Hoda Kotb is likely to be leaving the “Right this moment” present, however that doesn’t imply her profession is within the rearview mirror.
Throughout an look on the “Kelly Clarkson Present” Monday, the journalist was probed on her future profession plans after she says goodbye to the beloved morning present later this week.
“I’ve to say although, ma’am, as quickly as they instructed me you weren’t doing The Right this moment Present, I used to be like, ‘So what’s that b–h doing?’ ” Clarkson, 42, quipped. “I used to be like, ‘As a result of there’s no method you’re not doing something.’ You’re me, you want issues, you want working.”
“I like issues, I do,” Kotb, 60, mentioned. “So, I form of received hooked within the wellness house, like a few years in the past. I began doing stuff that I believed appeared woo woo and bizarre, after which rapidly as I used to be doing it, I used to be like, ‘Wait, I really feel calmer, I really feel higher.’”
“Woo woo makes you are feeling good,” Clarkson added.
Kotb revealed that she’s kickstarting her personal wellness app and firm, which can even embrace journeys and podcasts.
“We will get collectively, do issues that I like, and while you’re finished, it’s not like going to Mexico together with your ladies, which is enjoyable, however that is one thing that while you depart, you’ll go like, ‘Oh my gosh. I really feel reworked. I really feel totally different,’” she mentioned. “So I’m within the constructing means of that.”
“That’s so wholesome to be the voice for that and construct a neighborhood for that, as a result of I want — quite a lot of us want — to be higher at that,” Clarkson mentioned.
“I’m like, ‘Go, go, go, go.’ Quite a lot of us are. We exhaust ourselves and we’re not good at figuring out tips on how to be nonetheless or decelerate.”
Kotb mentioned the mission is about to launch this spring.
“Don’t inform me about it, invite me,” Clarkson quipped.
Kotb’s remaining day on the present might be on Friday, Jan. 10. It’s going to 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 exchange Kotb and co-anchor the primary two hours of “Right this moment” alongside Guthrie.
Kotb can also be the co-host of the ten a.m. present “Right this moment with Hoda and Jenna” alongside Jenna Bush Hager, who might 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 resolution to go away “Right this moment” is “terrifying.”
“When these twinges come up, like, ‘Must you do it? Is it a mistake?’ … I remind myself that there’s nonetheless a part of me that’s dwelling proper right here,” she mentioned.
“And that’s regular. Like, let it’s. So yeah, it’s scary. Yeah, it’s terrifying — it’s all these issues … nevertheless it’s additionally precisely proper.”