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Hoda Kotb & Longtime Partner Joel Schiffman Split, End Engagement

Hoda Kotb & Longtime Partner Joel Schiffman Split, End Engagement

Hoda Kotb and her longtime partner Joel Schiffman have broken up.

Many Today show viewers were wondering why Hoda had not been wearing her engagement ring in recent weeks. They got engaged in November of 2019.

Click inside to read what Hoda Kotb said on the air on the Today show this morning…

Joel and I have had a lot of prayerful and meaningful conversations over the holidays and we decided that we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorably delightful children and as friends,” Hoda said. “Its not like something happened. They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason, a season or a lifetime, this was for a season.”

Hoda added that the reason she was “struggling with ‘What do I say?’” to announce the news.

They share daughters Hope, 2, and Haley, 4.

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