Hoda Kotb has finished her work on TODAY and Today With Hoda & Jenna
11 january 2025 в 21:13
Hoda Kotb officially began the next stage of her journey. The beloved NBC personality, a 60-year-old woman, spent her last day on the TODAY show and Today With Hoda & Jenna on Friday, January 10, 2025. Before leaving the show, Kotb hinted at her desire to spend more time in her personal life, especially with her two daughters, Hope and Haley Joy. After turning 60, she said during an interview on the show that she «felt it was time to try something new, and that means my kids will be around me more often».
Her duties on TODAY will be taken over by NBC journalist Craig Melvin. Until a permanent replacement is chosen, a rotating panel of substitutes will sit on Hoda & Jenna. In light of the news of her departure, does she currently have a partner? Who was Kotb previously associated with? We have information about her romantic history and relationships below.
Hoda was in a long-term relationship with fiancé Joel Schiffman before they split in early 2022. According to PEOPLE, Schiffman works in finance, and the former couple met in 2013 at an event on Wall Street that she didn’t particularly want to attend. «I asked someone from the place — I asked, 'Can you find out his situation?'» she confessed in a 2015 episode of Watch What Happens Live. «Because I knew nothing about him. I knew he didn’t have a wedding ring, but that’s all I knew. Then she wrote to him, and he wrote to me and invited me on a date».
They kept their relationship away from the public eye until 2015 to protect it. Hoda and Joel adopted two daughters, Haley in 2017 and Hope in 2019. In November 2019, Schiffman proposed during a beach dinner, with a planned wedding a year later. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted their plans. In 2022, they announced their split. The duo continues to peacefully co-parent their children, and according to Kotb, they remain friends. «Joel — one of the best people I know», - she said on an episode of the Jamie Kern Lima Show in August 2024. «He's really a great guy. And I feel like I’m a great person too. But sometimes two great people together aren’t enough to make it work».
According to Living New Orleans, Kotb married University of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in 2005. «I met him about a year and a half after I moved to New Orleans for a charity event for the American Heart Association on Valentine’s Day, and we were both single», - she said in a 2006 interview. «And of course, I moved to New York, but later we reconnected». She said at the time that family life was «wonderful». «We like to just wander around New York, go to Broadway shows, go to restaurants», - she said.
However, it was not meant to be, and the former couple divorced three years later, in 2008
Her duties on TODAY will be taken over by NBC journalist Craig Melvin. Until a permanent replacement is chosen, a rotating panel of substitutes will sit on Hoda & Jenna. In light of the news of her departure, does she currently have a partner? Who was Kotb previously associated with? We have information about her romantic history and relationships below.
Hoda was in a long-term relationship with fiancé Joel Schiffman before they split in early 2022. According to PEOPLE, Schiffman works in finance, and the former couple met in 2013 at an event on Wall Street that she didn’t particularly want to attend. «I asked someone from the place — I asked, 'Can you find out his situation?'» she confessed in a 2015 episode of Watch What Happens Live. «Because I knew nothing about him. I knew he didn’t have a wedding ring, but that’s all I knew. Then she wrote to him, and he wrote to me and invited me on a date».
They kept their relationship away from the public eye until 2015 to protect it. Hoda and Joel adopted two daughters, Haley in 2017 and Hope in 2019. In November 2019, Schiffman proposed during a beach dinner, with a planned wedding a year later. However, the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted their plans. In 2022, they announced their split. The duo continues to peacefully co-parent their children, and according to Kotb, they remain friends. «Joel — one of the best people I know», - she said on an episode of the Jamie Kern Lima Show in August 2024. «He's really a great guy. And I feel like I’m a great person too. But sometimes two great people together aren’t enough to make it work».
According to Living New Orleans, Kotb married University of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in 2005. «I met him about a year and a half after I moved to New Orleans for a charity event for the American Heart Association on Valentine’s Day, and we were both single», - she said in a 2006 interview. «And of course, I moved to New York, but later we reconnected». She said at the time that family life was «wonderful». «We like to just wander around New York, go to Broadway shows, go to restaurants», - she said.
However, it was not meant to be, and the former couple divorced three years later, in 2008
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