{"id":77632,"date":"2024-02-22T02:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/hoda-kotb-says-shes-been-texting-kelly-rowland-hopes-for-do-over\/"},"modified":"2024-02-22T02:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T02:01:27","slug":"hoda-kotb-says-shes-been-texting-kelly-rowland-hopes-for-do-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/22\/hoda-kotb-says-shes-been-texting-kelly-rowland-hopes-for-do-over\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoda Kotb Says She&#8217;s Been Texting Kelly Rowland, Hopes for Do-Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/hoda-kotb\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoda Kotb<\/a><span>\u00a0is the first one to admit that the <\/span><em><span>Today <\/span><\/em><span>show&#8217;s dressing rooms are &#8220;tiny.&#8221; They&#8217;re a &#8220;work in progress,&#8221; she says, and perhaps in need of a facelift (like wallpaper!). That being said, she&#8217;s hoping\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/kelly-rowland\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kelly Rowland<\/a><span>\u00a0will come back and host the fourth hour of <\/span><em><span>Today<\/span><\/em><span> following reports that the singer walked off the set &#8212; and Kotb says the wheels are in motion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>On Wednesday, ET&#8217;s Rachel Smith spoke to Kotb and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/jenna-bush-hager\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a><span>\u00a0at <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/savannah-guthrie\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Guthrie<\/a><span>&#8216;s book launch party for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mostly-What-God-Does-Reflections\/dp\/1400341124\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Mostly What God Does<\/em><\/a><span>\u00a0in New York City,\u00a0and the <\/span><em><span>Today<\/span><\/em><span> co-hosts had a lot to say after reports surfaced last week that the Destiny&#8217;s Child singer walked off set as guest host because she was reportedly unhappy with the dressing room the show provided her.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;We decided we&#8217;re gonna re-wallpaper them &#8217;cause I like interior design, so I&#8217;ve taken over,&#8221; Hager said of the dressing rooms, to which Kotb responded with, &#8220;Look, we can confess our dressing rooms are not the greatest.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hager apparently knows firsthand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;You should come in mine,&#8221; she joked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After ribbing Hager that her dressing room&#8217;s practically &#8220;a closet,&#8221; Kotb admitted that none of the dressing rooms &#8220;are that great.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;But it&#8217;s kind of the charm of the <\/span><em><span>Today <\/span><\/em><span>show,&#8221; Kotb continued. &#8220;If you&#8217;ve ever been backstage [on] Broadway and gone to one of those dressing rooms, you&#8217;re like in these tiny rooms for months and months. That&#8217;s kind of what the <\/span><em><span>Today <\/span><\/em><span>show is like. You walk around and it&#8217;s such a beautiful place, but there&#8217;s tiny little spaces.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>After Rowland reportedly walked off set,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/rita-ora\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rita Ora<\/a><span>\u00a0&#8212; who was also a guest on the show Thursday &#8212;\u00a0was tapped to fill in at the last minute. At Guthrie&#8217;s book launch party, Kotb was asked if she was bummed she wasn&#8217;t able to host the fourth hour with Rowland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was bummed. I love Kelly. We love Kelly,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She&#8217;s one of our all-time faves, and there&#8217;s no one who&#8217;s more gracious or graceful than Kelly &#8230; we&#8217;ve been texting back and forth and I gave her a call. I said, &#8216;Come on, girl. We&#8217;re waiting. We&#8217;ll do a re-do.&#8217; So, hopefully we&#8217;ll do a re-do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Hager joked that the wallpapering may not happen if and when Rowland decides to come back and host, but Hager&#8217;s adamant &#8220;we need a re-do.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Following reports Rowland walked off the set, the singer&#8217;s rep, Yvette Noel-Schure, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/kelly-rowlands-rep-speaks-out-after-she-reportedly-walks-off-today-set-220110\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">told ET<\/a><span>, &#8220;After 28 years of knowing her, Kelly Rowland remains one of the kindest, most amiable humans I have ever met and have had the blessing to represent.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rowland has yet to directly address the drama.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In any event, the <\/span><em><span>Today<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0gals were happy &#8212; and proud &#8212; to be supporting Guthrie&#8217;s book launch.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I kinda feel like we&#8217;re accomplishing something, too,&#8221; Hager said. &#8220;It feels like a collective celebration today when you see your friends succeed. You feel good. We&#8217;re kinda like proud moms. You know that feeling, like you look at our girl, &#8216;She&#8217;s doing it.&#8217; I think it&#8217;s really cool what she did. It&#8217;s something that is 100 percent her, and we&#8217;ve known it for years and years.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Added Kotb, &#8220;It&#8217;s kinda nice to say like, &#8216;Oh wow, now everyone else gets in on the secret.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Guthrie&#8217;s book is a collection of essays, in which she explores the place of faith in everyday life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Mostly What God Does<\/span><\/em><span> is out now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/hoda-kotb-says-shes-been-texting-kelly-rowland-hopes-to-do-a-re-do-after-today-set-drama-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoda Kotb\u00a0is the first one to admit that the Today show&#8217;s dressing rooms are &#8220;tiny.&#8221; They&#8217;re a &#8220;work in progress,&#8221; she says, and perhaps in need of a facelift (like wallpaper!). That being said, she&#8217;s hoping\u00a0Kelly Rowland\u00a0will come back and host the fourth hour of Today following reports that the singer walked off the set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[174,968,991,20,462,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-77632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-entertainment-tonight","10":"tag-kelly-rowland","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-the-today-show","13":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}