Will Hoda Kotb replace Kelly Clarkson as host of shows, giving rise to “Hoda in the afternoon”? The retired presenter of the morning quickly closed that rumor on Wednesday when he reappeared in “Today” for the first time since his departure of January of the show.
“They think, I want to ask them a real question? Do you think that if I ever returned to television, do you know where the only place I would return would return?” Kotb asked his former colleagues after replacement coanfrerion Craig Melvin asked about that rumor. “Right here. This is the place.”
“Remove, it's not true,” he said about Clarkson's rumor.
Something that is TRUE? Kotb revealed that he left “today” to take care of daughter Hope, 6, who was diagnosed about two years ago with type 1 diabetes. Previously known as youth diabetes because it is most frequently diagnosed in childhood, the autoimmune disorder can also occur in adults.
Hope's health problems emerged more than two years ago, he said. Now the child has to use synthetic insulin regularly to stay well, since his condition avoids insulin production by his pancreas.
“Like anyone with a child who has type 1 [knows]Especially a small child, you are looking constantly, you are constantly monitoring, you are constantly checking, which was what I did all the time when it was [at ‘Today’]”He told Melvin and Savannah Guthrie.” You are distracted. “
Hope, however, is like “all children”, except for about five minutes at breakfast, lunch, dinner and sometimes during the night, Kotb said.
But being there for his daughter had become non -negotiable, he told people in a story published on Wednesday, so “today” had to be part of yesterday. No more alarms come out at 3:15 am every morning.
Now he sleeps until 4:30 am he also just launched a new well -being company, Joy 101. But their children are still their approach.
“I really wanted and needed to be here to watch [Hope]. So, every time you need something, and it can happen at night, several times, I'm awake, I'm awake, ”he said.
“But I would never want, ever, hope to grow and say: 'Oh, my mother left her job because [of me]. 'It wasn't just that. But if you look at it cumulatively, it was part of that decision. “
Kotb, 60, and former promised Joel Schiffman adopted Hope in 2019 and sister Haley in 2017. The couple separated in 2022 but is still a friend and co -star.
Hope, Kotb told People: “He is a happy, healthy, rambiente and incredible child, and we have to see her. Diabetes is part of her, but not her. I hope it shapes her, but never defines her.”
