Hoda Kotb and Al Roker
Kwaku Alston/NBCUniversal; Virginia Sherwood/NBCCelebrities are just like Us — always ready for the weekend.
“Sheinelle [Jones] And Jacob [Soboroff] are here. Hoda [Kotb] And Craig [Melvin] get a little jump on the weekend,” Savannah Guthrie announced at the top Today‘s Friday, May 3, episode. The first two hours of the NBC morning show were also missing Carson Daly And Al Rokerwhose “Popstart” and weather segments were done by Soboroff, 41, and Dylan Dreyer.
Dreyer, 42, was not in New York City for Friday’s episode as she traveled to Kentucky with NBC’s Mike Tirico to cover the 2024 Kentucky Derby on Saturday, May 4. (Soboroff and Jill Martin joined Jones, 46, for the third hour of Today.)
Some of the missing Today hosts gave fans a glimpse on social media of how they got a head start on their early weekend. For her part, Kotb followed up on the episode of Thursday, May 2 Today by rocking out with friends at a Rolling Stones concert.
“Happening now!” she captioned one Instagram video of the legendary band performing their hit ‘Start Me Up’ at Jazz Fest 2024 in New Orleans. In addition to post a selfie Kotb also shared photos and clips of with her friends Mick Jagger singing “Time Is on My Side”. Irma Thomas Nola.
“In 1964, Mick Jagger was listening to the radio and he heard a song called ‘Time is on my side’. He said I love that song… who wrote it? who sings it? that person was the queen of New Orleans music… Irma Thomas, ‘Kotb caption of a photo of the pair on stage. “So today Irma Thomas and Mick Jagger held hands and sang it again ❤️.”
Carson Daly and Craig Melvin
Nathan Congleton/NBCRoker, 69, encouraged his Instagram followers on Thursday to “take these steps” ahead of Friday. “I can tell you that I didn’t feel like getting on a treadmill this morning. I had to have a little talk with myself and I said, ‘Come on, dude. Let’s do it,” he said in the video of his training. “And now, twenty minutes later, I have things done, ready to start the day. And you?”
Although Melvin, 44, didn’t share his weekend plans on social media, he revealed that he will be traveling to New Jersey on Monday, May 6, for a stop on his children’s book tour. said Thursday Instagram video. (Melvin’s new picture book, I’m proud of youhits shelves on Tuesday, May 7.)
Daly, 50, has been absent Today since Thursday. A day earlier he sat down for one one-on-one interview with golf legend Tiger Woodsin which he recalled watching the athlete practice when they were teenagers participating in a golf tournament.
“It was so hot. [None] of the teenagers wanted to go out. We’re all having lunch and you were the only one on the driving range and you were hitting balls. You were the only one,” Daly recalled. “And your father was out there and we all looked around and said, ‘Can you believe this kid?’ That boy is crazy. ”
