Tamron Hall is happy with her former NBC colleague Hoda Kotb.
Whereas talking with PEOPLE on the inaugural Food & Wine Classic in Charleston, the previous co-host of Right this moment’s third hour reacted to the information that Kotb, 60, is exiting her present position on the long-running morning present.
“Oh, what? I perceive it. I do. I perceive it drastically. Being a mother — being a mother who’s a bit older, you need to give your little one, your loved ones as a lot time and love as attainable,” says Corridor, 54, who’s mother to son Moses, 5.
On Sept. 26, Kotb introduced she would depart Right this moment to spend extra time together with her household. She lately moved to a home within the suburbs with daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4. She’s going to keep in her present NBC roles till early 2025.
“I believe it is a gorgeous determination and one which was not straightforward to make, however I am happy with her,” says Corridor.
The Tamron Hall Show host departed NBC herself in February 2017, after NBC introduced that she was dropping her time slot co-hosting Right this moment‘s 9 a.m. hour to Megyn Kelly. (In 2019, Hall’s own daily talk show premiered and is now in its sixth season.) Regardless of the stunning exit on the time, there was no love misplaced amongst her former colleagues.
“I respect that call and want her and her lovely daughters nothing however the most effective,” says Corridor.
Kotb penned a letter to the employees of NBC on Sept. 26. earlier than sharing the departure information on air.
“As I write this, my coronary heart is all around the map,” she wrote. “I do know I’m making the suitable determination, but it surely’s a painful one. And also you all are the rationale why. They are saying two issues could be proper on the similar time, and I’m feeling that so deeply proper now. I like you and it’s time for me to go away the present.”
The journalist, who has been at NBC for 26 years, will stay on the community in some capability.
“Fortunately and gratefully, I plan to stay part of the NBC household, the longest work relationship I’ve been fortunate sufficient to carry near my coronary heart,” she wrote in her letter.
Alongside Savannah Guthrie, Kotb is the co-anchor of NBC Information’ Right this moment and the co-host of Right this moment‘s fourth hour alongside Jenna Bush Hager.
Kotb and Guthrie, 52, made historical past because the first-ever pair of feminine co-hosts of the favored morning discuss present.
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