Weekend update from Rockefeller Center.
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Colin Jost addressed Hoda Kotb’s decision to leave “Today” show during its Weekend Update segment with Michael Che on September 28.
However, the 60-year-old journalist had announced the news just a few days ago She is leaving the show after 26 years He Will remain in an unspecified role on NBC Family. She will remain on “Today” with Savannah Guthrie, Jenna Bush Hager and others until early 2025.
“Hoda Kotb announced she will be leaving the Today show,” Jost, 42, began. “Hoda says she’ll remember her time on the show fondly, not at all.”
The comedian then took a dig at Matt Lauer, who was fired from the news program in November 2017 following allegations about his behavior. A photo of Lauer photoshopped into Kotb’s hair appeared behind the joist.
“Hota Kotb will be replaced by – oh no! – Matt Lauer-B,” he joked.
Lauer, 66, was cleared of multiple claims of sexual harassment and discrimination, which he denied. He also spoke out when former NBC News colleague Brooke Nevils told investigative journalist Ronan Farrow that Lauer had raped her while they were both in Russia for the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
“In a new book, it is alleged that the extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter to which I have previously acknowledged was actually an assault,” Lauer said in a letter in 2019, according to his attorney Libby Locke. ” “Clearly false, ignores the facts, and disregards common sense.”
In 2017, it was Kotb and Guthrie who announced the shocking news of their departures at the helm of “Today.”
“This has been a very difficult morning for both of us. I’ve known Matt for 15 years and I love him as a friend and a colleague, and again like you were saying Savannah, the guy we know is a great guy to reconcile what we’re hearing with It is difficult to sit. Who walks into this building every day,” Kotb said at the time. “We both woke up early in the morning to the news, and we’re trying to process it and figure it out and that’s going to take some time.”
Guthrie, 52, chimed in, “We’re processing this with all of you at home. We promise to be transparent, and straightforward, and continue this important conversation.”
Last year, people reported that Lauer has “lost a lot of old friends”. news program and now living a “pretty good life.”
“It’s a very laid-back lifestyle, but he has nothing to complain about,” the source said. “He’s dating, he’s close to his kids. He still owns the huge horse farm he shared with [ex-wife] annette [Roque] On Long Island and they manage it together. “He has navigated it very well.”
Lauer is currently dating marketing guru Shamin Abass Since divorcing Roque after 20 years of marriage. Lauer reportedly agreed to pay the former model and horseman $20 million for their settlement after the scandal broke.
In April, sources told Us Weekly that Lauer — who at the time made a rare appearance at Don Lemon’s wedding — wanted to get back into the media.
“He’s started talking to people,” the insider said. “He’s planning his next act, he’s still very upset about how he was portrayed, and he still feels like he was a victim.”
“He wants to be relevant again; What exactly it is has not been decided yet,” the source said. “He’s very thin-skinned – don’t expect an apology, he’s the one who feels the need to apologize.”
