Overview
- The hour will relaunch as TODAY with Jenna & Sheinelle, replacing the Jenna & Friends format used since Hoda Kotb’s exit.
- Jones will move from co-hosting TODAY’s third hour, while Craig Melvin, Al Roker and Dylan Dreyer remain on the 9 a.m. show.
- Jenna Bush Hager announced the news on air in an emotional reveal, calling Jones her “forever friend.”
- Jones said Hoda Kotb called her the night before with brief encouragement, describing it as “45 seconds of wisdom.”
- Jones returned to TODAY in September after her husband Uche Ojeh’s death from brain cancer, and NBC executives praised the pairing as an exciting new chapter.