It’s been over 5 months since Hoda Kotb exited In the present day to focus extra on her household, and the morning discuss present appears to be doing fairly properly. Craig Melvin took over her spot as co-anchor on the primary hour, however Jenna Bush Hager nonetheless hasn’t discovered a everlasting alternative for the fourth hour, which has aired all through the 2025 TV schedule as simply In the present day with Jenna and Pals. Although it’s been going fairly properly for the previous First Daughter and her varied A+ visitor hosts, will anybody completely be part of her as co-host? Kotb herself has some fairly nice concepts.
In January, Bush Hager admitted she was in no rush to discover a everlasting alternative for Kotb, noting that it will be troublesome to duplicate the magic they shared collectively. Nonetheless, Kotb herself really threw out some concepts whereas showing on Watch What Occurs Reside, giving host Andy Cohen some A+ names:
I imply, anyone can be so fortunate, however to me, the contenders are Savannah [Guthrie], I believe she can be nice. I believe Justin Sylvester is wonderful. Scarlett Johansson crushed it.
Scarlett Johansson has been on film units for many of her life, so she could be too busy to spend most of her mornings on a chat present, despite the fact that she did certainly crush it throughout her week of visitor spots. It is not so outlandish to suppose she may share a TV residence at NBC along with her SNL hubby Colin Jost, even when it is not going.
Savannah Guthrie and Justin Sylvester wouldn’t be fully out of the query both, since each are already on In the present day, and presumably share fairly good chemistry with Bush Hager. Since Guthrie has been co-anchoring In the present day for a few years, it couldn’t harm for her to modify issues up.
These aren’t the one ones that Kotb has in thoughts, both. She additionally threw out a well-liked comic who’s one more In the present day pleasant face:
Matt Rogers is nice! And in addition our expensive good friend Sheinelle Jones.
Clearly, it’s all as much as Bush Hager as to who she needs as her everlasting co-host when she finally makes that call. However having been her co-host for over 5 years and understanding what it’s prefer to get a brand new co-host, it’s not shocking that Kotb needed to throw in her two cents. It’s not going to be simple for Bush Hager to interchange, however for now, it looks as if the visitor host rotation has been understanding fairly properly.
On the very least, Hoda Kotb briefly returned to In the present day to reunite along with her former co-hosts and promote her new well being and wellness initiative, Pleasure 101, and it was so nice to see her with Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin once more. She couldn’t cease by In the present day and never reunite with Jenna Bush Hager, and it was very nice to see them collectively once more. It made me miss them collectively, however a minimum of In the present day continues to be very a lot a part of Kotb.
It is unknown when Bush Hager will finally choose a everlasting co-host, however she nonetheless appears content material with having rotating visitor co-hosts, which isn’t so dangerous. There’s at all times the likelihood that Kotb will return to In the present day once more, albeit as a visitor, however Bush Hager, having the rotating visitor co-hosts, makes it much more potential.