Hoda Kotb Reveals Just How Serious She is With Man ‘TODAY’ Co-Host Introduced

Kotb referred to as her colleague ‘an awesome picker.’

Hoda Kotb has re-entered the relationship scene. Just a few days after revealing that she went on her first date in two years, Kotb shared an replace on her burgeoning romance. In an interview with Leisure Tonight, Kotb mentioned she met the person via good friend and Immediately present colleague Jenna Bush Hager.

“Jenna is like, ‘How did I do?’ as a result of she needs to go to Heaven. Apparently, for those who match three folks up [you get to go],” Kotb joked about Hager, calling her “an awesome picker.”

“I had a good time… I had a good time on our date. I beloved it,” she gushed. “There was a second one already. Hey, that is the way it goes… We’ll have our third developing. It is actually enjoyable.”

After splitting from her longtime associate, Joel Schiffman, in January 2022, Kotb spoke about her causes for eager to return to the relationship scene. “Life is gorgeous. Strive issues, exit, get out of your own home and your condo. I really feel like life is supposed to be skilled and [you should] step out into it,” she mentioned. “I adore it.”

Slightly than specializing in romantic love alone, Kotb hopes she’s going to bear in mind her ardour for residing all through her lifetime. “I’m hoping that I continue to grow. I really feel like life is about repotting. I really feel like I’ve repotted so many instances in my life. While you’re choosing up, it is like, ‘Oh my God.’ Roots are up within the air. I am like, ‘Am I dying?’ And then you definately get submerged into fertile floor,” she mentioned. “… It occurred after I went from this job, or this relationship, or this household state of affairs. You are continually doing it.”

“I simply hope and pray in my lifetime I am that method into my 90s. Repotting ought to be one thing that we’re doing on a regular basis,” Kotb added. “The opposite factor we ought to be doing on a regular basis is falling in love with all the things. A pet, a restaurant, a e book, a scent, it would not matter. My mother did that… That is what life is about to me.”

As Kotb, 59, advised Immediately viewers in 2022, there had been “loads of prayerful and significant discussions” between her and Schiffman, 65, earlier than they determined they had been higher off as mates. There was no single occasion that triggered the break up, she defined.

 “It isn’t like one thing occurred. They are saying typically relationships are supposed to be there for a cause, a season or a lifetime, this was for a season,” Kotb mentioned.

As for Schiffman, a financier, Kotb solely spoke extremely of him. “He is an awesome man. He is a really variety and loving particular person, and I really feel privileged to have spent eight years with him,” she mentioned. “We’re each good and we’re each form of occurring our method and our path. We’ll be good mother and father to these two beautiful children.”