Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb are apparently validating Kelly Rowland’s issues in regards to the Today display dressing rooms.
“We need a remodel. We need Extreme Makeover: Today Show Dressing Room Edition,” Guthrie, 52, joked to Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday, February 21. “We are in a ancient studio, 1A. It’s the similar studio that has been used for decades. It’s unbelievable and it’s iconic, but it surely’s previous.”
She went on to say that those that enter the studio “get the good with the unhealthy” when waiting in the dressing rooms.
“If you wish to have historical past, every so often you’re gonna have a couple of little chips of paint coming off the wall,” Guthrie, who stated she hopes everyone looks like they’re receiving a “warm hug” as a Today show guest, persevered. “We attempt to do our highest.”
Guthrie’s feedback came days after it was once reported that Rowland, 43, swiftly left the Today display set after having an issue with the studio’s dressing room. After being interviewed by means of Guthrie previous in the show, Rowland was once set to fill in for Jenna Bush Hager as a cohost with Kotb, 59, for Today’s fourth hour. (Rita Ora took over for Rowland with just a second’s notice.) There was other speculation that Guthrie bringing up Beyoncé several occasions during Rowland’s interview may have irritated Rowland.
“I was bummed. I love Kelly. We love Kelly,” Kotb admitted to ET on Wednesday. “She’s one in every of our all-time faves, and there’s no one who’s more gracious or swish than Kelly … we’ve been texting back and forth and I gave her a choice. I stated, ‘Come on, girl. We’re waiting. We’ll do a re-do.’ So, optimistically we’ll do a re-do.”
When asked concerning the dressing rooms in particular, Kotb admitted that they’re “tiny” and a “work in development.” However, the anchor explained that it adds to the show’s “attraction.”
“If you’ve ever been backstage [on] Broadway and long gone to a type of dressing rooms, you’re like in these tiny rooms for months and months,” Kotb continued. “That’s more or less what the Today display is like. You walk round and it’s such a beautiful place, but there’s tiny little spaces.”
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News of Rowland’s apparent departure from the Today display set got here on Friday, February 16. During the printed that morning, neither Kotb nor Ora, 33, mentioned the rumored dressing room debacle.
While Rowland hasn’t publicly addressed the scandal, her rep, Yvette Noel-Schure, shared a statement with ET on Tuesday, February 20.
“After 28 years of realizing her, Kelly Rowland stays one of the kindest, maximum amiable people I've ever met and feature had the blessing to represent,” she stated.
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