What Hoda Kotb’s departure ‘today’ means for the Star Anchor era

On Thursday, Hoda Kotbthe much loved and perpetually exuberant Today co-host of the show, sat teary-eyed on the couch in Studio 1A among her colleagues and revealed that she would be leaving the show early next year. In the subgenre of Today farewells, this was as genuinely harmonious and well-composed an outing as the network’s suits could have hoped for, a far cry from the infamous clumsiness Anna Curry departure, obviouslynot to mention the Matt Lauer cancellation that foreshadowed Hoda’s own rise to the presidency. Tears, praise and declarations of love flowed unhindered. Savannah Guthrie called Hoda “our sun” Al Roker He called it “our North Star.”

Hoda had decided to resign in August, she said, upon turning 60. She had reached “the top of the wave” and decided it was time to give her children “a bigger slice of my time pie.” Of course, everyone that is indisputably true. hoda is get to the top; In fact, thanks to the Olympic Games, Today just win Good morning America in the quarter for the first time since she started hosting in 2018, and 60 is a reasonable time to start pivoting toward life’s true pleasures. (Hell, Woj She just did it at 55.) In fact, I’m reliably told that Hoda had considered the idea of ​​leaving NBC on the occasion of her 50 birthday too.