Right here in the present day, gone tomorrow.
Throughout a current look on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Savannah Guthrie, 54, joked that she threw away Hoda Kotb’s “s–t” after the latter left the “Today” present final week.
Guthrie recalled discovering assorted odds and ends that her former co-anchor left behind.
“It’s a new era. It’s the Craig era,” Guthrie mentioned, referring to how Craig Melvin is changing Kotb.
“We go in and we sit on the set and there are these trays,” Guthrie joked, explaining that within the trays for his or her private gadgets, Kotb had left “like, one contact and, like, expired bean dip and, like, belly button lint. So we just threw it right out!”
Fallon performed a video Guthrie recorded for Kotb, 60, as she tossed out the gadgets.
Within the footage, Guthrie will be seeing quipping, “Guess you didn’t want any of this s–t,” earlier than trashing the products.
“Look at the tray … it had rust and barnacles on it. I mean, it was disgusting!” Guthrie advised Fallon.
Kotb introduced she could be leaving “Today” again in September after 26 years with NBC.
Guthrie and Kotb anchored “Today” collectively since 2017, after Matt Lauer obtained fired over sexual harassment allegations.
On the time, Kotb defined that her resolution to depart occurred after turning 60, as she needed to spend extra time along with her daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5.
She’ll additionally kick-start her personal wellness app and firm, which is able to embody journeys and podcasts, and has signed a brand new cope with NBC to contribute unique interviews and canopy the subsequent two Olympics.
“I just turned 60, and it was such a monumental moment for me, because I started thinking about that decade,” she mentioned on “Today” in September.
“I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60 and to try something new.”
When Kotb introduced her exit, Guthrie took it the toughest.
“No one is taking the news worse than Savannah Guthrie,” Melvin mentioned on air in September.
She formally bid farewell to her “Today” co-hosts on Jan. 10.
“Can I just say thank you? I haven’t been able to articulate it, because I’m a mess most times, but I just want to say thanks,” Kotb mentioned via tears on her remaining episode.
“Hoda, I love you. I love you deeply,” Guthrie mentioned. “Like I always tell you: Whether you sit next to me or not, whether we get up at 4 a.m. or not. I will always be by your side and you will always be by mine.”
Al Roker added, “She’s probably one of the most selfless people I know. I was gravely ill. I never had any idea how sick I was. I was in the hospital and Hoda was there if not every day then almost every day. It got the point where I think people actually thought she was a doctor.”
In the course of the broadcast, viewers had been additionally seen holding up indicators outdoors wishing Kotb good luck and noting they’d miss her.
Melvin even recommended that the window behind the “Today” desk ought to be named the “Hoda Window.”