Hoda Kotb has had an incredibly successful career at NBC , allowing her to interview many A-listers over the years. The broadcast journalist originally started as a correspondent for Dateline in 1998. In 2007, she began hosting the fourth hour of Today , known as Today with Hoda & Jenna.
Then, in 2018, Kotb became co-anchor of Today along with Savannah Gutherie. The beloved host announced in September that she would be exiting Today in 2025. Kotb, who shares adopted daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, with ex-fiance Joel Schiffman, cited wanting more time with her family as one of the reasons behind her exit.
"Obviously, I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have," she told viewers. "I feel like we only have a finite amount of time." In October, Kotb traded being an interviewer to being an interviewee on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon , where she revealed the decision to depart Today came to her on her 60th birthday.
"When I turned 60, something weird happened, man," she said. "I turned 60, and we had this beautiful party at the Today show, and I looked out at the sea of all the people who came and beautiful signs and so many well-wishes and I knew in my heart, like, 'This is it, man. This is what the mountaintop must feel like.
' Like, I'd never had that feeling before." While Kotb will no longer be on America's TV screens every morning, it's fair to say she has left a legacy of incredible interviews to lo.
