Hoda Kotb is revealing the explanation behind her absence from At this time with Hoda & Jenna on Wednesday.
Regardless of showing on the primary two hours of At this time with Savannah Guthrie and Craig Melvin, Kotb, 59, missed out on the fourth hour of the morning present’s March 27 episode, when she usually co-hosts At this time with Hoda & Jenna with Jenna Bush Hager.
Upon her return on Thursday, Bush Hager, 42, expressed, “I miss you once you’re gone, are you aware that?”
“A great good friend of ours, who we each love dearly Laura — who does our hair — her mother handed,” Kotb defined. “And Laura’s one of many good eggs, she’s form of mothering to everyone.”
“She positive is. Very maternal. We love you, Laura,” Bush Hager agreed.
The Hope Is a Rainbow writer echoed the sentiment, including, “We love you and your loved ones.”
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Sunday At this time host Willie Geist stepped in for Kotb, co-hosting alongside Bush Hager on Wednesday’s episode of At this time with Hoda & Jenna. They didn’t handle Kotb’s absence through the broadcast.
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Kotb — who’s a mom to daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4 — was additionally absent from the At this time present final week to go on a spring break journey together with her youngsters and sister Hala. On Instagram, she shared a carousel of trip clips and images from their seashore vacation.
“Lovely days … magical nights ❤️❤️❤️,” she captioned the slideshow.
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It’s been a yr since Kotb final took prolonged day without work from the At this time present, leaving for 2 weeks in February 2023 to take care of her daughter Hope following a hospitalization.
Opening as much as PEOPLE earlier this month about Hope’s sickness, she described “a scary stretch” in her daughter’s situation.
“Any dad or mum who’s been by means of a scary factor with their little one understands. It’s such as you simply can’t consider that your little one’s sick. You may’t consider that there’s nothing you are able to do,” she mentioned. “You may’t consider that it doesn’t matter what you do, you’ll be able to’t will it away or shield her, or all of the issues that we’re purported to be doing as dad and mom. And it’s a place I’ve by no means discovered myself in.”
