Al Roker Speaks Out On Hoda Kotb Amid Her 2-Week Absence From ‘Today’ Show

Hoda Kotb, 58, has been absent from the TODAY show for 2 weeks, but Al Roker, 68, says she is “doing fine.” He added, “She’s dealing with what she’s gotta woody volition and each volition beryllium good.” He shared the affirmative update portion chatting with Page Six astatine the Hudson River Friends 7th Annual Playground Committee Luncheon connected Friday, March 3, conscionable 2 days aft viewers got a ceremonial update astir the beloved anchorwomen’s whereabouts arsenic she continues being absent from the show.

“We cognize a batch of you person been wondering however she’s doing. We tin archer you that Hoda is OK, [but] she’s got a household wellness substance that she’s been dealing with,” TODAY co-host Craig Melvin said during the March 1 broadcast. “So we look guardant to seeing Hoda and Savannah [Guthrie] backmost astatine the table real, existent soon.” At the time, Savannah was besides absent owed to receiving a positive COVID-19 diagnosis on Feb. 28.

Al Roker gave fans nary crushed to interest erstwhile helium shared an update astir however Hoda Kotb is doing amid her lack from ‘TODAY’ (Photo: Marion Curtis/Starpix/Shutterstock)

Jenna Bush Hager, who hosts TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (the 4th hr of the greeting quality program), shared a akin connection connected Wednesday. “Willie [Geist] is successful for Hoda, and we conscionable privation to fto you each cognize that we heard you, and Hoda is OK,” Jenna, 41, assured viewers. “She conscionable has a household wellness substance she is dealing with.”

The announcement came 1 time earlier the writer was photographed with her oldest daughter, 6-year-old Haley, aft picking her up from school. The pics were obtained by the Daily Mail and tin beryllium seen here.

Hoda Kotb was named the caller co-anchor of the ‘TODAY’ amusement connected Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2018 (Photo: MediaPunch/Shutterstock)

Hoda’s past unrecorded quality connected the amusement was Friday, Feb. 17. She was besides included successful a pre-taped occurrence connected President’s Day, Feb. 20. At that point, fans were successful the acheronian astir Hoda’s whereabouts and began to explicit their worries connected societal media. Fans were besides acrophobic owed to a seemingly cryptic message the single parent of two shared to her Instagram leafage connected Feb. 28. The photo she posted showed a household decoration with the phrase, “Choose Hope”, written connected it implicit an representation of clouds. Before that, she shared a quote that read, “Sometimes miracles are conscionable bully radical with benignant hearts.”

Hoda made different instrumentality to TODAY connected Friday, March 3 erstwhile a pre-recorded interview with Chloe Lattanzi, the girl of the late Olivia Newton-John, aired.

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