the Today show The crew prepares to say their final farewell Hoda Kotb She hosts her final show on Friday, January 10.
After seven years in the announcer's seat next door Savannah GuthrieQutb officially retires.
But before she checked out for the last time and left her anchor chair behind, people were in Today sHow the control room pulled a final prank on Qutb.
Returning from break after the first half hour of the show, Guthrie began the script.
“We got back at 7:30, it's Friday morning,” Guthrie said. “It's a day of mixed emotions as we prepare to bid farewell to an icon here at 30 Rock.”
“Let's face it, all over the world we're going to be counting down to this,” Guthrie continued as she started laughing and the cameras panned to the still-lit Rockefeller Center Christmas tree standing behind the Christmas tree. today Studio in New York City.
Hoda Kotb is leaving the Today show after five years as a cohost and nearly three decades at NBC. Kotb, 60, announced the news on Air with Savannah Guthrie on Thursday, September 26, and both women looked visibly emotional. “I realized that it was time for me to turn the page at the age of sixty, and try something (…)
“Yes, our beloved Christmas tree is coming down tomorrow.”
The prank turned what could have been tears into belly laughs as Qutb, Guthrie and Khalifa Qutb Craig Melvin Guthrie realized she wasn't talking about a pole but rather the famous Christmas tree, so many people travel to see each holiday season.
“What? Did you think we were talking about something else?” Guthrie joked as she buried her face in her hands.
Guthrie and Melvin praised the Control Room for their mood-lightening joke.
“Awesome,” Melvin added. “They had to attack you one last time,” Guthrie told Kotb on behalf of those in the control room.
The Hoda Kotb Show news coming out today is bittersweet for its hosts. “I just turned 60, and that was a landmark moment for me when I turned 60 because I started thinking about that decade, like, what does this decade mean? What does it hold? What will it be for me? Pole, (…)
Qutb’s decision to retire comes after her celebration of her sixtieth birthday today yard.
She said she saw her career very clearly and realized it was time to shift her focus to her beloved mother and two young daughters.
Before her final broadcast, Kotb took to Instagram to share a quick message, saying: “How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
