In Might, Hoda Kotb vehemently denied rumors that she’d be changing Kelly Clarkson on her eponymous speak present if the singer leaves as soon as her contract ends in 2026. However has she already modified her thoughts?
The previous Right now co-host appeared on Watch What Occurs Reside with Andy Cohen on Thursday (June 5), the place an viewers member requested in regards to the hypothesis of her taking on Clarkson’s daytime speak present spot sooner or later.
“I really feel like Kelly is in a category all by herself,” replied Kotb, who appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Present as a visitor on Monday (June 2) to debate her newly launched, self-titled wellness model. “My entire factor with speak reveals and all that stuff is that I’m a never-say-never individual. You don’t know what life is gonna convey you.”
She continued, “At this second, I’m having a lot enjoyable with the trip that I’m on, however, you understand, TV is my old flame, so, as I say in life, you don’t know.”
This was very totally different from her reply to the identical query from when she returned as a visitor on the Right now present Wednesday, Might 28. When her former co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin requested in regards to the rumors, Kotb mentioned, “Delete. Delete. That’s not true.”
She went on to state that if she had been to return to TV as a number, it could be again on the Right now couch. “I wish to ask you all an actual query,” Kotb advised her former co-hosts. “Do you suppose that if I ever got here again to TV… have you learnt the one place I might ever come again is? Proper right here, that is the spot. There’s no place like residence.”
The hypothesis comes after Web page Six reported in April that Clarkson was contemplating leaving her NBC daytime speak present, which is filmed in New York Metropolis, after her contract expires subsequent yr.
In the meantime, Cohen requested Kotb who she’d wish to see be part of Jenna Bush Hager as her new everlasting co-host of Right now‘s fourth hour. Kotb prompt Guthrie, Justin Sylvester, Matt Rogers, and Scarlett Johansson, whom she mentioned “crushed it” throughout her guest-host stint.