Savannah Guthrie Teases Hoda Kotb’s Return to Today

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Savannah Guthrie Opens Up About Hoda Kotb’s Departure from Today Show (Exclusive)

Savannah Guthrie knows Hoda Kotb is cooking up something really special.

Over three months after Hoda exited Today following nearly 17 years at the NBC morning show, her former colleague shared insight into her upcoming return. 

"She's coming back," Savannah told E! News' Carolina Bermudez in a joint interview with co-anchor Craig Melvin at the celebration for the launch of Today Loves Food: Recipes from America's Favorite Kitchen. "She's going to come and reveal her next chapter on the Today Show. So you'll see her there." 

Meanwhile, Craig, 45, admitted that her upcoming cameo feels like she's simply "coming back from vacation."

Although Hoda—is now building her own wellness app and company—bid farewell to Today viewers in January, she's still kept in close touch with her former cohosts. "We see her all the time," Savannah added. "She's great. We just had breakfast last week." (For more with Savannah and the Today crew, tune into E! News, tonight, May 1 at 11 p.m.)

After all, the team knows that food is the perfect way to bring people together. And in their new cookbook, each person brought a part of their personality for their chosen recipes. For instance, Savannah,  53, admitted that she prefers snacking over a full meal.

"It's girl dinner," she told Craig and Carolina. "I brought a lime drink, a cheese plate, some guac and pigs in a blanket." 

When it came to each person's collection, she believes there's no single winner, although Al Roker has "the most elevated recipes."

As Savannah put it, "The reason there actually was no real competition is because everybody comes at it with a different level."

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Craig, with the help of his mom, highlighted the Southern meals passed down in his family. However, it wasn't easy getting the measurements or directions for the book since, like many home cooks, she often eyed it all. 

"The hard part was getting her to actually write down the recipe," he admitted. "It took a couple of months and she was a little stressed about it."

Even Hoda has a few recipes including her upside down salad. She's no stranger to cooking, as she was often in the kitchen on set. As she told Today.com in an interview published April 29 about that time, "Doing the cooking segments is one of my favorites memories from my time on the show."

Now, take a closer look at all the stars who make up the Today family.

(E! News and Today are part of the NBCUniversal family.)

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Hoda's Halloween

"Another Halloween in the books," wrote the host as she celebrated the day with her daughter Haley Joy

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Carson and Siri's Bundle of Joy

The anchor and his wife announced the happy news when they welcomed their fourth child, Goldie Patricia Daly!

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Megyn Kelly

Kelly has kept the lives of her three young children—Edward, Yardley, and Thatcher— relatively quiet, but she and her novelist husband make plenty of their own public appearances as a duo.

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Kathie Lee

Hoda's former co-host is a loving mommy to her own two children, Cassidy Gifford and Cody Gifford, with her late husband, Frank Gifford.

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Savannah Guthrie

The TV personality is a mommy to two little ones, Vale Guthrie Feldman and Charles Max Feldman, with her husband Mike Feldman. She welcomed Charles into the world in December 2016.

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Al Roker

The anchor and his wife, Deborah Roberts, are parents to Leila Roker and Nicholas Albert Roker.

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Willie Geist

The anchor of Sunday Today has been married to his wife, Christina, since 2003. They're parents to two children, George William Geist and Lucie Joy Geist.

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