Looks like Hoda Kotb won’t be returning to the small screen full-time following her Today show exit earlier this year.
A source exclusively tells Us Weekly that online rumors suggesting Kotb, 60, will take over Kelly Clarkson’s eponymous daytime talk show are “not true.” Instead, Kotb is focused on her upcoming projects, which include her wellness app and company and her latest book, Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life, which hits bookshelves in September.
“She has so much [going] on,” the insider shared. “She has office space rented in Bronxville near her home. Joanna and Chip [Gaines] are renovating it for her. She has retreats and podcasts, she’s making money that she couldn’t do if she was tied to NBC. She’s got QVC deals, paid ads on her Instagram and making lots of her own money now.”
Before she bid farewell to Today on January 10, Kotb opened up about her next career steps on The Kelly Clarkson Show. “I am starting a wellness app and company that will involve retreats and a podcast and all kinds of things that we can get together, do things that I love,” she announced on the show’s January 6 episode. “It’s not like going to Mexico with your girls, which is fun, but this is something that when you leave, you’ll go like, ‘Oh my gosh, I feel transformed. I feel different.’”
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At the time, Kotb stated she was “in the building process” of the project and that the app was set to debut in the spring. One month later, Kotb teased via Instagram that she had “something fun cooking” with Joanna Gaines.
Earlier this month, Kotb launched the website for her new, self-titled wellness company a week before its Wednesday, May 28, launch. Kotb will celebrate her latest project by returning to Today for the first time since her exit on Wednesday, during which she will guest host the show’s fourth hour with her former Today With Hoda & Jenna cohost, Jenna Bush Hager.
Kelly Clarkson, Hoda Kotb. NDZ/Star Max/GC ImagesClarkson, meanwhile, took a step back from her talk show in March due to a personal matter. Celebs such as Simu Liu, Roy Wood Jr., Wanda Sykes, Brooke Shields, Willie Geist and Molly Sims filled in for the Grammy winner before she resumed filming episodes on March 13.
She celebrated the show’s milestone 1,000th episode later that month. “Our show premiered on September 9, 2019, with the help of some great friends,” she said during the show. “Over the next five-and-a-half years, we have made 999 episodes. I cannot believe today marks the 1,000th. It’s crazy.”
Clarkson, 43, added, “For 1,000 episodes, we have laughed together, we have cried together with beautiful stories, sang together with some people, danced together, celebrated and competed together.”
Earlier this year, reports spread online claiming Clarkson was looking to leave her talk show next year to spend more time with her kids — daughter River, 10, and son Remy, 9 — whom she shares with her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock.
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During a May 9 concert in Atlantic City, Clarkson expressed her displeasure at not being able to perform more often because of her talk show. “We are bummed ’cause we love doing shows, and it’s hard to fit it in, so it’s cool when it does work out with the schedule,” she told attendees in online concert footage. “And it’s cool to get to see your faces and feed off y’all. Thank you so much for having so much energy.”
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