Hoda Kotb is likely to be leaving the “Today” present, however that doesn’t imply her profession is within the rearview mirror.
Throughout an look on the “Kelly Clarkson Show” Monday, the journalist was probed on her future profession plans after she says goodbye to the beloved morning present later this week.
“I have to say though, ma’am, as soon as they told me you were not doing The Today Show, I was like, ‘So what’s that b–h doing?’ ” Clarkson, 42, quipped. “I was like, ‘Because there’s no way you’re not doing anything.’ You’re me, you like problems, you like working.”
“I like things, I do,” Kotb, 60, mentioned. “So, I kind of got hooked in the wellness space, like a couple of years ago. I started doing stuff that I thought seemed woo woo and weird, and then all of a sudden as I was doing it, I was like, ‘Wait, I feel calmer, I feel better.’”
“Woo woo makes you feel good,” Clarkson added.
Kotb revealed that she’s kickstarting her personal wellness app and firm, which can even embody journeys and podcasts.
“We can get together, do things that I love, and when you’re done, it’s not like going to Mexico with your girls, which is fun, but this is something that when you leave, you’ll go like, ‘Oh my gosh. I feel transformed. I feel different,’” she mentioned. “So I’m in the building process of that.”
“That’s so healthy to be the voice for that and build a community for that, because I need — a lot of us need — to be better at that,” Clarkson mentioned.
“I’m like, ‘Go, go, go, go.’ A lot of us are. We exhaust ourselves and we’re not good at knowing how to be still or slow down.”
Kotb mentioned the challenge is ready to launch this spring.
“Don’t tell me about it, invite me,” Clarkson quipped.
Kotb’s closing day on the present will probably be on Friday, Jan. 10. It would mark the top of an period as she’s been with NBC for 26 years.
In Nov. 2024, it was introduced that Craig Melvin will change Kotb and co-anchor the primary two hours of “Today” alongside Guthrie.
Kotb can also be the co-host of the ten a.m. present “Today with Hoda and Jenna” alongside Jenna Bush Hager, who will probably be joined by rotating visitor co-hosts following Kotb’s exit till her everlasting co-host is introduced.
In October, Kotb admitted on her present with Bush Hager, 43, that her choice to go away “Today” is “terrifying.”
“When those twinges come up, like, ‘Should you do it? Is it a mistake?’ … I remind myself that there’s still part of me that’s living right here,” she mentioned.
“And that’s normal. Like, let it be. So yeah, it’s scary. Yeah, it’s terrifying — it’s all those things … but it’s also exactly right.”
