Hoda Kotb leaves Today studio unexpectedly as co-hosts respond to sudden exit

Fans might need been confused as Hoda Kotb left the Today present early, which her co-hosts addressed simply as they received onto the PopStart section.

“Hoda had to leave a couple minutes early”, Willie Geist introduced, leaving Carson Daly to lead the section.

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Carson discovered a means to lighten the state of affairs in Hoda’s absence, asking jokily: “Was it something I did?” Referencing the teasing banter the 2 co-hosts typically share, notably throughout Hoda’s Morning Boost.

His co-hosts all chimed in affirmatively, joking that Carson was probably the rationale Hoda left early, which led him to remark “smart woman”, earlier than transferring on to host the section.

While it’s apparent that Hoda’s absence had nothing to do along with her co-host Carson, the duo are sometimes teasingly at odds throughout her Morning Boost part. Carson’s typically cynical response to the each day section, which highlights excellent news and heartwarming tales, has received him in hassle.

Hoda and co-host Savannah Guthrie as soon as threw their scripts at Carson, with the latter telling him to “get out”. Carson had responded to a candy video of some children refilling their neighbor’s empty trick or deal with basket with their sweet by suggesting teasingly that “it looked a little staged.”

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Another time Savannah even referred to as for Carson to be “banned” as he made a sardonic remark in response to a video of a groom, who was overcome with emotion on his wedding ceremony day, bursting into tears through the ceremony.

Carson had mentioned: “I hope those are happy tears,” which led to Al Roker bursting out laughing. When instructed in any other case, he retorted: “I just say what you’re thinking, that’s what I do. His life is going to be different!”

Hoda made it clear that “we were not thinking that, you were thinking that!” whereas Savannah referred to as him a “morning bummer”.

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But it’s their charming dynamic which makes the Today present value watching.

Hoda, a mother to two children, Hope, 4, and Haley, 6, has a busy life exterior of her function on the present which might simply as simply have meant she had to go away somewhat sooner than traditional.

The journalist co-parents Hope and Haley with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman, who followers had been comfortable to see nonetheless performs a significant function within the household as all of them dressed up for Halloween. 

In early 2022 the couple introduced they had been calling it quits on their relationship after eight years collectively, but they remained shut as co-parents.