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Hoda Kotb is officially on the next leg of her journey. The beloved NBC personality, 60, had her last day on TODAY and Today With Hoda & Jenna on Friday, January 10, 2025. Prior to leaving the show, Kotb hinted at wanting more time in her personal life ” particularly with her two daughters, Hope and Haley Joy. Following her 60 birthday, she said during an interview on the show, she kind of knew that it was time to try something different, and that means, you know, having my kids ride sidecar next to me more often than they have been.
She will be replaced in her TODAY duties by NBC journalist Craig Melvin. A rotating panel of substitutes will sit in for her on Hoda & Jenna until a permanent replacement is chosen. Amid the news that shes moving on, does she have a current partner? Who was Kotb involved with previously? Weve got the lowdown on her romantic history and relationships below.
Hoda was in a long-term relationship with fiancé Joel Schiffman until they parted ways in early 2022. According to PEOPLE, Schiffman works in finance, and the former couple met in 2013 at a Wall Street event she wasnt particularly enthused about attending. I asked someone from the place ” I asked, Will you find out his situation? she confessed during a 2015 episode of Watch What Happens Live. Because I didnt know anything about him. I knew he didnt have a wedding ring, but thats all I knew. Then she emailed him and he emailed me and asked me out on a date.
According to Living New Orleans, Kotb married University of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in 2005. I met him about a year and a half after I came to New Orleans at a fund-raiser for the American Heart Associations Valentines Day and we were both single, she told the outlet during a 2006 interview. And of course, I had moved up to New York, but later we ended up connecting again. She told the outlet at the time that married life had been great. We love just kind of knocking around New York, doing some Broadway plays, going out to eat, she said.
However, it wasnt meant to be, and the former couple divorced three years later in 2008.
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