Hoda Kotb 's "dream" came true at the 2024 Paris Olympics . Although the Olympics opening ceremony happened on Friday, the spectacle that left Kotb, 59, awestruck was meeting Tom Cruise , 62. Kotb took to Instagram to share an iconic selfie she snapped with Cruise in Paris' pouring rain.
"Do you know when you dream of meeting Tom Cruise...
And then it finally happens," she captioned a very damp-looking photo of the two. In the photo, Kotb beams with excitement standing next to Cruise. She wears a poncho that exposes only a circle of her smiling face while the actor with wet hair wears all black.
"In your dream were you wearing a poncho?" Jenna Bush Hager joked in the comments. "Icons only," Savannah Guthrie wrote. Cruise and Kotb just casually bumped into each other on a bridge over the Seine, Today crews on the scene told the outlet.
Céline Dion wowed at the opening ceremony . It marked her first performance since halting her worldwide tour and stepping back from public life after revealing her diagnosis with Stiff Person Syndrome in December 2022. She performed Edith Piaf's famous work, "Hymne à L'Amour" (the Hymn to Love) with the help of a full orchestra.
The French ballad was written to the love of Piaf’s life, boxer Marcel Cerdan, who died in a plane crash barely a month after it was first performed. Last month, Kotb sat down with the 56-year-old global superstar to discuss her health battle with Stiff Person Syndrome and her future as she navigates her medical st.