Hoda Kotb, a beloved mainstay of NBC News’ “TODAY” for almost twenty years, introduced on Thursday that she’s going to step down from the community’s flagship morning present after six years as co-anchor.
She mentioned she made the choice after turning 60 in August. “I spotted it was time for me to show the web page at 60 and take a look at one thing new,” she mentioned, combating again tears.
Kotb has co-anchored “TODAY” with Savannah Guthrie since early 2018. They have been the present’s first all-female anchor workforce.
Guthrie, visibly emotional, mentioned the “TODAY” workforce doesn’t “wish to think about this place with out you.” Guthrie praised Kotb for her “guts” and mentioned she is cherished by all her colleagues.
In a written message to her colleagues, Kotb mentioned her daughters and her mom “want and deserve an even bigger slice of my time pie.”
“I’ll miss you all desperately,” she wrote, “however I’m prepared and excited.”
Kotb mentioned she would stick with “TODAY” by means of the beginning of subsequent 12 months. She paid tribute to her colleagues and joked that the “Peacock’s feathers are by no means ruffled … irrespective of who comes or goes,” referring to NBC’s emblem.
Kotb joined NBC News as a correspondent for “Dateline” in 1998. She went on to cowl a wide selection of home and worldwide information tales earlier than becoming a member of the “TODAY” workforce in 2007, co-hosting the present’s fourth hour alongside Kathie Lee Gifford.
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