Hoda Kotb seemed happier than ever as she reunited with Kevin Costner on the 2025 Tremendous Bowl.
“Oh what funnnnn!!!” Kotb, 60, captioned her Instagram submit on Sunday, February 9. The previous Immediately host shared a number of pictures from her time in New Orleans whereas watching the Philadelphia Eagles defeat the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs 40-22 in Tremendous Bowl LIX, together with a pic of herself and Costner, 70, smiling from ear to ear.
Savannah Guthrie was fast to depart a cheeky touch upon her former cohost’s submit, alluding to a romantic pairing between Kotb and Costner.
“New couple alert,” Guthrie, 53, wrote, tagging fellow Immediately persona Jenna Bush Hager.
“We’ve got been ready for this second!” Bush Hager, 43, mentioned, including a coronary heart emoji. (Followers responded to each feedback, agreeing with the ladies and “transport” Kotb and Costner.)
Nathan Congleton/NBC Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager shaped a powerful bond each on and off the small display screen. Kotb and Bush Hager joined NBC’s Immediately in 2007 and 2009, respectively, and went on to cohost the present’s fourth hour collectively following Kathie Lee Gifford’s 2019 exit. For over 5 years, the duo made followers […]
The jokes a couple of potential romance between Kotb and Costner began in June 2024 after the Yellowstone actor appeared on Hoda & Jenna. Viewers thought sparks have been flying between the 2, which Kotb addressed the next month on an episode of Watch What Occurs Dwell With Andy Cohen.
“How do you are feeling about viewers transport you and Kevin Costner after he appeared on Immediately final month and have the 2 of you related since?” one viewer requested through the reside present. Kotb mentioned that she had “by no means, ever heard” in regards to the feedback till then.
The next day, Kotb quipped on Hoda & Jenna that followers wanting her up to now Costner was “unbelievable.” (Kotb was married to Burzis Kanga from 2005 to 2008 earlier than getting engaged to Joel Schiffman. The exes, who coparent daughters Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, cut up in January 2022 after eight years collectively.)
“Individuals have been coming as much as me on the streets,” Bush Hager defined. “I’m telling you, individuals have been like, ‘It’s best to arrange Hoda and Kevin Costner.’ And I used to be like, ‘Wow, I didn’t understand they have been flirting behind my again.’”
Nathan Congleton/NBC Hoda Kotb’s tenure on the Immediately present was filled with many memorable moments. The TV persona introduced in September 2024 that she could be departing the enduring morning present after 26 years on NBC, 16 years as a Immediately cohost and 7 years as Savannah Guthrie’s co-anchor. “I simply turned 60, and it […]
Kotb mentioned there was “no flirting” between herself and Costner, who cut up from Christine Baumgartner final 12 months after 18 years collectively.
“I did love when he had his individuals who have been right here they usually have been simply speaking about him, they have been like, ‘He’s so humorous,’” Kotb recalled, referring to those that work with the actor. “They usually have been describing, like, he likes to eat baked beans out of the can. Like, he’s only a common particular person.”
Bush Hager joked, “The baked beans out of a can is what turns you on?”
Kotb was fast to make clear, “No. I identical to that he wasn’t fancy. I believed that was actually cool.”
