{"id":12893,"date":"2018-01-09T17:10:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/?p=12893"},"modified":"2018-01-09T17:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T22:10:20","slug":"savannah-guthrie-hoda-kotb-share-moment-prayer-breaking-matt-lauer-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/2018\/01\/savannah-guthrie-hoda-kotb-share-moment-prayer-breaking-matt-lauer-news.html","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb Share a Moment of Prayer Before Breaking Matt Lauer News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/idolchatter\/files\/2018\/01\/Savannah_Guthrie_Hoda_Kotb_Nov_29_2017.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12894 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/87\/2018\/01\/Savannah_Guthrie_Hoda_Kotb_Nov_29_2017-300x200.png\" alt=\"Savannah_Guthrie_Hoda_Kotb_Nov_29_2017\" width=\"581\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late last year, news of sexual allegations against Today show host Matt Lauer shook the nation. Viewers and fellow Today show hosts alike tried to process the accusations against their once well-loved and respected colleague.<\/p>\n<p>News recently came out that Hoda Kotb would be promoted to co-anchor of Today, replacing Lauer who was dismissed from the position in November. Kotb sat beside Savannah Guthrie on Tuesday making her official debut as part of the co-anchor team.<\/p>\n<p>Kotb and Guthrie revealed the news together the day after Lauer was fired, and both appeared to be visibly shaken by the accusations. In a later issue of People magazine, Guthrie stated &#8220;\u201cI remember reading something later that said I had grabbed Hoda\u2019s hand, and of course that\u2019s not something you plan. That\u2019s just something you do because you have a real friend, and you need to hold her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes before going on air, Kotb she says she walked into Guthrie\u2019s dressing room, and \u201cwe said a prayer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t forget it. I said to Savannah after that prayer, \u2018We\u2019re gonna make it through this together,\u2019\u201d added Kotb. \u201cWe just sort of sat there and I was sort of on autopilot, I don\u2019t really remember a lot of it, but I do remember just sort of holding onto Savannah and saying it just wasn\u2019t in our hands anymore, it was in God\u2019s hands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair have found a silver lining in all the aftermath, saying that the Today staff has drawn a lot closer of the last few weeks. Hoda said she feels a responsibility to make sure the \u201cincredible staff\u201d she and Savannah work with are coping with the changes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe ask how they\u2019re doing, we want them to feel good, we give them hugs,\u201d she said. \u201cJust so they remember this is bigger than one person, it\u2019s bigger than Matt, it\u2019s bigger than me, it\u2019s bigger than Savannah, it\u2019s bigger than all of us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You pull together and you focus on the foundation and what keeps you together. I think that\u2019s what we\u2019ve all been trying to do,&#8221; Guthrie said. &#8220;And for me, I just am trying to get comfortable with how complicated the feelings around all of it are, and it is complicated. And just trying to have love and compassion for everyone concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late last year, news of sexual allegations against Today show host Matt Lauer shook the nation. Viewers and fellow Today show hosts alike tried to process the accusations against their once well-loved and respected colleague. News recently came out that Hoda Kotb would be promoted to co-anchor of Today, replacing Lauer who was dismissed from&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":600,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fbia_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,3374,1],"tags":[141,1489,327,3579],"class_list":["post-12893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","category-news","category-television","tag-today-show","tag-hoda-kotb","tag-matt-lauer","tag-savannah-guthrie"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb Share a Moment of Prayer Before Breaking Matt Lauer News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Just minutes before going on air, Kotb she says she walked into Guthrie\u2019s dressing room, and \u201cwe 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