Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb. Shutterstock(2)
Exhibiting her assist. Jenna Bush Hager gave a candy shout-out to her At present coanchor Hoda Kotb amid the journalist’s continued absence from the morning present.
“Willie [Geist] is in for Hoda,” the Texas native, 41, defined in the course of the Wednesday, March 1, episode of the collection. “And we simply need to allow you to all know that we heard you, and Hoda is OK. She’s simply acquired a household well being matter that she’s been coping with.”
The Sisters First coauthor added that she and her At present colleagues are hopeful that Kotb, 58, will return to the air within the close to future. “We love her, we’re sending our like to her, and she or he’s going to be again, proper right here, very, very quickly,” the College of Texas at Austin graduate assured viewers.
Geist, 47, added: “Can’t wait to see her again right here. We love you very a lot, Hoda.”
Bush Hager and Kotb attend the seventieth Anniversary of NBC’s ‘At present,’ Could 2022. Efren Landaos/SOPA Photographs/Shutterstock
The youngsters’s guide writer hasn’t been featured on At present since February 20 when she appeared in a pre-taped episode of At present with Hoda and Jenna for Presidents’ Day. Through the Monday, February 27, installment of the present, Savannah Guthrie informed viewers that Kotb was “off immediately.”
Two days later, Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones crammed in as each Kotb and Guthrie, 51, have been lacking from the anchor desk.
“We talked about that Savannah and Hoda are each off. Savannah, she’s residence after a constructive COVID take a look at yesterday. We’re wishing our good friend a dashing restoration,” Melvin, 43, defined. “And as for Hoda, we all know a whole lot of you could have been questioning how she’s doing. We are able to inform you that Hoda’s OK. She’s acquired a household well being matter that she’s been coping with, so we stay up for seeing Hoda and Savannah again on the desk actual, actual quickly.”
Al Roker, the At present present weatherman, added, “We love you each.”
Kotb, for her half, hasn’t publicly commented on the scenario, however followers have taken word of a number of cryptic social media messages she’s shared in latest days. On Monday, the Oklahoma native shared a picture of the quote “Select Hope” by way of Instagram accompanied by two crimson coronary heart emojis.
Two days earlier, she posted a black-and-white picture of a quote studying, “Typically miracles are simply good folks with sort hearts.” In her caption, she added, “Completely satisfied sunday xo.”
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In one other message shared on February 24, Kotb paid tribute to the “robust girls” in her life. “Right here’s to robust girls,” learn a text-only message posted by way of Instagram. “Could we all know them. Could we be them. Could we elevate them.”
