thought it can’t get better, and I decided that this is the right time for me to kind of move on.”
Hoda defined that she’s motivated primarily by her resolution to spend extra time along with her daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5.
TV character Hoda Kotb attends the “Halftime” Premiere in the course of the Tribeca Pageant Opening Night time on June 08, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos for Tribeca Pageant)
Hoda Plans to Spend Extra Time With Her Household
“Obviously I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have,” she mentioned.
“I feel like we only have a finite amount of time. And so, with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world.”
Hoda revealed that she’s going to proceed anchoring At present with co-host Savannah Guthrie till January 1, 2025.
Hoda Kotb moderates the Gymnastics panel in the course of the Workforce USA Media Summit at Marriott Marquis Resort on April 15, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Dustin Satloff/Getty Photos for the USOPC)
“It’s kind of a big deal for me,” Hoda tearfully continued. “I’ve been practicing so I wouldn’t cry, but anyway, I did.”
Hoda’s Historical past
After beginning her NBC profession at Dateline within the late ’90s, Hoda has spent 16 years co-hosting the fourth hour of At present, first with Kathie Lee Gifford after which with Jenna Bush Hager.
Since 2017, she’s co-anchored the primary hour of At present, a job she’s shared with Guthrie since 2018.
Hoda Kotb attends the twenty seventh Annual Webby Awards at Cipriani Wall Avenue on Could 15, 2023 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos)
Kotb additionally shared a heartfelt letter that she penned to her At present colleagues forward of this morning’s announcement:
“As I write this, my heart is all over the map. I know I’m making the right decision, but it’s a painful one. And you all are the reason why,” Hoda wrote.
“They are saying two issues may be proper on the identical time, and I’m feeling that so deeply proper now. I really like you and it’s time for me to depart the present.
Hoda Kotb attends the seventieth anniversary celebration of NBC’s “Today” at The Paley Heart for Media on Could 11, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Photos)
“My time at NBC has been the longest professional love affair of my life. But only because you’ve been beside me on this twenty-six-year adventure.”
We all know we converse for tens of millions of At present viewers once we say Hoda can be vastly missed.
We are able to’t wait to see what awaits her on this thrilling new stage of her life.
