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Hoda Kotb is buying and selling in wet New York Metropolis climate for the sunny seashores of Bermuda.
Kotb, 59, was absent from the Wednesday, Could 8, episode of In the present day, throughout which Savannah Guthrie defined, “Hoda’s in Bermuda with Jenna [Bush Hager], working exhausting.” Seemingly jealous of the pair’s tropical work task, cohost Craig Melvin quipped, “Yeah, or hardly working.”
Kotb revealed through Instagram on Wednesday morning that she was “about to hop on a flight,” including, “Introduced alongside an awesome e-book — good on your graduate! Bonnie Hammer is a legend within the TV enterprise … she is one among my trusted mentors who guided my profession.”
She continued: “With out Bonnie — I might not be the place I’m immediately …. and now all the classes she taught me are proper on the pages of this e-book! Xo.” (Kotb and Bush Hager, 42, interviewed Hammer, 74, about her e-book, 15 Lies Girls Are Instructed at Work, on In the present day With Hoda & Jenna two days prior.)
Hoda Kotb has typically gushed about how her family members have outlined her life — particularly her daughters, Haley and Hope. The In the present day anchor turned a mom when she adopted her little ones in 2017 and 2019, respectively, along with her then-partner, Joel Schiffman. The previous couple obtained engaged after six years of courting in 2019 […]
Kotb and Bush Hager introduced final month that they have been celebrating Mom’s Day by taking the fourth hour of In the present day to Bermuda for some particular episodes. “We’ve been ready for this journey,” Bush Hager said on the present’s April 22 episode. “We’ve been ready and ready, and it’s lastly right here.”
Noting that they have been “so excited” to journey for his or her “Bermuda bash,” Kotb added, “We’re gonna soak within the solar, we’re gonna benefit from the nightlife, we’re gonna buy groceries, we’re gonna be consuming, all of the issues.”
The cohosts later stunned a mother-daughter duo by revealing that they might be flown to Bermuda. Sponsored by The Loren Lodges, the Bermuda episodes will air on Thursday, Could 9, and Friday, Could 10, that includes celeb friends and highlighting Bermudian artists and neighborhood heroes.
Kotb and Bush Hager took their present on the highway earlier this yr by celebrating their fifth cohosting anniversary in New Orleans. “Day by day, it’s one thing completely different, one thing new, one thing we’re studying,” Kotb gushed to her cohost on the present’s April 8 episode earlier than touring for his or her Southern celebrations. “You’ve led me down a path due to individuals who you realize in your life and people who find themselves, sort of, healers who’ve helped heal me. And, I imply, it’s all meant to be. That is all meant to be.”
Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager Nathan Congleton/NBC
Kotb’s newest In the present day absence comes lower than one week after she and her fellow broadcasters Al Roker, Craig Melvin and Carson Daly obtained an early weekend by skipping the NBC morning present’s Friday, Could 3, episode. Third hour of In the present day hosts Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer stepped as much as fill in for the lacking stars.
Jones, 46, has continued to fill in for Daly, 50, whereas Wednesday marked Roker’s return. He was off on Monday, Could 6, and spent the Tuesday, Could 7’s episode in San Antonio, Texas.
