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Sheinelle Jones Wipes Tears From Her Eyes After Hoda Kotb Announces ‘Today’ Exit

Sheinelle Jones got emotional and wiped tears away from her eyes after longtime cohost Hoda Kotb announced her exit from ‘Today’ after 16 years with the show.

This is the right time for me to move on,” she explained, adding that her daughters, Haley, 7, and Hope, 5, also played a factor in the decision. Today also posted the letter that Hoda wrote to her fellow staff members to share her plans to leave the show. “I saw it all so clearly: my broadcast career has been beyond meaningful, a new decade of my life lies ahead, and now my daughters and my mom need and deserve a bigger slice of my time pie.

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