Hoda Kotb & Fiance Joel Schiffman Split: Couple Breaks Up After 8 Years Together

Hoda Kotb announced her relationship with Joel Schiffman is over on ‘Today.’ She said they ‘are better as friends and parents’ than as a couple.

Hoda Kotb‘s wedding to fiance Joel Schiffman is off. The TV journalist, 57, announced on Monday (Jan. 31) that after eight years together, she and Joel, 63, have broken up. “Joel and I have had a lot of prayerful and meaningful conversations over the holidays and we decided that we are better as friends and parents than we are as an engaged couple, so we decided we are going to start this new year on our new path as loving parents to our adorably delightful children and as friends,” Hoda said on the third hour of Today, according to People.

“Its not like something happened,” she added. “They say sometimes relationships are meant to be there for a reason, a season or a lifetime, this was for a season.”

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