Hoda Kotb obtained a heat welcome on the Tuesday, September 9, episode of At this time.
Kotb returned to the NBC morning present to spotlight NYC gymnasium instructor Reyes Andon, who gained the 2025 NYCPS Massive Apple Bodily Schooling Award for having his college students take a hands-on strategy throughout class. Kotb and her At this time colleagues additionally stunned Andon and his college students with a big examine and loads of sports activities provides reside on the 30 Rockefeller Middle plaza.
After the phase, Kotb joined her former cohosts inside At this time‘s Studio 1A. “The whole lot’s nice. My youngsters are in third grade and 1st grade. I now get up at 5:30 [a.m.],” she shared in an replace about her life post-At this time. “I really feel actually good. My little enterprise is doing its factor. I’ve obtained a brand new e book. It’s only a completely different life, but it surely’s humorous how simply yow will discover your self beginning one thing new.”
She added, “I imply, I miss you guys like loopy. I miss all people. Being right here made my coronary heart harm a bit of bit.”
Jenna Bush Hager went on to recommend, “Properly, you’ll be able to at all times come again.” Savannah Guthrie, for her half, identified, “Jenna’s nonetheless looking for buddies.” (Bush Hager has hosted the 4 hour of At this time, At this time With Jenna & Associates, with celeb visitor hosts since Kotb’s At this time exit in January.)
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Whereas Kotb didn’t share whether or not she is thinking about returning to At this time full-time, she did reward Bush Hager for main the present’s fourth hour. “It’s been going actually, rather well,” she mentioned, to which Bush Hager jokingly retorted, “You faux you’ve been watching.”
Kotb did admit that she hasn’t tuned in to Jenna & Associates repeatedly, as she’s been busy as a mom to her two daughters — Haley, 8, and Hope, 6 — and operating her new wellness model, Pleasure 101.
“They love faculty. We now have our new pet. So, our life has began this rhythm the place I stroll the women to high school, then I stroll to my workplace. I’ve an workplace in my city,” Kotb shared. “Constructing a enterprise is tough. I had no thought [about] all these things, but it surely’s been so enjoyable [and] difficult.”
Later within the morning, Kotb joined the At this time hosts out on the plaza once more. She gave Sheinelle Jones a hug and praised her power for returning to At this time after the demise of her husband, Uche Ojeh, earlier this 12 months.
“She’s altering lives simply by being precisely who she is. Three of my buddies known as instantly after you guys had been speaking and mentioned that they felt perpetually modified after listening to that dialog,” Kotb gushed, referring to Jones’ sit-down interview with Guthrie about her husband’s passing. “So, I used to be saying, ‘You don’t must make any effort. You simply be, and also you’re doing what you’re doing.’ So, anyway, I really like you.”
Kotb’s At this time return will proceed on Tuesday’s episode of Jenna & Associates, the place she’s going to be a part of Bush Hager and her visitor host, Nikki Glaser.
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