What Hoda Kotb REALLY thinks of her Today show co-hosts past and present from Matt Lauer to Savannah Guthrie
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Hoda Kotb has built several meaningful friendships with her Today show co-stars over the course of her near three-decade career at NBC News – and will no doubt nurture them long after she's left. The anchor, 60, is preparing to depart from the network with her last episode set to air on Friday, January 10.
![[Hoda and Savannah Guthrie have helmed the Today show together since 2017]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/09/19/93927447-0-image-m-207_1736450149640.jpg)
And while she's moving on to focus on raising her two young daughters, Hope and Haley, she'll be leaving a huge Hoda-shaped hole at Studio 1A that will no doubt be felt across the board. Ahead of her exit, Hoda recently reflected on her 'core' friendship group and what they mean to her.
![[Savannah praised Hoda for her kind gesture after they began fronting the Today show]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/09/19/93927453-0-image-m-208_1736450160657.jpg)
'You want to be with people who are expanding and curious and trying to kind of make the world better and who think beyond their own little world,' she told Today. As she gears up to say her final farewell, DailyMail.com takes a look at Hoda's friendships with her esteemed Today show colleagues past and present.
![[Hoda and Jenna began hosting the fourth hour of the Today show in 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/09/19/93927767-0-image-m-210_1736450384492.jpg)
Hoda Kotb has built several meaningful friendships with her Today show co-stars. Savannah Guthrie. Hoda joined Savannah Guthrie on the Today show after disgraced anchor Matt Lauer was fired in 2017, and the pair soon formed a close friendship. In 2022, Savannah, 53, heaped praise on her co-host during a celebration for the show at The Paley Center.
![[The presenting duo have delighted audiences with their undeniable chemistry]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/09/19/93927755-0-image-m-212_1736450403169.jpg)
On Hoda replacing Matt, she said: 'All I know was in that moment, it felt like I could drown if Hoda hadn't reached down and grabbed my hand.'. 'I will always say she saved the show full stop,' she added. 'And holding hands with her and being like, "We're going to do this together," meant everything to me. I don't think I had the confidence by myself.'.
![[Hoda hosted the Today show's fourth hour with Kathie Lee Gifford from 2008 to 2019]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2025/01/09/19/93927791-0-image-m-214_1736450453567.jpg)
