Here comes Craig Melvin!
The journalist revealed on Thursday that he will be taking over for Hoda Kotb when she exits the “Today” show on Jan. 10.
“CM is the new anchor of the today show!” Savannah Guthrie gushed.
The update came nearly two months after Kotb, 60, announced her shock departure to viewers after 26 years with NBC.
“I decided this is the right time for me to kind of move on,” she said in September. “And so with all that being said, this is the hardest thing in the world.
“I’m not gonna be here past the first of the year,” the former “Dateline” correspondent continued before clarifying, “I’m gonna stay in the NBC family, but it’s kind of a big deal for me.”
As rumors swirled about her possible replacement, Kotb joked as recently as Monday that they didn’t have a clue who would step in.
Kotb joined NBC News in 1998, becoming the co-host of the “Today” show’s fourth hour nearly one decade later with Kathie Lee Gifford.
Kotb has co-hosted alongside Jenna Bush Hager since Gifford’s exit in 2019.
Additionally, Kotb has been Savannah Guthrie’s “Today” show co-anchor since 2018.
This is a developing story…
