Is Hoda Kotb Returning to the TODAY Show? Co-Host Says…

Published: May 5, 2025

Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie — PARIS, FRANCE - AUGUST 05: Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb attend "A Celebration of Olympic Basketball" presented by NBC Universal and NBA at Team USA House, Palais Brongniart on August 05, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Julien M. Hekimian/Getty Images for NBC Universal)

By Kayla DeKraker

Is Hoda Kotb coming back to TODAY? Her former co-anchor Savannah Guthrie says yes!

“She’s coming back! She’s going to come and reveal her next chapter on the TODAY Show. So, you’ll see her there,” Guthrie told E! News’ Carolina Bermudez in a recent interview.

Although it doesn’t seem that Kotb will return long-term, it appears that she will be on a future episode as a special guest.

Guthrie added that even though the former host is no longer on the show, she still keeps in touch with the team. “We see her all the time. She’s great. We just had breakfast last week,” Guthrie said.

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Kotb left TODAY earlier this year, an announcement she made last September. She had been a news anchor for TODAY and NBC News for 26 years.

“I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60, and to try something new,” she previously said. “Obviously I had my kiddos late in life, and I was thinking that they deserve a bigger piece of my time pie that I have. I feel like we only have a finite amount of time.”

Kotb has two daughters whom she adopted: Haley Joy, 7, and Hope Catherine, 4.

“My broadcast career has been beyond meaningful, a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie. I will miss you all desperately, but I’m ready and excited,” she shared when she announced her exit.

In an interview on THE KELLY CLARKSON SHOW, Kotb announced that, in addition to her family, she’s turning her attention to a new endeavor: her growing passion for the holistic wellness space.

“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,” she explained. “And then all of a sudden, as I was doing it, I was like, wait, I feel calmer. I feel better. We will make it makes you feel good, yeah. So I am starting a wellness app and company that will involve retreats and a podcast and all kinds of things that we can get together, do things that I love.”