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A rundown of the big moments—Kathie Lee! Kermit! Oprah!—and puddles of tears on the beloved host’s last episode of “Today,” a reminder of what made her run on the show so special.
Kotb told Seth Meyers the three shocking words her “Today Show” co-host told her when she first broke the news.
She didn’t appear to want to talk about her plans for tying the knot with Jeff Bezos.
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The beloved morning host on the “Today” show was reportedly among the first to be asked to take a pay cut—something that her fellow morning anchors are also set to face.
“Next year’s going to be a bloodbath,” a news executive told the Daily Beast, referencing TV news anchors’ top-dollar salaries. “All these big moneymakers—they’re all gone.”
The co-hosts wept as the news broke that Kotb is stepping down from her anchor role.
“You have to be someone upholding our democracy. And that’s, to me, where the line is,” Guthrie told Colbert on Tuesday night.
“Don’t buy them,” Savannah Guthrie warned.
The NFL matriarch didn’t get a question from the “Today” show hosts about her son’s new romance with the pop superstar until the end of her interview—and seemed nonplussed.
Longtime “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb has been absent for more than a week, while her co-host had to bolt on Tuesday morning after getting COVID.
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