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Hoda Kotb stops by The Ellen DeGeneres Show, airing on Wednesday (January 29) and opens up about her recent engagement to her longtime boyfriend, Joel Schiffman!

The 55-year-old Today show host also talks to Ellen about her two daughters – Haley Joy, 2, and Hope Catherine – how they have brought clarity to her life, and whether she wants to have more kids.

“I don’t know. I’m not 100 [percent] sure,” Hoda says after a lengthy pause when Ellen asks her about the potential of expanding her family. “I’m a sign person — I always look for signs — and I feel like there are some signs out there that are pointing to [having more kids].”

“I was scribbling in my journal and I was asking myself that question and I wrote in there, ‘I’m wondering if we should.’ And I wrote, ‘Do we have enough love?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes,’” Hoda continues. “And I said, ‘Do we have enough time?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’ And I said, ‘Would our family be more enhanced?’ And I wrote, ‘Yes.’”

“So I was thinking maybe the answer’s yes,” Hoda says. “And plus, when you’re parents later in life… watching Haley and Hope together, all I really want is for them to have someone to hold their hand forever, and that’s it. That’s all I want. I was scared, because we’re older, like maybe [it’s too late]. But then I realized they’ll have each other.”

Jessica Simpson is getting candid about her past.

The 39-year-old singer and entrepreneur sat down for an interview with Hoda Kotb for TODAY Wednesday (January 29) about her memoir Open Book, out on February 4.

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“At the time I didn’t really understand what was happening. I knew something was wrong. I knew it was wrong what was going on. This was a very close person, and she was being abused. It happened throughout a long time in my life,” she said of being abused by a family friend at the age of six.

“I was a preacher’s daughter. I was taught to be a virgin until I got married, and so I never wanted to share these sexual things that were happening because I didn’t want to hurt anybody.”

She went on to explain how she finally worked up the courage to say something.

“My parents’ reaction — they did the best that they could. That’s a heavy thing to hear from your child. They ignored it with their words, for sure, but they took action, and I never had to do the sleepovers again. I never had to go back.”

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Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are opening up about weighing themselves live on TV.

During a recent episode of Today, the co-hosts decided to step onto a scale in front of viewers to reveal their weights before they began intermittent fasting.

At the time, Hoda weighed 158lbs and Jenna weighed 171lbs.

Now looking back at it, they realized they didn’t think things through, and that it brought up all struggles with body image.

“I, for a second, was transported to when I was like a chubby little girl and found a scale in my mom’s room and weighed myself. And, I, for a moment, was stuck there,” Jenna, who just had a baby in August, shared on Monday’s episode of Today. “All I heard was that. It made me feel kind of bad. I weighed myself, the last time, when I was in college, when I weighted a lot less, so it was a shock, it really was.”

Hoda added: “Look, we feel grateful. Don’t get us wrong. We’re healthy, my God no one knows better how much that matters. There’s something about standing on the scale and watching the number, like, not stop. I was like, ‘Wait, I don’t remember this number.’”

Hoda then went on to say that she and Jenna are now on this health-focused journey to feel better for their kids.

“It taught us a little lesson,” Hoda said. “I do think we’re doing this because we want to feel better. We want to feel better for our girls. We want to feel happier.”

“We teach our girls that they’re so much more than the way we look,” Jenna added. “That they’re brilliant and interesting and funny and smart and caring and compassionate and that there’s so much more in life than a number on the scale.”

Hoda Kotb is engaged to her longtime financier boyfriend Joel Schiffman!

The 55-year-old Today show host confirmed the news on the morning show on Monday (November 25) and showed off her ring! See the photos in the gallery below.

Hoda spoke about the proposal, while happened when they were on a beach vacation.

Hoda and Joel haven’t revealed the news to her two daughters, Haley Joy, 2, and Hope Catherine, who was adopted in April, just yet.

Watch the video for all the details on the proposal – and congrats to the happy couple on the wonderful news!

Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager are beginning their intermittent fasting experiment, and they’re tracking their progress by weighing themselves on live TV.

The 55-year-old and 37-year-old Today co-stars stepped onto a scale in front of viewers on Monday (November 18) to begin their fast.

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For Hoda, the scale read 158 pounds, and for Jenna, 171 pounds.

“This is why I don’t really weigh myself…I think I weigh twice as much as my sister. Like, two Barbaras could fit in me,” Jenna joked.

The two will begin their intermittent fasting diet, in which they don’t eat solid foods for about 16 hours per day.

“We’re doing it to be healthy, and to also improve our brain health and everything else,” Jenna explained in the segment.

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The TODAY gang went all out for Halloween!

In celebration of Halloween on Thursday morning (October 31), the anchors of the NBC morning show pulled out all the stops to celebrate the holiday with their theme, Everybody Dance TODAY, which saw them dressing up as the most famous dancers from TV and movies.

Al Roker and Craig Melvin went as The Fresh Prince of Bel Air‘s Carlton and Will, Peter Alexander danced it out as Kevin Bacon in Footloose, Dylan Dreyer mimicked Elaine’s (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) memorably awkward moves from Seinfeld, Willie Geist and Jenna Bush Hager brought some Dirty Dancing into the mix, Sheinelle Jones turned it out as Janet Jackson in her “Rhythm Nation” phase, Hoda Kotb channeled John Travolta as Tony in Saturday Night Fever, and lastly, Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly closed it out as Sandy and Danny from Grease!

Some of the hosts later got special messages from the stars they portrayed, including Jackson, Olivia Newton John, who portrayed Grease‘s Sandy, and Alfonso Ribeiro, the original Carlton.

News broke overnight that one of disgraced Today show host Matt Lauer‘s accusers came forward to say she had been anally raped by him during the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. Now, his former co-hosts Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb are reacting to this new development.

“I feel like we owe it to our viewers to pause for a moment,” Savannah said during the Today show broadcast on Wednesday (October 9). “This is shocking and appalling. I honestly don’t even know what to say about it. I want to say I know it wasn’t easy for our colleague Brooke to come forward then, it’s not easy now and we support her and any women who have come forward with claims. And it’s just very painful for all of us at NBC and who are at the Today show. It’s very, very, very difficult.”

Hoda added, “It’s like you feel like you’ve known someone for 12 years … and all of a sudden a door opens up and it’s a part of them you didn’t know.”

“I think I speak for all of us: we are disturbed to our core,” Savannah added.

Matt Lauer was fired by NBC back in 2017, and at the time, Savannah and Hoda broke the news to the world.