On Wednesday, Larry Nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison after a grueling trial during which more than 150 women testified about the sexual abuse they’d endured at his hands. Two-time Olympian Aly Raisman’s testimony was some of the most devastating—and was an impressive display of will in the face of her…
An NBC insider tells Page Six that the new face of Today, Hoda Kotb, will make $18 million less than the man she replaced, but the same amount as her co-anchor Savannah Guthrie. Kotb and Guthrie’s reported salaries are $7 million each—nice paychecks, sure, but a far cry from Lauer’s $25 million.
The prophecy came true this morning when Savannah Guthrie revealed that NBC’s best employee Hoda Kotb had officially taken over for Matt Lauer as the permanent co-anchor of Today. “This has to be the most popular decision NBC News have ever made and I’m so thrilled,” Guthrie said.
Here are two facts: 1) Throughout the tail end of Matt Lauer’s tenure at NBC’s Today, ABC’s Good Morning America beat it in the ratings, and 2) In the two weeks since Lauer was kicked to the curb for sexual misconduct and replaced by Hoda Kotb, Today’s viewership has surpassed GMA’s by a considerable margin.
“All anybody’s talking about is these NFL protests and that’s...unfortunate,” said Kathie Lee Gifford Monday on the Today show. Oh it it? Tell us more. “I understand that it’s on the minds of a lot of people but there are so many problems in the world.”
Apple finally released the long-awaited update to iOS this week, and it’s filled with so many exciting new features that you may have a hard time making sense of everything new you can do with your compatible iPhones and iPads. After spending a day exploring all the new bells and whistles, I think I’ve found my…
In today’s Tweet Beat, Wilmer Valderrama gives some depressing Christmas advice, somebody please help Hoda and I would follow Uzo Aduba anywhere.
This morning on Today, Kathie Lee Gifford told the kind of cute little story that’s perfect for a Friday. One day, Gifford said, in the before time when smartphones didn’t exist, she was waiting to meet her least punctual friend for lunch at “one of the best restaurants in New York.” After sitting alone for some time,…
Friday morning on Today, Kathie Lee did something strange. Though the show’s fourth hour is made up almost exclusively of Kathie Lee doing strange things, they rarely make for such compelling GIFs. What do you think she’s doing in the above image: re-enacting a particularly odd labor? Attempting yoga but not paying…
On Friday morning on Today, Hoda and Kathie Lee discussed what they listen to when falling asleep. Hoda said she preferred wordless music and that pianist Jim Brickman’s albums were her go-to ‘go to sleep’ artist. Kathie’s favorite lullabies were, expectedly, a little different. “Mine is one of my own, of course,”…
Kathie Lee Gifford's original musical comedy Today: The Musical premiered today on NBC, and holy god am I glad my job doesn't require me to literally dance to the whims of a drunk talking head.
In today's Tweet Beat, Hoda celebrates her birthday in a style very much befitting her, Reese Witherspoon is trying to make flower hats happen and Michael Kors cosigns the denim on denim trend.
Ladies, there’s another battle in this feminism war: Sleep. And who gets it. That’s right, a biological necessity now a luxury.
Today show lushes Kathie Lee and Hoda hung out with Andy Cohen on Watch What Happens Live last night, and played a fun game called "Encylo-Kathie Lee-dia," which tested how well KLG knows modern slang terms.
The totally reputable National Enquirer has reportedly obtained a shot of Zac Efron collapsed in the Thompson Hotel on January 3rd after an overdose of "hillbilly heroin" Oxy, obtained during a batshit night of drinking. Efron reportedly got the pills from the street and requested all party guests to buy forty for…
Two days before the 2013 Miss America pageant, Miss New York Nina Dalvuluri —the self-proclaimed Miss Diversity — was allegedly caught on tape calling outgoing Miss America Mallory Hagan "fat as fuck."* Keep it classy, ladies.
You know, there were plenty of super-important celebrity news stories we could kick this morning off with (K-Fed got married! and Angelina Jolie's kids are unimpressed by their mom's cinematic villainy!), and while I'm quite sure we're all familiar with the vicissitudes of morning talk show fate that paired…
The daytime talk show Russian roulette continues: Hoda Kotb, who hosts the fourth hour of the Today show with the brilliant mind that is Kathie Lee, has allegedly been approached to leave her post and join ABC's Barbara Walters's five-headed monstrosity The View.
This is not good. Sam Lufti, best known as the bizarre and controlling former manager of 2007 brokedown-palace edition Britney Spears, has got his claws into Amanda Bynes. Apparently he bought her the plane ticket back to L.A. after the bong-throwing incident and she's spoken to him on the phone since she was placed…
