Hoda Kotb Reunites With Jenna Bush Hager, Savannah Guthrie After Leaving Today

Hoda Kotb may have left the Today show, but she proves that her friendship with her former co-hosts is here to stay.

Kotb, 60, shared a picture via Instagram with Jenna Bush Hager43, s Savannah Guthrie53, on Wednesday, January 22. The trio can be seen smiling in a restaurant in the image.

“I love Wednesdays!! @savannahguthrie @jennabhager. Also remember when you had that goodbye party and now I’m like…… HIIIIIIIIIIII!” Kotb wrote in the caption.

Bush Hager reposted the image to Instagram Stories, writing: “Love these babies.”

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Guthrie also shared the image via Instagram Stories. He captioned it: “Reunion.”

The outing comes less than two weeks after Kotb’s final episode on the NBC morning show on January 10.

Following the departure of the star, Today With Hoda and Jenna relaunch as Today With Jenna and Her Friends. Bush Hager will host with a rotating selection of celebrity guests until Kotb’s replacement is chosen.

“Whoever sits in this seat is going to have the easiest job in the world ’cause they’re sitting next to you,” Kotb said in a September 2024 episode. Hoda and Jenna after announcing her plans to leave the show.

“I mean, the only thing they have to do is not laugh so hard they pee their pants. That’s it. They have to keep going. You are this bright light, you always have been, and it’s your turn,” she added.

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Bush Hager responded: “If I’m glowing, it’s because I’m sitting in your glow.”

As for Kotb, the TV personality won’t be completely retiring from news. In an interview with Page Six announced on January 9, Kotb revealed that he will serve as a special correspondent for Today and NBC and has signed a deal to cover the next two Olympics.

Kotb also shared plans to start a wellness app and company during an appearance on The Kelly Clarkson Show on January 6.

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“(It will) include retreats and a podcast and all kinds of things we can get together (and do) … It’s not like going to Mexico with your girls, which is fun, but something when you’ n leave, you go like, ‘Oh, my gosh, I feel transformed. I feel different,” Kotba said at the time.

“She’s going to earn a lot more than she did on the Today show,” a source exclusively shared in the latest edition of Us Weekly.

“Now that she’s not full time at NBC, Hoda is going to be working with brands and can be paid to endorse them. She could also make hundreds of thousands of dollars for speaking engagements on topics like, ‘changing your life at 60,’” the source added.