Hoda Kotb Names Her Favourite ‘In the present day’ Present Alternative Choices
Hoda Kotb could have left behind her In the present day cohosting job, however she’s bought some robust opinions on who ought to fill her footwear.
Showing on the Thursday, June 5 version of Watch What Occurs Dwell with Andy Cohen, Kotb, 60, weighed in on who she believed are the highest potential candidates to be her alternative alongside Jenna Bush Hager.
Kotb ended her 17-year run on the NBC morning present in January 2025, after which Craig Melvin changed her as Savannah Guthrie’s information coanchor. Bush Hager, in the meantime, relaunched the present’s fourth hour as In the present day With Jenna & Associates and has been joined by cohosts akin to Scarlett Johansson, Taraji P. Henson, Keke Palmer, Amy Poehler, Dwyane Wade and extra.
“Anyone could be so fortunate. However to me, the contenders are Savannah, I feel she could be nice. I feel Justin Sylvester is wonderful,” she stated on WWHL.
Whereas Jenna Bush Hager is having enjoyable internet hosting the fourth hour of In the present day together with her superstar friends, many followers nonetheless marvel who will completely take over Hoda Kotb’s former function. Kotb ended her 17-year run on the NBC morning present in January 2025, after which Craig Melvin changed her as Savannah Guthrie’s information coanchor. Bush […]
Whereas Kotb agreed with Cohen, 57, that whereas it could be unlikely that Marvel star Johansson could be eager to fill the function fulltime, she was an enormous fan of how the actress carried out as a brief alternative.
“Scarlett Johansson crushed it,” Kotb enthused. “She stated it was her favourite job.”
Kotb continued: “And Matt Rogers is nice. And likewise our pricey pal Sheinelle Jones who’s going via a horrible time however I feel she could be good. I really feel prefer it’s whoever clicks nice with Jenna.”
Andy Cohen and Hoda Kotb. (Photograph by Craig Barritt/Getty Photos for Pleasure 101)
The TV persona additionally addressed the hypothesis at present circulating that she may very well be taking up The Kelly Clarkson Present after an viewers member questioned her about it — however didn’t verify or deny she’s set to have her personal discuss present.
“Are you speaking in regards to the Kelly Clarkson rumor? Okay. I really feel like Kelly is in a category all by herself. I imply my complete factor with discuss reveals and all that stuff is. I’m a ‘by no means say by no means’ particular person,” Kotb stated. “You don’t know what life’s going to carry you however at this second I’m having such enjoyable with the experience that I’m on. However that — TV — is my old flame in order I say in life, you don’t know.”
Scarlett Johansson has mentioned who she believes ought to function Jenna Bush Hager’s everlasting In the present day cohost. In a canopy story for InStyle journal, revealed on Tuesday, March 11, the actress, 40, agreed that the NBC information program wants someone “spicy,” including herself that In the present day’s Hager, 43, “must be with somebody humorous.” Johansson, who cohosted […]
In the meantime, Bush Hager, 43, lately instructed Us it may take some time till the fourth hour of In the present day picks a everlasting alternative for Kotb.
“We’re sort of stoked simply residing within the Jenna & Associates period,” Bush Hager completely instructed Us Weekly at Kotb’s Pleasure 101 launch occasion in New York Metropolis on Could 28. “We booked — I can’t let you know who — however now we have wonderful individuals subsequent week, wonderful, and wonderful individuals the week after. After which, now we have our summer time booked, so we aren’t fairly there but.”