Hoda Kotb, who has filled in on NBC’s “Today” show since Matt Lauer was fired in November, is now officially replacing him.
The promotion means that Kotb and Savannah Guthrie will co-host the famed morning show.
“This has to be the most popular decision NBC News has ever made,” Guthrie said while celebrating the news on Tuesday’s “Today.”
“I am pinching myself,” said a beaming Kotb. “I think we should send some medics to Alexandria, Virginia, where my mom has likely fainted after hearing the open of that show.”
Kotb was a news anchor in New Orleans before joining NBC News in 1998 as a correspondent for “Dateline.” In 2010, she released the book, “Hoda: How I Survived War Zones, Bad Hair, Cancer, and Kathie Lee,” and announced last year that she had adopted a baby girl. She also hosts “The Hoda Show on SiriusXM.”
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