After Hoda Kotb spent her final morning on Today last Friday, the beloved host will no longer show up on the 2025 TV schedule as a main co-anchor for the first time since she started in 2018. It has to feel especially odd for her longtime co-host Savannah Guthrie,

Melvin began his new role by telling audiences how grateful and excited he was to sit in the host seat. Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. "You've sat there so many times but this morning is special.

ROGER WONG/INSTARimages.com Today meteorologist Dylan Dreyer was surprised to find out that colleague Hoda Kotb planned to leave the acclaimed morning show. "I was in Nashville 'cause I had just covered the People's Choice Country Music Awards [in September 2024].

Melvin explained that Kotb knocked on the door of his dressing room one morning, “which was unusual,” and asked him to speak for a moment. “She came in, and she said, ‘I j

Hoda Kotb wrote a letter for her successor and new TODAY show co-anchor, Craig Melvin. She hid the letter in a "secret" place only Savannah Guthrie knew about.

Though Hoda Kotb has officially left Today, her presence is still heavily felt around the show’s set! The longtime TV host wrote a letter to Craig Melvin, who replaced her in the coanchor seat on the program on Monday.

Craig Melvin was so shocked by news of Hoda Kotb's Today show exit that he thought the decision to leave wasn't hers. "My dressing room is two over from hers, and she knocks on my door one morning, which was unusual.

Hoda Kotb celebrated her fresh start after leaving the 'Today' show and gave a shout-out to Craig Melvin as he takes over as coanchor

Craig Melvin was named as Hoda Kotb’s replacement as a coanchor on ‘Today’ after she announced her departure from the show

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Craig Melvin's debut as co-anchor of Today proved to be an emotional one. On Monday, January 13, the 45-year-old broadcast journalist — who began his first day in his new gig — received a video message and a handwritten letter from his predecessor, Hoda Kotb, whose last day was Friday, January 10.