Hoda Kotb announces she’s leaving ‘Today’ after 26 years with NBC

⁣“Today” show favorite Hoda Kotb announced Thursday that she’s leaving the morning program after 26 years with NBC.


Just weeks after celebrating her 60th birthday, the beloved TV personality broke down in tears as she revealed live on-air that she will be leaving “Today” in the New Year.


“I do have some news. So I was doing the math and I realized that I have spent 26 years at NBC,” an emotional Kotb began. “I just turned 60 and it was such a monumental moment for me when I turned 60 years old because I started thinking about that decade. Like, ‘What does that decade mean? What does it hold? What it’s gonna have for me?’”