Last week, Hoda Kotb announced that she was leaving the Today show, and I bet there is something she is not going to miss: trying weird-tasting things.
Today, she and Jenna Bush tried Dua Lipa’s Diet Coke mix, which includes pickle and jalapeno juice.
It sounds pretty gross, right? I am saying that, and I love pickles and pickled jalapenos. So, what did the co-hosts think of it? Hoda’s face said it all. She was completely grossed out. While Jenna suprisingly liked it.
Does that make you want to try it or not? Since I can’t stand diet soda, I will let you tell me how it is. You can be the sacrificial lamb.
Hoda Kotb had a massive announcement to make this morning on Today. After 16 years of being part of the family and 7 sitting on the couch next to Al Roker and Savannah Guthrie, she will be departing the morning news shows in the new year.
And family is a big reason why she is saying goodbye. She wants to spend more time with her daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, whom she had later in life.
The host explained when and why she decided it was time to move on.”I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at 60 and to try something new,” she said. “I remembered standing outside looking at these beautiful bunch of people [at the birthday party they threw for her live on the air in August] with these gorgeous signs, and I thought, ‘This is what the top of the wave feels like for me.’ And I thought it can’t get better, and I decided that this is the right time for me to kind of move on.”
After she told the audience she was departing, her co-anchors, including Craig Melvin, Jenna Bush, and Sheinelle Jones, cried along with her.
I just have to say, has anyone had a job where they cried with their co-worker when they announced that they resigned? I haven’t.
I have a feeling we are going to see lots of tributes and tears until the final episode. It will be nauseating.
Are you going to miss her? I think she will wind up doing a podcast with Kathie Lee Gifford.
The Today show went to the Olympics in Paris, France, and now they are back in New York City. Even though they are home, they can’t stop talking about it.
Case in point. Yesterday, Jenna Bush couldn’t wait to talk to Hoda Kotb about the moment when she met Tom Crise.
It was pouring, so Kotb wore a poncho to protect her hair, makeup, and clothes from the elements in case she had to go live on the air. So, she had the plastic white raincoat cover everything but her eyes, nose, and mouth.
Since it was see-thru white, the anchor looked something. That something, according to the former President’s daughter, is a condom. And I think she is right. Do you see it too?
Today on Today with Hoda and Jenna, Daryn Carp shared What’s Popping with Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush, and they wish she didn’t.
That is because the Bravo star made them try something that tastes like her last name. What was it? It was the trendy sea moss.
What did the ladies think of it? Their faces said it all. In fact, Kotb said it tasted “horrible.” And Bush declared, “It tastes like when you get hit by a wave.”
With reviews like that, I think I will skip it! Because there is nothing they said that made me be like I have to try not. No matter how healthy it is.
