Who Is Hoda Kotb Dating? What We Know About Former ‘Today’ Star’s Love Life
Hoda Kotb may have left the Today show at the beginning of this year, but you can’t keep her away from the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade! The former morning show host is returning to NBC to host the big event with Savannah Guthrie and Al Roker on November 27.
With Kotb living life a bit more out of the spotlight in recent months, fans have gotten less frequent updates on her personal life, which she was always happy to share during her time on Today. Scroll down for the latest on her love life.
Who is Hoda Kotb dating?
Kotb is not currently known to be dating anyone. She has gone on dates since ending her relationship with Joel Schiffman in January 2022, but she does not appear to have a boyfriend at the moment.
In May, Kotb opened up to People about dating and said it wasn’t a priority as she adjusted to her family’s new life in the suburbs, her kids’ new school, and the next chapter of her life without Today.
However, she had an optimistic outlook for the future. “When it happens will be the time it’s supposed to happen,” Kotb said. “When things are supposed to end, they end. And when things are supposed to begin, they begin. But you have to be wide open because if you’re not, it’s not happening. So I think that chapter is yet to come, but I know it’s coming. And I’m excited for that chapter.”
Did Hoda Kotb get back together with Joel Schiffman?
No, Kotb and Schiffman are not back together, but they have an amicable relationship and still spend time together as coparents to their adopted daughters, Haley and Hope. Most recently, Kotb posted an Instagram photo on November 3 of Schiffman and the girls after they all spent time together on Halloween weekend.
Kotb and Schiffman started dating in 2013 after meeting at a Wall Street event that she’d been speaking at. “I asked someone from the place — I asked, ‘Will you find out his situation?’ Because I didn’t know anything about him,” Kotb later shared. “I knew he didn’t have a wedding ring, but that’s all I knew. Then she emailed him and he emailed me and asked me out on a date.”
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The now-exes went public with their romance in 2015, adopted Haley in 2017, and then Hope in 2019. Kotb announced their engagement on Today in November 2019, and then their split on another episode of the morning show in January 2022.
Of the decision to end the relationship, Kotb explained on Today in September 2025, “I went to this retreat and I had, kind of, an epiphany about my life. And I was realizing that you can love someone, like I loved him very much, and still do to this day, but that person isn’t right for you in that moment. And you can say to yourself, ‘Wow, I’m ready to try to get other buckets of mine filled.'”
She also confirmed that she and Schiffman are still on good terms today. “I have barbecues in the backyard, and Joel comes,” she continued. “We invite neighbors over. We have kids running around. There’s a dog. We decided that we’re better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year … on our new path as loving parents to our adorable, delightful children, and as friends.”
Kotb told Good Housekeeping that Schiffman is currently working part-time in New York and part-time in Colorado, but when he’s in town, he’s a present father. “When he’s here, he walks the girls to school, and he comes over for dinner,” she explained. “So we have a great situation.”
How many times has Kotb been married?
Kotb has been married one time. While she and Schiffman never made it down the aisle, she previously wed Burzis Kanga in 2005. They divorced in 2008.
In her 2025 memoir, Jump and Find Joy: Embracing Change in Every Season of Life, Kotb wrote, “We let the idea that we should be married by now influence us. So, instead of us taking the opportunity to part ways and stay solo, he came out to visit and proposed during a Central Park horse ride … and I said yes.”
The journalist said marriage seemed like a “logical step” at the time and that she was “comfortable” in the relationship.
“It wasn’t going to go the distance,” she admitted. “I don’t regret that time in my life because every experience gets you a little bit closer to where you are today — where you were meant to be. But I bet if you could have paused us midair, as we were slipping into marriage, to ask, ‘Hey, is this what you really want?’ We would have looked at each other and said. ‘Naaah.’”
Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, Thursday, November 27, 8:30 a.m. ET, NBC
