Hoda Kotb

TODAY show co-anchor Hoda Kotb returned to the broadcast after being away from the show due to a family health matter concerning daughter Hope.

So Savannah, we love you.” And I felt like we were held.” And I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day. "And, also, anyone who’s ever gone through an illness with a child, boy, I thought I understood you, but I didn’t, until you’re sitting in that position.” “I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses. “You know what I realized, too, Savannah?

Hoda Kotb returned to co-anchoring NBC's "Today" show following a two-week absence, explaining to viewers that her daughter had a health issue.

I am just so happy.” I love you.” “I was waiting for that day to come, and we are watching her closely.

Hoda Kotb revealed the mysterious "family health matter" that has led to her extended absence from the "Today" show and "Today with Hoda & Jenna."

“He’ll take the girls and do some fun things, and I’ll take some quiet time.” The mom of two raved to People about having [created a “healthy mix” with the “great dad” ](https://pagesix.com/2022/08/16/hoda-kotb-reveals-how-she-co-parents-with-ex-joel-schiffman/)last August. “He’ll have a Saturday, and I’ll do the Sunday. “We can tell you that Hoda is OK, [but] she’s got a family health matter that she’s been dealing with.” “I’m grateful to my family and to friends like you who were there every single day.” The veteran broadcast journalist last appeared on a live broadcast on Feb.

The coanchor had been absent from NBC's morning show since mid-February due to “a family health matter”: “I'm so grateful she's home.”

And I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day.” “I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell, who were amazing, and the nurses. “She’s got a family health matter that she’s been dealing with.” “As for Hoda—we know a lot of you have been wondering how she is doing. I was waiting for that day to come.” Hoda Kotb has returned to Today.

Hoda Kotb returns to the Today show after a weeks-long absence, explaining youngest daughter Hope, 3, was in the ICU and hospitalized.

Over the last few weeks, Kotb told her friend and co-host, she felt thankful for the support. “My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days, and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” she said at the top of the hour of her 3-year-old. “I am so grateful, she’s home. She’s back home. “When your child is ill, the amount of gratitude you have for people who helped you out,” she said, naming the doctors at Weill Cornell hospital in NYC, and her family and friends like Guthrie, whom she said was there for her every day. [Craig Melvin told the Today audience](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/today-hoda-kotb-absent-today-with-hoda-jenna-1235338650/) that Kotb had been absent from the show due to a “family health matter.” I was waiting for that day to come. Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day In addition to Hope, Kotb is mom to daughter Haley Joy, 6. [Share this article on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&title=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization&sdk=joey&display=popup&ref=plugin&src=share_button&app_id=1153511048447777) [Share this article on Twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&text=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20%E2%80%98Today%E2%80%99%20After%20Daughter%E2%80%99s%20Hospitalization&via=thr) [Share this article on Email](mailto:?subject=thr%20:%20Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization&body=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/%20-%20Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization) [Show additional share options](#) [Share this article on Print]() [Share this article on Comment](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/#respond) [Share this article on Whatsapp](whatsapp://send?text=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization%20-%20https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/) [Share this article on Linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=1&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&title=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization&summary&source=thr) [Share this article on Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/submit?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&title=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization) [Share this article on Pinit](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/link/?url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&description=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization) [Share this article on Tumblr](https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl&url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/hoda-kotb-today-return-daughter-hospitalized-1235341758/&posttype=link&title=Hoda%20Kotb%20Returns%20to%20‘Today’%20After%20Daughter’s%20Hospitalization) [Hoda Kotb](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/hoda-kotb/) returned to her [Today](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/t/today/) show post after taking a few weeks off to care for her younger daughter. And we are watching her closely.” On Monday’s show, Kotb took her seat next to co-anchor Savannah Guthrie to explain her absence.

Hoda Kotb told "Today with Hoda & Jenna" viewers how her "vibrant" and "beautiful" daughter Hope is doing after the 3-year-old's hospitalization.

One for me and one for you,'” she recalled. [would be “just fine.”](https://pagesix.com/2023/03/03/al-roker-says-hoda-kotb-is-going-to-be-just-fine/) [“family health matter.”](https://pagesix.com/2023/03/01/hoda-kotbs-today-show-absence-caused-by-family-health-matter/)

Hoda Kotb is "so happy" to have her daughter home from the ICU. The 58-year-old star - who has adoptive daughters Haley Joy, six, and three-year-old Hope ...

Today” show co-anchor Hoda Kotb returned to her post on Monday, explaining her prolonged absence due to her daughter being admitted to a hospital.

[returned to the morning show](https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/3796231-al-roker-returning-to-today-after-multiple-hospitalizations/) earlier this year after a health scare in which blood clot complications had him hospitalized multiple times late last year. “I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell, who were amazing, and the nurses. [See all Hill.TV](https://thehill.com/hilltv) [See all Video](https://thehill.com/video) [Healthcare](https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/) [International](https://thehill.com/policy/international/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [Campaign](https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/) [See All](https://thehill.com) And I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day,” the 58-year-old anchor said, specifically mentioning Guthrie’s support. “I’m so grateful she’s home. I’m just so happy.”

After Today co-host Hoda Kotb recently shared her 3-year-old daughter was hospitalized for a health matter, the mom of two penned a heartfelt message to ...

[For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! "I'm grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell, who were amazing," she added. For every single person who's going through some stuff, I get it." "But I didn't until you're sitting in that position. "I'm so grateful she's home," she said. In a touching message penned the following day, Hoda thanked everyone for the outpouring of well wishes.

It's the heart and soul of this city that had Hoda Kotb hooked from the day she arrived. Here, her best friend of almost 30 years, Karen Swensen, shares the ...

[beignets](https://www.southernliving.com/recipes/new-orleans-beignets), and [frozen sno-balls](https://www.southernliving.com/travel/louisiana/new-orleans-snowballs). They go to parades, root for the Saints, and dance to “Oh Happy Day!” I remember the first time I heard that song. “It was the perfect corner of New Orleans—all the fun of the Quarter and the charm of a quiet neighborhood. “Let’s go to Jazz Fest!” she exclaimed on that spring day in 1993 as she grabbed her keys and flip-flops. “Look, Mom!” Hope squealed as she caught a string of beads as long as she was tall. I want them to see what it’s like to be front and center at the parade,” she says. She brings them to the parks, where they play on the giant limbs of ancient oak trees in the shadows of the swaying Spanish moss above. Hoda steps onto the balcony—to their delight as well as hers—and then quickly retreats. That’s the beauty of her success. "It's the closest to a hometown I’ve ever felt,” says Hoda Kotb, broadcast journalist and co-anchor of NBC’s Today show. As we reminisce about the good old days during this interview at the Soniat House, we hear the familiar beat of a brass band playing outside. It was 1992, and Hoda had just wrapped up a job interview in icy Minneapolis when she stepped off the plane in New Orleans to the rhythm of a jazz band that had gathered at the airport to welcome home a fellow passenger.

Hoda Kotb shared with Southern Living her love for New Orleans and why it's important her daughter feel a connection to the city.

“I want them to know the feeling of a random jazz band popping up in the middle of nowhere and music and people dancing and people not caring what people think. “I want them to have the feeling of eating a warm croissant or a warm beignet,” she noted. “It really is awesome,” Hoda explained of sharing the city with her two girls at the time. This is such an incredible place and an incredible city.” “I want so badly for this to be part of their lives because it’s such an important part of mine.” [Southern Living magazine's annual "South's Best" issue,](https://www.southernliving.com/hoda-kotb-secret-new-orleans-7089427) and in the special double issue, she dives into all the things she loves about New Orleans.

Run by Cindy Brennan of the famed restaurant family, you'll enjoy an upscale casual atmosphere and down-home Creole/Cajun cooking. If Hoda's in town, she's ...

TODAY show co-anchor Hoda Kotb thanked viewers for their support in an Instagram post after sharing that her daughter Hope had been in the hospital.

“So she said, ‘If I ever see you not wearing it, I’m coming to get you,’” Hoda added. “I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day,” Hoda said. “And also anyone who’s ever gone through an illness with a child, I thought I understood you, but I don’t. It’s worn down because I rub it all the time, and it says, ‘God’s got this,’” she told Jenna Bush Hager. I’m just so happy.” “I’m so grateful she’s home.

The “Today” coanchor made her return to the show following her three-year-old daughter's ICU stay.

And I’m grateful to my family, and I’m grateful to friends like you who were there every single day.” “I love you too. [Cringey Sexcapades](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/sumner-redstone-in-love-the-cringey-sexcapades-of-a-horny-billionaire?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723)of a Horny Billionaire [What Is Cinema?](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/what-is-cinema?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723)Rian Johnson, Halle Berry, and More Share Their Inspiration [Gloria Swanson’s Legendary Memoir](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/wayne-lawson-on-ghostwriting-gloria-swanson?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723) [Vanity Fair’s 2023 Hollywood Issue](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/02/hollywood-issue-portfolio-2023?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-022723)Welcomes You to the After-Party of Our Dreams “I’m grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell, who were amazing, and the nurses. I was waiting for that day to come.” Hope has since been discharged and is recovering at home, Kotb said. I love you. She’s got a family health matter that she’s been dealing with.” Kotb remained silent on the matter, only posting inspirational quotes on her I have read them all. “My youngest, Hope, was in the ICU for a few days and in the hospital for a little more than a week,” Kotb told her cohost Savannah Guthrie, who was also briefly away from Today after testing positive for COVID last week. Kotb revealed on Monday’s show that her on-air absence was due to her three-year-old daughter Hope’s brief hospitalization.

The Today host reminisced about her family trip to the lively city in the April cover story for Southern Living.

The 'Today' anchor shared that her 3-year-old daughter, Hope, recently spent a week in the hospital. .

I want them to know the feeling of a random jazz band popping up in the middle of nowhere and music and people dancing and people not caring what people think. She adds, "I want them to have the feeling of eating a warm croissant or a warm beignet. "I want so badly for this to be part of their lives because it’s such an important part of mine." "She says, 'If I ever see you not wearing it, I'm coming to get you.'" On Tuesday, the Today show co-anchor took to Instagram to post a message of thanks to her followers and fans. I have a family who loves me.

Hoda Kotb returned to Today on Monday after taking time off to care for daughter Hope, 3, who was in the hospital with health complications.

"I feel blessed and grateful, really, really, really grateful," Kotb later added. And I'm grateful for my family and I'm grateful to friends like you who were there every single day. I was waiting for that day to come, and we are watching her closely." So for every single person going through some stuff, I get it." "So I'm grateful for the doctors at Weill Cornell who were amazing and the nurses. "I'm so grateful she's home, she is back home.

Gracing the cover of Southern Living latest issue, Hoda Kotb explained why she "so badly" wants her daughters to call New Orleans home—just as she did while ...

"Today" show host Hoda Kotb expressed her gratitude for the outpouring support following the hospitalization of her three-year-old daughter Hope.

“Today” host Craig Melvin initially [addressed the concerns](https://pagesix.com/2023/03/01/hoda-kotbs-today-show-absence-caused-by-family-health-matter/) on March 1, explaining that she was out due to a “family health matter.” One for me and one for you,’” she recalled. I am just so happy.”