Kotb previously hosted Today's fourth hour with Bush Hager for five years before departing the show in January 2025

Hoda Kotb returned to 30 Rockefeller Plaza to pay her former fourth hour of Today cohost a visit. Kotb, 60, surprised Jenna Bush Hager backstage at the NBC morning show ahead of the Tuesday, March 11,

Hoda Kotb appeared on the Today show, surprising viewers and maybe even a few of her co-stars. She departed as an anchor from NBC’s morning program earlier this year, after seven years as a main anchor and 18 years hosting Today’s fourth-hour program.

Hoda Kotb surprised her former Today Show co-host Jenna Bush Hager backstage ahead of the morning meeting on March 11. The heartfelt reunion was captured on video and shared on the Today