Jason Segel Made ‘In the present day”s Hoda Kotb Cry On-Air with the Sweetest Praise

Jason Segel is ensuring Hoda Kotb is aware of her time at In the present day was appreciated. 

An Instagram Threads submit by In the present day on Wednesday, Oct. 16 confirmed the Shrinking actor, 44, sharing some variety phrases with the daytime tv host, 60.

“I’m gonna miss you while you’re gone,” Segel stated, referring to Kotb just lately asserting her departure from the NBC Information morning present.

“I simply need you to know — these interviews have been a few of the better of my entire profession, so I’m actually grateful to know you,” he added. Kotb seemed to be genuinely touched by his phrases. 

A teary-eyed Kotb replied, “Wow, thanks,” earlier than getting as much as hug her visitor. 

On Sept. 26, the famed broadcast journalist revealed she could be leaving this system after 17 years of anchoring the present and 25 years whole working for the community. 

The emotional farewell was shared in a letter to workers explaining “my coronary heart is throughout” as she tried to seek out the precise phrases to say goodbye.

“I do know I’m making the precise determination, however it’s a painful one. And also you all are the rationale why. They are saying two issues might be proper on the similar time, and I’m feeling that so deeply proper now. I really like you and it’s time for me to depart the present,” Kotb continued.

Throughout a dwell episode that day, she shared that her cause behind the huge determination was to spend extra time together with her daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 4, who “want and deserve a much bigger slice of my time pie.”

Kotb shared that she’s going to stay with the present till the start of subsequent yr. 

After asserting her exit, Kotb spoke solely to PEOPLE about how she knew it was the precise time to maneuver on to the subsequent chapter. 

“I’ve form of been considering, questioning, enthusiastic about what I wished this subsequent chunk of my life to appear to be as I turned 60. And I like journey, I like new beginnings. I am a dawn individual and never a sundown individual, and I used to be questioning, what does it appear to be for me?” she stated.

She additionally touched on Hope’s February 2023 medical disaster.

“We’re in a spot the place Hope is prospering. She is bettering, we’re watching her, and I feel that as time goes on, we’ll have a greater deal with on it, however we’re already seeing nice variations,” Kotb instructed PEOPLE. “Now we have actually wonderful care, I’ve people who find themselves serving to us out. I really feel like she is discovering regular footing.”

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She weighed her choices, however in the end went with being there for her ladies, who’re in second grade and kindergarten. 

“It does make extra sense to remain at NBC. I am financially safe and I’d have job safety. I imply, why would you ever not try this? However I have been watching my youngsters and I used to be pondering to myself, I ponder what I am lacking?”

Kotb instructed PEOPLE she wished her time “to be crammed with extra of them.”

Viewers can catch Segel in season 2 of the Apple+ TV present on Oct. 16, 2024.