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Hoda Kotb is out of the Today show with the flu!

“If you’re missing Hoda, so are we. Guess what, she’s got the flu. And we think she’ll be out ’til probably mid week, maybe longer. So we’re sending her our best wishes this morning,” Savannah Guthrie announced on the show on Monday (March 2). The 55-year-old host is recovering at home.

“She did get the flu shot for those who are wondering,” Savannah added.

We hope Hoda Kotb gets well soon!

If you missed it, Hoda had some big news a few months ago!

Hoda Kotb is opening up about the awkward moment that occurred during her interview with Nick and Vanessa Lachey.

During the Today show interview last week, host Hoda mentioned that Jessica Simpson recently expressed that Vanessa and Nick sent her a gift once during a milestone moment in her life. Vanessa jumped in and denied doing any such thing.

Hoda admitted on Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen on Wednesday night (February 12) that she didn’t expect the interview to go that way at all.

“Here’s the thing: When I was interviewing Jessica, she was talking about, like, on what great terms everyone was,” Hoda explained. “Like, ‘I’m so happy for them. I have children. They have children.’ And she mentioned something, I thought, about a gift. So, I was like ‘Oh, so everybody’s happy.’ So when they came, I was like, ‘Isn’t that cool? Everybody’s friends.’ And then that wasn’t the way it was received.”

Hoda, who was joined by her co-host Jenna Bush Hager, said she “didn’t understand what was going on” and “actually was confused.”

Vanessa Lachey recently reacted to a fan calling her out for that Jessica Simpson moment.

Hoda Kotb is overcome with emotion!

The TV anchor and co-host Jenna Bush Hager debuted the new fourth hour of Today, called Hoda & Jenna & Friends, on Thursday (February 6).

The show kicked off in front of Hoda‘s fiance, Joel Schiffman, Jenna‘s husband Henry Hager, and a live studio audience at their new set.

“Y’all know what Hoda said to me on the way in? She goes, this is our wedding day. Joel, we’re practicing for you, okay?” Jenna joked.

“When everybody is busy in life, they’re busy. Joel had a really, really, really super busy day at work and I didn’t even ask him to come. I didn’t bring it up, and I didn’t want him to feel bad and say he can’t come so I didn’t bring it up. And then, I sent him a text and said, ‘If you want to come any Thursday.’ And he said, ‘How about this Thursday? I’m so glad you asked,’” Hoda revealed before blowing him a kiss.

“Anyway, it’s super sweet.”

Their families also surprised the co-hosts with flowers during the show in a super cute moment.

Hoda recently revealed whether she wants more kids with Joel. Find out!

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Hoda Kotb stops by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing on Wednesday (January 29) and opens up about her recent engagement to her longtime boyfriend, Joel Schiffman!

The 55-year-old Today show host also talks to Ellen about her two daughters – Haley Joy, 2, and Hope Catherine – how they have brought clarity to her life, and whether she wants to have more kids.

“I don’t know. I’m not 100 [percent] sure,” Hoda says after a lengthy pause when Ellen asks her about the potential of expanding her family. “I’m a sign person — I always look for signs — and I feel like there are some signs out there that are pointing to [having more kids].”

“I was scribbling in my journal and I was asking myself that question and I wrote in there, ‘I’m wondering if we should.’ And I wrote, ‘Do we have enough love?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes,’” Hoda continues. “And I said, ‘Do we have enough time?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Would our family be more enhanced?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’”

“So I was thinking maybe the answer’s yes,” Hoda says. “And plus, when you’re parents later in life… watching Haley and Hope together, all I really want is for them to have someone to hold their hand forever, and that’s it. That’s all I want. I was scared, because we’re older, like maybe [it’s too late]. But then I realized they’ll have each other.”

Jessica Simpson is getting candid about her past.

The 39-year-old singer and entrepreneur sat down for an interview with Hoda Kotb for TODAY Wednesday (January 29) about her memoir Open Book, out on February 4.

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“At the time I didn’t really understand what was happening. I knew something was wrong. I knew it was wrong what was going on. This was a very close person, and she was being abused. It happened throughout a long time in my life,” she said of being abused by a family friend at the age of six.

“I was a preacher’s daughter. I was taught to be a virgin until I got married, and so I never wanted to share these sexual things that were happening because I didn’t want to hurt anybody.”

She went on to explain how she finally worked up the courage to say something.

“My parents’ reaction — they did the best that they could. That’s a heavy thing to hear from your child. They ignored it with their words, for sure, but they took action, and I never had to do the sleepovers again. I never had to go back.”

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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are opening up about weighing themselves live on TV.

During a recent episode of Today, the co-hosts decided to step onto a scale in front of viewers to reveal their weights before they began intermittent fasting.

At the time, Hoda weighed 158lbs and Jenna weighed 171lbs.

Now looking back at it, they realized they didn’t think things through, and that it brought up all struggles with body image.

“I, for a second, was transported to when I was like a chubby little girl and found a scale in my mom’s room and weighed myself. And, I, for a moment, was stuck there,” Jenna, who just had a baby in August, shared on Monday’s episode of Today. “All I heard was that. It made me feel kind of bad. I weighed myself, the last time, when I was in college, when I weighted a lot less, so it was a shock, it really was.”

Hoda added: “Look, we feel grateful. Don’t get us wrong. We’re healthy, my God no one knows better how much that matters. There’s something about standing on the scale and watching the number, like, not stop. I was like, ‘Wait, I don’t remember this number.’”

Hoda then went on to say that she and Jenna are now on this health-focused journey to feel better for their kids.

“It taught us a little lesson,” Hoda said. “I do think we’re doing this because we want to feel better. We want to feel better for our girls. We want to feel happier.”

“We teach our girls that they’re so much more than the way we look,” Jenna added. “That they’re brilliant and interesting and funny and smart and caring and compassionate and that there’s so much more in life than a number on the scale.”

Hoda Kotb is engaged to her longtime financier boyfriend Joel Schiffman!

The 55-year-old Today show host confirmed the news on the morning show on Monday (November 25) and showed off her ring! See the photos in the gallery below.

Hoda spoke about the proposal, while happened when they were on a beach vacation.

Hoda and Joel haven’t revealed the news to her two daughters, Haley Joy, 2, and Hope Catherine, who was adopted in April, just yet.

Watch the video for all the details on the proposal – and congrats to the happy couple on the wonderful news!