‘Today Show’ Host Hoda Kotb & Joel Schiffman Call Off Their Engagement & Split After 8 Years Together

January 31, 2022 by Monique Nicole in TV with 0 Comments

‘Today Show’ Host Hoda Kotb & Joel Schiffman Call Off Their Engagement & Split After 8 Years Together

Sadly, another celebrity couple has broken up! ‘The Today Show’, co- host, Hoda Kotb has called off her engagement and ended her 8 year relationship with boyfriend Joel Schiffman. The 57-year-old morning show anchor made the announcement on Monday’s (Jan.31) taping of Today With Hoda & Jenna. Hoda explained that people started asking about her engagement ring, which has prompted her to open up and reveal the break up.

“People have written in and asked why I wasn’t wearing my engagement ring.. Joel and I have had, we’ve had a lot of prayerful and really meaningful conversations over the holidays, and we decided that we’re better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple.”

She explains their goal is to be great co-parents to their children,

“We decided that we are going to start this New Year and begin it on our new path, as loving parents to our adorable, delightful children and as friends. It’s not like something happened. They say that sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason or a season or for a lifetime, and I feel like ours was meant to be there for a season.”

Hoda says her engagement has been called off. “We decided we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple,” she says. pic.twitter.com/zOJrvhE6wZ

— TODAY with Hoda & Jenna (@HodaAndJenna) January 31, 2022

Hoda Kotb, Joel Schiffman

Hoda Kotb and Joel Schiffman got engaged in November 2019, but like many other couples, their wedding had been put off for several months due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Reportedly, they had been together for six years when Joel proposed. The two share two children: Haley, who turns 5 next month, and Hope, 2. Both children were adopted by the pair.