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Hoda Kotb is formally on the following leg of her journey. The beloved NBC persona, 60, had her final day on TODAY and Right now With Hoda & Jenna on Friday, January 10, 2025. Previous to leaving the present, Kotb hinted at wanting extra time in her private life — notably together with her two daughters, Hope and Haley Pleasure. Following her 60 birthday, she mentioned throughout an interview on the present, she “sort of knew that it was time to attempt one thing completely different, and which means, you understand, having my youngsters experience sidecar subsequent to me extra typically than they’ve been.”
She can be changed in her TODAY duties by NBC journalist Craig Melvin. A rotating panel of substitutes will sit in for her on Hoda & Jenna till a everlasting substitute is chosen. Amid the information that she’s transferring on, does she have a present accomplice? Who was Kotb concerned with beforehand? We’ve acquired the lowdown on her romantic historical past and relationships under.
Joel Schiffman
Hoda was in a long-term relationship with fiancé Joel Schiffman till they parted methods in early 2022. In line with PEOPLE, Schiffman works in finance, and the previous couple met in 2013 at a Wall Avenue occasion she wasn’t notably enthused about attending. “I requested somebody from the place — I requested, ‘Will you discover out his scenario?’ ” she confessed throughout a 2015 episode of Watch What Occurs Stay. “As a result of I didn’t know something about him. I knew he didn’t have a marriage ring, however that’s all I knew. Then she emailed him and he emailed me and requested me out on a date.”
They stored their relationship away from the general public eye till 2015 to be able to defend it. Hoda and Joel adopted two daughters, Haley in 2017, and Hope in 2019. In November 2019, Schiffman proposed throughout a beachside dinner, with a deliberate wedding ceremony for a 12 months later. Nonetheless, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, placing a pin of their plans. In 2022, they introduced their separation. The duo continues to peacefully co-parent their youngsters and in accordance with Kotb, they continue to be mates. “Joel is without doubt one of the finest individuals I do know,” she declared throughout an August 2024 episode of the Jamie Kern Lima Present. “He actually is a good human being. And I really feel like I’m a terrific human being. However generally two nice human beings collectively isn’t sufficient to make it work.”.
Burzis Kanga
In line with Residing New Orleans, Kotb married College of New Orleans tennis coach Burzis Kanga in 2005. “I met him a few 12 months and a half after I got here to New Orleans at a fund-raiser for the American Coronary heart Affiliation’s Valentine’s Day and we have been each single,” she instructed the outlet throughout a 2006 interview. “And naturally, I had moved as much as New York, however later we ended up connecting once more.” She instructed the outlet on the time that married life had been “nice.” “We love simply sort of knocking round New York, performing some Broadway performs, going out to eat,” she mentioned.
Nonetheless, it wasn’t meant to be, and the previous couple divorced three years later in 2008.