He’s on the rise.
Craig Melvin, 45, will probably be taking on for “Today” anchor Hoda Kotb when she steps down.
The transfer will give him an enormous wage bump, as Us Weekly experiences that he’ll make about $5 to $6 million in his new function. He allegedly makes $3 million per yr now.
Melvin turned an anchor on “Today” in Aug. 2018. 5 months later, he was named a everlasting co-host on the third hour of the present alongside Al Roker, Sheinelle Jones and Dylan Dreyer.
Kotb, 60, shared the information that Melvin can be her alternative on Thursday, Nov. 14, whereas additionally confirming her final day on the present will probably be Friday, January 10.
“I am beyond excited and grateful,” stated Melvin on the present. “I’ve enjoyed just a lifetime of blessings and this is the latest in a long line of blessings.”
Kotb informed Melvin that he was “literally made for this job.” She added, “You have all the things this job needs. You are the right person for it.”
Kotb introduced her exit from “Today” after 26 years in September.
She shared the information in particular person along with her co-anchors, together with Melvin and Jenna Bush Hager.
“I have spent 26 years at NBC. I just turned 60, and it was such a monumental moment for me, because I started thinking about that decade. I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60 and to try something new,” she stated on the time.
“I decided that this is the right time to move on,” Kotb shared, including that she needs to spend extra time along with her daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5.
“Obviously I had my kids late in life and they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have,” she went on. “With all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world.”
“Craig is so awesome, people were cheering when they got the staff email,” a supply informed Us Weekly.
“He’s the best – everybody is so excited for him.”
One other insider shared, “He is truly one of the nicest, most humble, generous people. People are overwhelmingly happy for him. The good guy won.”
“He has been steady Eddie for 7 years – alongside Savannah and Hoda,” the primary supply stated, referring to Savannah Guthrie.
“It was the right choice, the clear choice, the choice that everybody could get behind. He is so beloved.”
The supply added that Melvin and Guthrie are “good friends” who’ve “hung out together with their spouses …They’ve always had a tight brother-sister friendship. Savannah adores Craig.”
In an interview with E! Information final month, Kotb opened up about whom she’d like to exchange her on “Today.”
“The person who I want is someone who has beautiful chemistry with Jenna [Bush Hager],” she shared. “That’s all I want. Because it’s never about either anchor, it’s about what’s between. So bring the chemistry.”
The Publish reached out to “Today” for remark.
