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John Cena is not only part of the cast of Fast X but he will also be making an appearance in Greta Gerwig’s Barbie as a merman. The former WWE star made an appearance on the Today show where he talked about how he was cast in the film about the Mattel doll. “It was a happy accident and I think…

Savannah Guthrie abruptly left her spot on this morning’s Today show after testing positive for Covid around 7:30 a.m. ET. Sheinelle Jones, co-host of Today‘s third hour, provided an on-air update at the end of the show’s 8 a.m. hour, saying, “It has been an interesting morning for us. As we said…

Hoda Kotb continues missing from Today and Today with Hoda and Jenna after a week-long absence from the NBC morning shows. The television host was last seen on the Feb. 20 episode of the fourth hour of Today with co-host Jenna Bush Hager. However, that episode was pre-recorded as it aired on…

Jenna Bush Hager is the latest on-air personality to test positive for Covid, forcing her to miss Wednesday’s Today with Hoda and Jenna. “We should point out, by the way, Jenna’s not here. Jenna got Covid, but she is doing great,” Hoda Kotb told viewers at the start of the show. She said that she talked to Hager on…

Talia Parkinson-Jones has been named executive producer of NBC’s Today with Hoda & Jenna. Parkinson-Jones most recently was consulting producer of Facebook Watch’s Red Table Talk and executive producer of Tamron Hall. She launched and served as co-executive producer of the latter show when it debuted in 2019. Today wit…

Let’s go, y’all! Jenna Bush Hager made her permanent co-hosting debut on NBC’s Today this morning, and if her choreographed kickoff with Hoda Kotb didn’t come off exactly as planned, the rookie seemed to take it in stride. “We’ve been trying to figure out what our little pregame is gonna be,” Kotb said early on during…