COURIC KATIE has been keeping contacts with celebrate After her appearance from today’s show.
“I’ve sent her a few times and told her I hope she was sleeping,” Couric, 68, told her exclusively The weekly On Thursday, March 6. Couric left today In 2006 after 15 years in show for anchor CBS evening newsbecoming the first solo woman in history to anchor a night news broadcast.
“Someone was asking me earlier today about leaving today Show, ”Couric said weadding that “change and new challenges keep life interesting and exciting.”
She shared, “If you do something too long, she starts to feel stagnant no matter how exciting the job might be. So I was excited about Hoda – after I anchor today Show for 15 years – go and try new things and challenge yourself and, you know, be in different places. I’m really excited about it. ”
Kotb, 60, announced her departure from today In September 2024 after nearly 30 years with NBC.
“I just became 60 years old, and it was such a monumental moment for me when I came back 60 because I started thinking about that decade, how, what does that decade mean? What would it be for me?” The host announced with tears at the time. “And I realized it was time for me to turn the page at 60 and try something new.”
She quoted to spend more time with her daughters, Haley and Hope, whom she shares with the ex-fiancée Joel Schiffmanas a major reason for her decision to leave the program.
“I had my Kiddo late in life and I was thinking they deserve much of my time, the pie I have,” she explained. “I feel like we only have a limited time. And so, with all that is said, this is the hardest thing in the world. “
Hoda Kotb has no regrets for her latest appearance of today’s show. “I don’t have any Fomo, who is so funny because I knew 100 (percent). I don’t have his own ounce,” Kotb, 60 years old, said exclusively to Runway for Recovery’s inaugural City Fashion Show in Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers, Thursday, February (…)
An internal of NBC said exclusively we At the time Kotb’s exit was a “big blow” to the series. “She’s the person everyone loves,” said suicide we. “She’s the same outside the camera as it’s on the camera, and I think that’s the hardest thing because that can’t be said for everyone.”
Couric also accepted to we that while she still watches “some” from today Show, it doesn’t consume almost as much from the morning show as it once was.
“Honestly, I’m usually up and out in the morning. And to be honest with you, like many people, I get a lot of my content digitally, ”she explained we. “So, I do it, but not constantly, not as it used to, and not as I did when I was really in it.”
With reporting from Mandi Decamp
