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Hoda Kotb Professes “Great Love” For Kelly Rowland Despite ‘Today’ Walk-Out


Hoda Kotb has no hard feelings for Kelly Rowland despite the latter’s no-show for a planned guest-hosting gig during the fourth hour of Today last Thursday. “I just want to say this,” Kotb said on-air today. “I have great love and admiration for Kelly Rowland. I adore her and I want her to come back […]

Kelly Rowland attends a screening of Tyler Perry's 'Mea Culpa' in New York February 15Gotham/GC Images Hoda Kotb has no hard feelings for Kelly Rowland despite the latter’s no-show for a planned guest-hosting gig during the fourth hour of Today last Thursday. Last Thursday, Rowland had appeared on Today earlier in the morning to promote her new Netflix movie Mea Culpa, and she was set to fill in for Kotb’s usual co-host, Jenna Bush, for the fourth hour. News quickly spread that Rowland was unhappy with the small dressing room she’d been assigned, and so left the studio, leaving singer Rita Ora, a guest on the Today episode, to fill in at the last minute.

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